- Lead
- 13,475
- Total
- 25,481
- vs nation
- D+54.4
Georgia 165th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,459
- Total
- 24,329
- vs nation
- D+50.9
- Lead
- 12,712
- Total
- 22,953
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 12,000
- Total
- 21,863
- vs nation
- D+51.0
- Lead
- 12,741
- Total
- 22,350
- vs nation
- D+49.7
- Lead
- 8,085
- Total
- 17,371
- vs nation
- D+49.0
- Lead
- 6,573
- Total
- 14,567
- vs nation
- D+44.6
- Lead
- 6,688
- Total
- 13,799
- vs nation
- D+39.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+52.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,9782024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,880 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 31.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,0982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.3 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 93, VA · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 165th 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
96.7%
2,783 votes · D+93.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 94.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
47.4%
3,896 votes · D+5.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 37.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
19,369votes
76.0% of the vote · D+52.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,733 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,894votes
23.1% of the vote · D+52.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,274 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. Roosevelt1944
+80.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+87.7 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +78.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−8.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+31.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −28.4 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%14,859 | 46.3%12,802 | 27,661 |
| 2020 | D | 56.6%14,619 | 43.4%11,203 | 25,822 |
Georgia 165th State House District sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.3 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 52.9 points.
A population of 59,978, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,098 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 93 and State House District 163.
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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