Taliaferro County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

2 precincts · 884 votes cast

Harris · D+15

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	D	+14.9%	507	375	884
2020	D	+21.7%	561	360	928
2016	D	+21.9%	545	349	897
2012	D	+32.5%	636	323	963
2008	D	+30.7%	643	339	990
2004	D	+29.1%	612	335	951
2000	D	+34.3%	556	271	832
1996	D	+42.9%	615	235	886
1992	D	+43.9%	755	269	1,106
1988	D	+21.0%	469	306	777
1984	D	+26.7%	550	318	868
1980	D	+41.9%	670	270	954
1976	D	+52.0%	748	236	984
1972	R	−22.3%	372	585	957
1968	D	+31.5%	678	232	1,418
1964	D	+30.2%	628	337	965
1960	D	+63.1%	655	148	803
1956	D	+57.8%	599	160	759
1952	D	+78.9%	873	103	976
1948	D	+80.6%	504	21	599
1944	D	+97.0%	389	6	395
1940	D	+92.8%	507	19	526
1936	D	+93.9%	552	14	573
1932	D	+98.8%	503	3	506
1928	D	+77.0%	446	58	504
1924	D	+76.5%	228	4	293
1920	D	+93.0%	330	12	342
1916	D	+89.9%	255	7	276
1912	D	+81.3%	242	7	289
1908	D	+3.2%	235	216	586
1904	D	+27.9%	377	184	692
1900	D	+29.8%	216	100	389
1896	R	−7.5%	221	261	536
1892	D	+20.9%	298	76	1,061
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

36.7%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 47.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.9%

85+

6.0%

2.7%

75–84

7.3%

65–74

4.4%

2.8%

55–64

5.7%

4.8%

45–54

8.1%

8.3%

35–44

4.2%

3.8%

25–34

6.7%

3.4%

18–24

4.1%

7.3%

5–17

6.7%

3.4%

1.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$52,500

Taliaferro County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Taliaferro County$52,500

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.4%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

19.1%

Methodist

10.4%

Mainline Protestant

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 70.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Taliaferro County's roughly 2,000 residents make it the smallest county by population in Georgia, yet it has returned Democratic presidential margins consistently above ten points, a pattern driven largely by its majority-Black electorate in the rural Piedmont.

The Democratic margin in Taliaferro County peaked at ninety-nine points in 1932. By 1976 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was fifteen points, the most Democratic-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Taliaferro County's median household income of $52,500 sits well below state and national norms, and 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Talbot County and Phillips County.

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Taliaferro County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.