Jimmy Carter carried Georgia D+14.8.

Jimmy Carter (D) vs Ronald Reagan (R) in Georgia, 1980. The state ran 24.6 points more Democratic than the nation (R+9.7 nationally). A US Senate contest shared the 1980 ballot here.

Nominees: Jimmy Carter (D) · Ronald Reagan (R)

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Georgia result

1,596,583 votes counted

Carter (D)

890,733

55.8%

Reagan (R)

654,168

41.0%

All others

51,682

3.2%

Margin

D+14.8

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1980 presidential election

Georgia, 1980

CarterD+14.8

How it voted

Share of the 1980 vote

Jimmy Carter ✓Democratic	55.8%	890,733
Ronald ReaganRepublican	41.0%	654,168
John B. AndersonIndependent	3.2%	51,682

D+60

R+60

159 counties, each filled by 1980 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Georgia's presidential margins

1892–2024, the 1980 contest in context

Georgia's presidential margins

Year	Margin (D minus R)
1892	+36.3%
1896	+21.0%
1900	+38.7%
1904	+45.9%
1908	+23.4%
1912	+72.4%
1916	+72.9%
1920	+42.3%
1924	+55.9%
1928	+12.0%
1932	+83.8%
1936	+74.5%
1940	+69.9%
1944	+63.5%
1948	+42.5%
1952	+39.3%
1956	+34.1%
1960	+25.1%
1964	−8.3%
1968	−3.7%
1972	−50.6%
1976	+33.9%
1980	+14.8%
1984	−20.4%
1988	−20.3%
1992	+0.6%
1996	−1.2%
2000	−11.7%
2004	−16.6%
2008	−5.2%
2012	−7.8%
2016	−5.1%
2020	+0.3%
2024	−2.2%

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County results — 1980

159 counties; every row links to the county's full page.

