Telfair County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 4,214 votes cast

Trump · R+39

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−39.3%	1,274	2,930	4,214
2020	R	−30.9%	1,487	2,825	4,333
2016	R	−30.0%	1,313	2,450	3,796
2012	R	−15.6%	1,805	2,480	4,338
2008	R	−14.3%	1,862	2,486	4,374
2004	R	−15.4%	1,590	2,171	3,776
2000	D	+2.4%	1,777	1,693	3,493
1996	D	+21.4%	1,856	1,143	3,332
1992	D	+21.8%	2,238	1,324	4,192
1988	R	−1.1%	1,765	1,805	3,595
1984	D	+1.7%	2,049	1,980	4,029
1980	D	+38.7%	2,700	1,173	3,941
1976	D	+69.5%	3,534	637	4,171
1972	R	−53.1%	687	2,245	2,932
1968	D	+7.5%	1,038	720	4,260
1964	R	−1.1%	1,872	1,914	3,786
1960	D	+57.4%	2,922	791	3,713
1956	D	+75.9%	2,075	284	2,359
1952	D	+83.5%	2,695	243	2,938
1948	D	+56.5%	712	75	1,127
1944	D	+74.4%	1,187	174	1,361
1940	D	+85.3%	1,391	104	1,508
1936	D	+81.1%	1,158	121	1,279
1932	D	+88.0%	746	45	797
1928	D	+72.2%	2,057	332	2,389
1924	D	+63.6%	1,382	264	1,757
1920	D	+93.3%	1,069	37	1,106
1916	D	+90.4%	773	25	827
1912	D	+92.0%	695	20	734
1908	D	+67.2%	613	29	869
1904	D	+87.3%	781	44	844
1900	D	+63.4%	568	122	704
1896	D	+23.4%	580	350	985
1892	D	+56.7%	703	190	904
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%

Polish

0.7%

African American

29.6%

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: 43.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

1.8%

2.5%

75–84

3.1%

5.9%

65–74

5.4%

6.0%

55–64

7.1%

6.2%

45–54

6.1%

10.1%

35–44

6.3%

8.9%

25–34

3.8%

6.6%

18–24

3.8%

5.7%

5–17

6.4%

2.6%

1.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$50,929

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

Telfair County$50,929

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

24.1%

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

15.7%

Methodist

11.4%

Other Christian

6.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.9%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.4%

Mainline Protestant

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 62.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Telfair's rural, majority-Black population coexists with some of the widest Republican presidential margins in Georgia, a pattern common across the state's economically distressed wiregrass and coastal plain counties.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Telfair County peaked at ninety-three points in 1920; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of fifteen points. By 2024, the margin had settled into deep Republican territory.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Telfair County's median household income of $50,929 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 24% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Taylor County and Ben Hill County.

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For one hundred eight years, Telfair County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.