- Lead
- 15,941
- Total
- 25,847
- vs nation
- D+63.1
Georgia 86th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 17,918
- Total
- 26,483
- vs nation
- D+63.2
- Lead
- 14,606
- Total
- 23,060
- vs nation
- D+61.2
- Lead
- 12,719
- Total
- 22,181
- vs nation
- D+53.5
- Lead
- 13,836
- Total
- 23,356
- vs nation
- D+52.0
- Lead
- 9,343
- Total
- 20,000
- vs nation
- D+49.2
- Lead
- 7,026
- Total
- 15,963
- vs nation
- D+43.5
- Lead
- 5,714
- Total
- 14,993
- vs nation
- D+29.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+61.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,1532024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,866 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,8452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 26.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 53.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.1 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 87, GA · twin score 99.4
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 86th 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
89.4%
390 votes · D+80.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 87.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.0%
7,440 votes · R+54.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 57.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
22,065votes
83.3% of the vote · D+67.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 20,751 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
7,440votes
77.0% of the vote · R+54.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 7,433 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
+66.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+76.1 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +63.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+35.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +30.8 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 | 81.9%22,695 | 18.1%5,025 | 27,720 |
| 2020 | D | 83.2%23,361 | 16.8%4,707 | 28,068 |
Georgia 86th State House District sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.1 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 54.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.7 points.
A population of 59,153, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,845 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 87 and State House District 88.
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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