Turner County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

3 precincts · 3,833 votes cast

Trump · R+28

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−28.5%	1,365	2,457	3,833
2020	R	−24.8%	1,410	2,349	3,792
2016	R	−24.9%	1,246	2,095	3,405
2012	R	−14.5%	1,510	2,028	3,567
2008	R	−18.8%	1,427	2,096	3,553
2004	R	−22.9%	1,135	1,815	2,965
2000	R	−3.6%	1,169	1,258	2,456
1996	D	+14.2%	1,272	924	2,455
1992	D	+24.2%	1,669	936	3,024
1988	R	−7.3%	1,122	1,312	2,597
1984	R	−2.3%	1,270	1,329	2,599
1980	D	+37.4%	1,990	898	2,921
1976	D	+69.0%	2,265	416	2,681
1972	R	−65.8%	437	2,120	2,557
1968	R	−0.3%	412	419	2,676
1964	R	−39.9%	719	1,672	2,391
1960	D	+65.0%	1,545	328	1,873
1956	D	+59.6%	1,398	354	1,752
1952	D	+54.3%	1,357	402	1,759
1948	D	+54.9%	774	147	1,143
1944	D	+40.9%	797	334	1,132
1940	D	+38.4%	791	351	1,147
1936	D	+64.1%	860	188	1,048
1932	D	+87.0%	909	59	977
1928	R	−23.2%	328	526	854
1924	D	+32.1%	338	166	536
1920	D	+36.7%	393	182	575
1916	D	+35.6%	400	145	717
1912	D	+69.4%	385	25	519
1908	D	+31.3%	276	105	547
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
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

29.1%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 36.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.1%

85+

1.1%

3.1%

75–84

3.6%

4.9%

65–74

6.5%

5.5%

55–64

6.9%

4.1%

45–54

6.8%

5.4%

35–44

4.6%

7.1%

25–34

6.2%

4.0%

18–24

5.0%

8.4%

5–17

9.3%

4.0%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$36,799

Turner County ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties.

Turner County$36,799

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.3%

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

50.4%

Methodist

6.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.0%

Other Christian

2.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 36.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Turner County's population has contracted steadily over recent decades, and its electorate—heavily rural, with agriculture as the economic anchor—has shifted toward Republican presidential candidates by double digits since it once reliably backed Democrats.

The Democratic margin in Turner County peaked at eighty-seven points in 1932. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was twenty-eight points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Turner County's median household income of $36,799 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 Ben Hill County and Clark County.

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