Wilkes County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

7 precincts · 5,098 votes cast

Trump · R+17

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−16.8%	2,112	2,971	5,098
2020	R	−13.2%	2,160	2,823	5,029
2016	R	−16.1%	1,848	2,572	4,486
2012	R	−11.5%	2,087	2,635	4,765
2008	R	−7.7%	2,315	2,705	5,052
2004	R	−10.2%	2,028	2,490	4,548
2000	R	−2.6%	1,940	2,044	4,026
1996	D	+15.4%	1,971	1,417	3,586
1992	D	+10.6%	1,955	1,535	3,962
1988	R	−7.7%	1,549	1,810	3,370
1984	R	−7.3%	1,586	1,837	3,423
1980	D	+31.4%	2,350	1,212	3,623
1976	D	+39.5%	2,461	1,067	3,528
1972	R	−54.5%	646	2,195	2,841
1968	D	+2.3%	953	873	3,535
1964	R	−7.0%	1,437	1,652	3,089
1960	D	+63.8%	1,786	395	2,181
1956	D	+69.9%	1,714	304	2,018
1952	D	+68.0%	1,500	286	1,786
1948	D	+55.8%	771	95	1,212
1944	D	+71.2%	946	159	1,105
1940	D	+78.0%	1,022	123	1,152
1936	D	+84.9%	1,031	78	1,122
1932	D	+92.3%	1,172	42	1,224
1928	R	−3.3%	747	798	1,545
1924	D	+73.7%	836	44	1,075
1920	D	+97.3%	876	12	888
1916	D	+89.9%	785	17	854
1912	D	+89.0%	657	3	735
1908	D	+57.9%	557	65	850
1904	D	+74.2%	622	6	830
1900	D	+89.2%	581	4	647
1896	D	+73.7%	1,063	104	1,302
1892	D	+90.3%	1,622	5	1,790
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

1.2%

African American

31.6%

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

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: 46.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.2%

3.7%

75–84

5.0%

6.0%

65–74

7.4%

7.0%

55–64

7.8%

5.6%

45–54

6.5%

5.3%

35–44

5.9%

6.3%

25–34

6.1%

2.8%

18–24

2.4%

8.3%

5–17

6.9%

3.3%

1.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$52,043

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

Wilkes County$52,043

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.8%

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

31.4%

Other Christian

17.7%

Methodist

9.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.9%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Wilkes County, anchored by Washington, Georgia, sits in the northeastern Piedmont and has trended sharply toward Republican presidential candidates over the past two decades despite a historically competitive past rooted in its majority-Black rural population.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Wilkes County, by a three points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-five points in 1972. The 2024 margin was seventeen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Wilkes County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 52% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $52,043, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pinal County and Arkansas County.

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