George H. W. Bush carried Georgia R+20.3.

Michael Dukakis (D) vs George H. W. Bush (R) in Georgia, 1988. The state ran 12.5 points more Republican than the nation (R+7.7 nationally).

Nominees: Michael Dukakis (D) · George H. W. Bush (R)

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Georgia result

1,809,657 votes counted

Dukakis (D)

714,792

39.5%

Bush (R)

1,081,331

59.8%

All others

13,534

0.7%

Margin

R+20.3

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1988 presidential election

Georgia, 1988

BushR+20.3

How it voted

Share of the 1988 vote

George H. W. Bush ✓Republican	59.8%	1,081,331
Michael DukakisDemocratic	39.5%	714,792
OtherAll other candidates	0.7%	13,534

D+60

R+60

159 counties, each filled by 1988 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Georgia's presidential margins

1892–2024, the 1988 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 — 1988

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

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Appling County	R	−23.9%	1,837	3,000	4,859
Atkinson County	R	−11.8%	887	1,126	2,025
Bacon County	R	−28.6%	780	1,407	2,194
Baker County	D	+5.8%	707	629	1,348
Baldwin County	R	−18.6%	4,008	5,852	9,911
Banks County	R	−23.5%	984	1,590	2,582
Barrow County	R	−31.8%	2,442	4,738	7,218
Bartow County	R	−24.2%	4,884	8,039	13,044
Ben Hill County	R	−3.5%	1,867	2,005	3,918
Berrien County	R	−19.0%	1,381	2,030	3,420
Bibb County	R	−0.2%	22,084	22,179	44,396
Bleckley County	R	−24.7%	1,175	1,950	3,138
Brantley County	R	−3.0%	1,450	1,539	3,007
Brooks County	R	−17.4%	1,500	2,136	3,649
Bryan County	R	−32.6%	1,423	2,802	4,235
Bulloch County	R	−30.0%	3,417	6,354	9,794
Burke County	R	−2.2%	2,861	2,988	5,872
Butts County	R	−11.6%	1,730	2,184	3,924
Calhoun County	D	+16.6%	901	644	1,551
Camden County	R	−16.3%	2,090	2,913	5,050
Candler County	R	−17.9%	877	1,261	2,144
Carroll County	R	−38.9%	4,706	10,754	15,541
Catoosa County	R	−44.3%	3,588	9,319	12,940
Charlton County	R	−16.7%	943	1,327	2,304
Chatham County	R	−17.2%	25,063	35,623	61,289
Chattahoochee County	R	−11.3%	362	454	817
Chattooga County	R	−24.7%	2,206	3,665	5,895
Cherokee County	R	−53.5%	4,378	14,593	19,088
Clarke County	D	+0.0%	11,154	11,150	22,452
Clay County	D	+19.8%	595	398	994
Clayton County	R	−31.4%	14,689	28,225	43,137
Clinch County	R	−18.4%	594	863	1,465
Cobb County	R	−45.9%	39,297	106,621	146,658
Coffee County	R	−18.2%	2,777	4,019	6,822
Colquitt County	R	−30.5%	2,998	5,653	8,691
Columbia County	R	−55.9%	4,617	16,401	21,094
Cook County	R	−11.8%	1,226	1,555	2,792
Coweta County	R	−39.2%	4,212	9,668	13,929
Crawford County	D	+4.0%	1,340	1,235	2,597
Crisp County	R	−26.5%	1,690	2,916	4,633
Dade County	R	−38.7%	1,120	2,539	3,671
Dawson County	R	−42.7%	761	1,908	2,686
Decatur County	R	−24.3%	2,348	3,866	6,241
DeKalb County	D	+1.3%	92,521	90,179	184,250
Dodge County	R	−10.5%	2,164	2,677	4,872
Dooly County	D	+7.5%	1,613	1,386	3,021
Dougherty County	R	−9.6%	12,579	15,520	30,517
Douglas County	R	−45.0%	5,086	13,493	18,678
Early County	R	−17.0%	1,359	1,918	3,281
Echols County	R	−26.4%	245	422	670
Effingham County	R	−34.6%	1,905	3,933	5,859
Elbert County	R	−13.8%	2,118	2,796	4,925
Emanuel County	R	−19.1%	2,387	3,530	5,988
Evans County	R	−24.8%	1,023	1,707	2,753
Fannin County	R	−33.4%	2,123	4,271	6,427
Fayette County	R	−56.1%	4,593	16,443	21,123
Floyd County	R	−26.3%	8,548	14,697	23,386
Forsyth County	R	−54.1%	2,347	7,947	10,344
Franklin County	R	−17.3%	1,842	2,615	4,465
Fulton County	D	+13.5%	120,752	91,785	214,689
Gilmer County	R	−41.9%	1,363	3,353	4,746
Glascock County	R	−46.8%	210	580	790
Glynn County	R	−27.2%	6,339	11,126	17,611
Gordon County	R	−43.6%	2,369	6,051	8,445
Grady County	R	−22.6%	1,883	2,989	4,892
Greene County	D	+11.8%	1,818	1,432	3,260
Gwinnett County	R	−51.7%	20,948	66,372	87,940
