- Lead
- 390
- Total
- 33,324
- vs nation
- D+2.6
Georgia 48th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 963
- Total
- 33,079
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 3,159
- Total
- 27,767
- vs nation
- R+13.5
- Lead
- 6,969
- Total
- 26,566
- vs nation
- R+30.1
- Lead
- 5,970
- Total
- 26,131
- vs nation
- R+30.1
- Lead
- 9,259
- Total
- 23,574
- vs nation
- R+36.8
- Lead
- 7,236
- Total
- 18,527
- vs nation
- R+39.6
- Lead
- 5,557
- Total
- 16,439
- vs nation
- R+42.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 58,9782024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,277 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $134,7212024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.9 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 53, GA · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 48th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1932–2024 · 24 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
73.3%
590 votes · D+48.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
80.2%
8,491 votes · R+60.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 73.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,770votes
50.7% of the vote · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,609 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
16,507votes
62.1% of the vote · R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 16,288 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
+38.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.7 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +31.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+62.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +46.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 67.5%18,750 | 32.5%9,022 | 27,772 |
| 2020 | D | 65.8%16,104 | 34.2%8,369 | 24,473 |
Georgia House District 48 sits in the suburban Atlanta orbit, where rapid demographic change has compressed presidential margins to the low single digits — making it one of the state's more closely watched legislative battlegrounds.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.2 points.
A population of 58,978, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $134,721 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 53 and State House District 49.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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