- Lead
- 19,421
- Total
- 33,628
- vs nation
- D+59.2
Georgia 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,321
- Total
- 33,784
- vs nation
- D+52.7
- Lead
- 13,970
- Total
- 28,476
- vs nation
- D+47.0
- Lead
- 9,966
- Total
- 25,054
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 11,103
- Total
- 26,008
- vs nation
- D+35.4
- Lead
- 6,105
- Total
- 21,136
- vs nation
- D+31.3
- Lead
- 4,801
- Total
- 17,319
- vs nation
- D+27.2
- Lead
- 4,762
- Total
- 15,408
- vs nation
- D+22.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+57.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,1612024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,625 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 36.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $104,5882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 30.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 53.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.5 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 38, GA · twin score 98.8
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 61st 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
99.2%
847 votes · D+98.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 97.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
41.7%
4,239 votes · D+16.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 41.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
26,383votes
78.5% of the vote · D+57.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,362 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
7,437votes
35.2% of the vote · D+28.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 7,369 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
Adlai Stevenson1952
+93.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.1 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +91.1 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
−22.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+30.9 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −24.4 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 | 60.3%17,745 | 39.7%11,699 | 29,444 |
| 2020 | D | 59.6%16,624 | 40.4%11,292 | 27,916 |
Georgia House District 61 sits within the Atlanta metro's shifting suburban ring, where demographic change and college-education gains have pushed presidential margins toward Democrats — 7.5 points in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.5 points in 1932. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 57.8 points.
A population of 59,161, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $104,588 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 38 and State House District 69.
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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