Habersham County	R	−39.3%	2,114	4,871	7,014
Hall County	R	−38.0%	7,782	17,415	25,344
Hancock County	D	+51.2%	1,947	621	2,589
Haralson County	R	−30.6%	2,404	4,529	6,950
Harris County	R	−28.3%	1,905	3,414	5,339
Hart County	R	−10.2%	2,476	3,044	5,547
Heard County	R	−27.8%	874	1,551	2,432
Henry County	R	−42.7%	4,348	10,882	15,304
Houston County	R	−28.8%	8,664	15,748	24,597
Irwin County	R	−14.3%	918	1,226	2,151
Jackson County	R	−25.6%	2,607	4,407	7,045
Jasper County	R	−10.7%	1,188	1,474	2,676
Jeff Davis County	R	−24.4%	1,242	2,050	3,305
Jefferson County	R	−8.6%	2,346	2,788	5,151
Jenkins County	R	−14.9%	953	1,288	2,248
Johnson County	R	−25.7%	927	1,567	2,494
Jones County	R	−15.2%	2,662	3,618	6,302
Lamar County	R	−17.6%	1,416	2,035	3,519
Lanier County	R	−1.9%	698	725	1,427
Laurens County	R	−17.1%	4,879	6,929	11,970
Lee County	R	−48.4%	995	2,875	3,883
Liberty County	R	−3.2%	2,906	3,100	6,050
Lincoln County	R	−22.5%	893	1,417	2,324
Long County	R	−11.4%	681	858	1,551
Lowndes County	R	−25.5%	6,427	10,855	17,333
Lumpkin County	R	−35.0%	1,286	2,688	4,000
Macon County	D	+23.2%	2,268	1,412	3,697
Madison County	R	−38.7%	1,639	3,724	5,389
Marion County	D	+2.4%	844	804	1,652
McDuffie County	R	−30.7%	1,704	3,231	4,968
McIntosh County	D	+9.0%	1,527	1,273	2,824
Meriwether County	R	−2.8%	2,934	3,101	6,044
Miller County	R	−36.3%	515	1,105	1,625
Mitchell County	R	−6.8%	2,260	2,590	4,860
Monroe County	R	−13.2%	1,970	2,570	4,558
Montgomery County	R	−15.2%	903	1,228	2,136
Morgan County	R	−16.5%	1,508	2,108	3,628
Murray County	R	−40.6%	1,679	3,996	5,700
Muscogee County	R	−10.2%	18,772	23,058	42,000
Newton County	R	−30.1%	3,111	5,809	8,969
Oconee County	R	−36.2%	1,990	4,265	6,282
Oglethorpe County	R	−25.6%	1,154	1,951	3,116
Paulding County	R	−45.7%	2,717	7,329	10,091
Peach County	D	+3.3%	2,972	2,782	5,796
Pickens County	R	−35.6%	1,430	3,021	4,474
Pierce County	R	−11.1%	1,558	1,947	3,509
Pike County	R	−27.4%	1,176	2,074	3,274
Polk County	R	−29.3%	2,977	5,454	8,461
Pulaski County	D	+2.6%	1,476	1,400	2,888
Putnam County	R	−15.8%	1,532	2,111	3,656
Quitman County	D	+19.0%	436	296	738
Rabun County	R	−27.1%	1,301	2,278	3,608
Randolph County	D	+1.9%	1,369	1,319	2,695
Richmond County	R	−14.7%	20,489	27,566	48,258
Rockdale County	R	−48.0%	4,330	12,413	16,826
Schley County	R	−18.2%	439	635	1,078
Screven County	R	−19.6%	1,461	2,178	3,659
Seminole County	R	−11.3%	1,171	1,469	2,645
Spalding County	R	−28.1%	4,318	7,730	12,138
Stephens County	R	−32.7%	2,185	4,329	6,550
Stewart County	D	+15.4%	1,136	832	1,973
Sumter County	R	−12.5%	3,332	4,289	7,668
Talbot County	D	+21.7%	1,248	802	2,060
Taliaferro County	D	+21.0%	469	306	777
Tattnall County	R	−30.3%	1,694	3,172	4,878
Taylor County	R	−0.5%	1,134	1,145	2,284
Telfair County	R	−1.1%	1,765	1,805	3,595
Terrell County	R	−4.6%	1,383	1,517	2,905
Thomas County	R	−30.0%	3,530	6,572	10,145
Tift County	R	−32.0%	2,446	4,760	7,234
Toombs County	R	−58.4%	1,152	4,433	5,619
Towns County	R	−30.7%	942	1,783	2,738
Treutlen County	R	−14.4%	726	970	1,696
Troup County	R	−34.9%	4,562	9,484	14,089
Turner County	R	−7.3%	1,122	1,312	2,597
Twiggs County	D	+15.6%	1,730	1,261	3,005
Union County	R	−31.1%	1,258	2,396	3,664
Upson County	R	−26.6%	2,666	4,614	7,318
Walker County	R	−37.5%	4,753	10,487	15,280
Walton County	R	−31.6%	3,091	5,974	9,112
Ware County	R	−5.8%	4,292	4,819	9,163
Warren County	D	+9.7%	1,091	897	2,003
Washington County	R	−2.5%	2,615	2,752	5,383
Wayne County	R	−16.0%	2,417	3,340	5,766
Webster County	D	+8.4%	427	361	790
Wheeler County	R	−3.7%	658	709	1,373
White County	R	−43.8%	1,028	2,648	3,696
Whitfield County	R	−46.7%	4,618	12,761	17,451
Wilcox County	R	−6.7%	1,079	1,235	2,319
Wilkes County	R	−7.7%	1,549	1,810	3,370
Wilkinson County	D	+8.4%	1,831	1,546	3,413
Worth County	R	−33.8%	1,311	2,668	4,009