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Appling County	D	+20.5%	2,985	1,961	5,007
Atkinson County	D	+31.6%	1,449	747	2,222
Bacon County	D	+6.3%	1,622	1,427	3,106
Baker County	D	+33.6%	1,035	510	1,564
Baldwin County	D	+8.8%	4,368	3,639	8,326
Banks County	D	+46.9%	2,091	746	2,868
Barrow County	D	+25.2%	3,876	2,284	6,309
Bartow County	D	+40.1%	7,490	3,135	10,853
Ben Hill County	D	+26.7%	2,544	1,459	4,067
Berrien County	D	+31.4%	2,869	1,487	4,404
Bibb County	D	+34.5%	31,770	15,175	48,130
Bleckley County	D	+21.9%	2,014	1,261	3,440
Brantley County	D	+39.8%	2,066	882	2,977
Brooks County	D	+17.9%	2,230	1,546	3,827
Bryan County	D	+23.3%	1,966	1,212	3,235
Bulloch County	D	+13.1%	4,921	3,750	8,921
Burke County	D	+23.6%	3,047	1,871	4,991
Butts County	D	+35.5%	2,574	1,210	3,845
Calhoun County	D	+36.5%	1,414	652	2,087
Camden County	D	+33.4%	2,924	1,439	4,443
Candler County	D	+13.5%	1,358	1,030	2,421
Carroll County	D	+16.5%	8,202	5,815	14,475
Catoosa County	R	−9.4%	4,921	5,962	11,059
Charlton County	D	+30.2%	1,469	779	2,286
Chatham County	D	+3.4%	28,413	26,499	56,781
Chattahoochee County	D	+29.3%	476	256	752
Chattooga County	D	+36.9%	4,279	1,946	6,330
Cherokee County	D	+6.6%	6,020	5,250	11,678
Clarke County	D	+12.2%	10,519	8,094	19,899
Clay County	D	+47.8%	909	316	1,241
Clayton County	R	−4.3%	17,540	19,160	38,051
Clinch County	D	+43.6%	1,325	513	1,864
Cobb County	R	−13.4%	39,157	51,977	95,816
Coffee County	D	+23.2%	4,038	2,499	6,621
Colquitt County	D	+19.4%	5,353	3,593	9,069
Columbia County	R	−8.0%	5,335	6,293	11,938
Cook County	D	+34.6%	2,461	1,188	3,684
Coweta County	D	+11.7%	5,697	4,480	10,422
Crawford County	D	+43.4%	1,673	642	2,375
Crisp County	D	+28.8%	3,403	1,861	5,347
Dade County	R	−9.6%	1,735	2,114	3,929
Dawson County	D	+18.7%	1,072	729	1,837
Decatur County	D	+5.2%	3,242	2,919	6,243
DeKalb County	D	+4.7%	82,743	74,904	167,405
Dodge County	D	+45.2%	4,635	1,719	6,453
Dooly County	D	+36.6%	2,364	1,083	3,502
Dougherty County	D	+2.6%	13,430	12,726	26,615
Douglas County	R	−1.0%	6,807	6,945	14,238
Early County	D	+15.5%	2,110	1,538	3,682
Echols County	D	+32.7%	515	259	783
Effingham County	D	+4.7%	2,783	2,528	5,377
Elbert County	D	+33.8%	4,014	1,967	6,061
Emanuel County	D	+28.3%	3,971	2,199	6,251
Evans County	D	+14.2%	1,456	1,090	2,575
Fannin County	R	−11.5%	2,526	3,196	5,829
Fayette County	R	−24.2%	3,798	6,351	10,549
Floyd County	D	+19.0%	13,710	9,220	23,596
Forsyth County	D	+15.1%	4,325	3,157	7,736
Franklin County	D	+43.2%	3,528	1,387	4,960
Fulton County	D	+27.9%	118,748	64,909	192,723
Gilmer County	D	+1.7%	2,246	2,170	4,537
Glascock County	D	+9.1%	614	510	1,138
Glynn County	D	+2.1%	7,540	7,214	15,173
Gordon County	D	+24.5%	5,199	3,107	8,542
Grady County	D	+19.6%	3,023	2,018	5,117
Greene County	D	+45.1%	2,571	961	3,573
Gwinnett County	R	−10.2%	21,958	27,185	51,452
Habersham County	D	+32.0%	4,394	2,224	6,781
Hall County	D	+21.3%	12,124	7,760	20,521
Hancock County	D	+58.1%	2,205	573	2,809
Haralson County	D	+23.1%	3,606	2,229	5,960
Harris County	D	+16.3%	2,807	2,001	4,942
Hart County	D	+47.7%	4,539	1,577	6,215
Heard County	D	+20.7%	1,348	875	2,283
Henry County	D	+2.7%	5,635	5,326	11,268
Houston County	D	+9.2%	10,915	9,005	20,695
Irwin County	D	+19.0%	1,555	1,056	2,632
Jackson County	D	+34.3%	4,591	2,209	6,949
Jasper County	D	+26.9%	1,546	879	2,484
