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1876–2024
Thomas County, Georgia
Thomas County·Georgia

Thomas County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

A south Georgia county where Republican margins have held deep for decades

18762024·38 elections
Thomas County, Georgia · John Trainor · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+24
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
45,777
2024 ACS
Most similar
Ouachita Parish
LA · similarity 0.99
20 precincts · 22,080 votes cast
Trump · R+24
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−24.1%
8,34713,67022,080
2020R
−19.4%
8,70812,95421,853
2016R
−21.6%
7,14211,22818,885
2012R
−18.4%
7,65311,15618,992
2008R
−15.8%
7,72010,64218,459
2004R
−23.3%
5,9979,65915,733
2000R
−18.5%
4,8627,09312,058
1996R
−4.0%
5,1835,64911,518
1992R
−5.5%
4,8415,50011,948
1988R
−30.0%
3,5306,57210,145
1984R
−22.8%
4,0396,42710,466
1980D
+13.8%
5,6954,29410,161
1976D
+30.6%
6,1473,2639,410
1972R
−50.9%
2,1716,6688,839
1968D
+3.3%
2,5832,2619,885
1964R
−31.9%
3,2576,3069,563
1960D
+17.1%
3,2262,2855,511
1956D
+22.2%
3,5222,2405,762
1952D
+27.2%
3,9712,2736,244
1948D
+13.7%
1,4299253,667
1944D
+51.6%
1,7475572,305
1940D
+69.5%
2,0723712,448
1936D
+82.7%
2,4092222,645
1932D
+92.9%
2,607902,710
1928D
+20.7%
1,2408142,054
1924D
+79.6%
1,2801151,463
1920D
+74.1%
1,1301681,298
1916D
+83.0%
1,298421,513
1912D
+77.7%
1,012471,242
1908D
+2.3%
7657231,803
1904D
+30.5%
8623741,602
1900D
+44.2%
1,1464321,615
1896R
−1.4%
6006201,424
1892D
+33.0%
1,2945662,208
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
28.1%
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.
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
32.4%
Other Christian
13.1%
Methodist
9.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.9%
Mainline Protestant
2.2%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Thomas County anchors the Florida border in Georgia's agricultural south, where a largely rural electorate has delivered Republican presidential margins above 20 points in each of the last four cycles.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Thomas County, by a twenty-three points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-one points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in Thomas County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $60,736, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Ouachita Parish and Bulloch County.