- Lead
- 7,586
- Total
- 25,036
- vs nation
- D+31.8
Georgia 162nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,134
- Total
- 24,103
- vs nation
- D+29.3
- Lead
- 5,688
- Total
- 19,869
- vs nation
- D+26.5
- Lead
- 5,008
- Total
- 18,915
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 5,619
- Total
- 19,390
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 2,424
- Total
- 15,768
- vs nation
- D+17.8
- Lead
- 1,965
- Total
- 13,070
- vs nation
- D+14.5
- Lead
- 2,439
- Total
- 12,366
- vs nation
- D+11.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 60,3082024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,249 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 48.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,0492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+84.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+28.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 163, GA · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 162nd 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. Roosevelt1936
91.1%
1,986 votes · D+82.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 87.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
64.3%
5,507 votes · R+28.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 56.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
16,218votes
64.8% of the vote · D+30.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 15,927 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,632votes
34.5% of the vote · D+30.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,793 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
+71.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+81.7 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +63.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+24.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +5.4 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 | 53.7%14,940 | 46.3%12,872 | 27,812 |
| 2020 | D | 56.6%14,699 | 43.4%11,264 | 25,963 |
District 162 posts presidential margins exceeding 30 points, reflecting the dense, majority-minority composition typical of the Atlanta urban core, where Democratic candidates have drawn supermajority-level support across consecutive cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 28.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.3 points.
A population of 60,308, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,049 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 163 and State House District 93.
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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Georgia 162nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/13162/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.