Jeff Davis County	D	+26.2%	2,059	1,191	3,311
Jefferson County	D	+34.2%	3,305	1,605	4,978
Jenkins County	D	+32.4%	1,632	824	2,493
Johnson County	D	+24.1%	1,854	1,123	3,029
Jones County	D	+27.0%	3,239	1,828	5,220
Lamar County	D	+30.2%	2,453	1,298	3,828
Lanier County	D	+40.3%	1,116	470	1,604
Laurens County	D	+27.7%	7,860	4,392	12,523
Lee County	R	−7.4%	1,670	1,942	3,661
Liberty County	D	+34.0%	3,099	1,507	4,683
Lincoln County	D	+33.2%	1,617	806	2,440
Long County	D	+39.5%	1,202	514	1,743
Lowndes County	R	−4.9%	5,989	6,622	12,912
Lumpkin County	D	+30.0%	1,951	1,024	3,085
Macon County	D	+53.6%	3,025	894	3,979
Madison County	D	+12.0%	2,980	2,330	5,401
Marion County	D	+34.2%	1,174	567	1,773
McDuffie County	D	+15.8%	2,667	1,928	4,683
McIntosh County	D	+40.3%	2,104	876	3,049
Meriwether County	D	+35.1%	3,876	1,838	5,805
Miller County	D	+11.1%	1,127	900	2,053
Mitchell County	D	+22.8%	3,566	2,231	5,856
Monroe County	D	+33.7%	2,542	1,242	3,860
Montgomery County	D	+27.1%	1,663	948	2,640
Morgan County	D	+26.0%	2,276	1,323	3,671
Murray County	D	+33.1%	3,094	1,538	4,701
Muscogee County	D	+20.4%	23,272	15,203	39,566
Newton County	D	+26.6%	5,611	3,206	9,056
Oconee County	D	+1.7%	2,141	2,065	4,367
Oglethorpe County	D	+14.8%	1,611	1,187	2,856
Paulding County	D	+23.9%	4,686	2,845	7,717
Peach County	D	+34.3%	3,415	1,642	5,170
Pickens County	D	+18.3%	2,358	1,612	4,077
Pierce County	D	+29.8%	1,918	1,027	2,985
Pike County	D	+15.6%	1,755	1,271	3,094
Polk County	D	+28.9%	5,421	2,949	8,562
Pulaski County	D	+26.1%	1,997	1,153	3,232
Putnam County	D	+24.7%	1,951	1,166	3,177
Quitman County	D	+41.7%	589	240	837
Rabun County	D	+36.0%	2,327	1,070	3,495
Randolph County	D	+35.8%	1,861	879	2,743
Richmond County	D	+10.0%	24,104	19,619	44,871
Rockdale County	R	−9.0%	4,395	5,300	10,067
Schley County	D	+14.7%	613	453	1,085
Screven County	D	+17.1%	2,117	1,490	3,664
Seminole County	D	+23.1%	1,794	1,117	2,936
Spalding County	D	+19.2%	7,176	4,809	12,331
Stephens County	D	+37.1%	4,529	2,045	6,692
Stewart County	D	+39.7%	1,440	611	2,087
Sumter County	D	+24.8%	4,956	2,957	8,060
Talbot County	D	+47.4%	1,635	572	2,243
Taliaferro County	D	+41.9%	670	270	954
Tattnall County	D	+15.6%	2,864	2,082	5,002
Taylor County	D	+38.2%	1,845	815	2,698
Telfair County	D	+38.7%	2,700	1,173	3,941
Terrell County	D	+18.5%	2,010	1,378	3,420
Thomas County	D	+13.8%	5,695	4,294	10,161
Tift County	D	+16.1%	4,572	3,280	8,022
Toombs County	D	+6.8%	3,255	2,835	6,197
Towns County	D	+1.1%	1,510	1,475	3,065
Treutlen County	D	+31.9%	1,307	668	2,004
Troup County	D	+17.3%	7,716	5,398	13,429
Turner County	D	+37.4%	1,990	898	2,921
Twiggs County	D	+49.2%	2,213	747	2,980
Union County	D	+4.7%	1,700	1,546	3,311
Upson County	D	+25.2%	4,713	2,788	7,635
Walker County	R	−2.0%	6,809	7,088	14,132
Walton County	D	+26.1%	4,525	2,618	7,303
Ware County	D	+25.6%	6,307	3,715	10,137
Warren County	D	+31.8%	1,517	779	2,321
Washington County	D	+30.4%	3,452	1,822	5,364
Wayne County	D	+26.5%	3,843	2,213	6,157
Webster County	D	+31.5%	608	312	940
Wheeler County	D	+48.0%	1,599	550	2,186
White County	D	+25.6%	2,017	1,175	3,287
Whitfield County	D	+20.0%	9,691	6,404	16,439
Wilcox County	D	+36.2%	1,780	827	2,630
Wilkes County	D	+31.4%	2,350	1,212	3,623
Wilkinson County	D	+35.4%	2,365	1,116	3,532
Worth County	D	+10.5%	2,567	2,076	4,695