- Lead
- 11,160
- Total
- 22,767
- vs nation
- R+47.5
Georgia 172nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,913
- Total
- 22,041
- vs nation
- R+49.4
- Lead
- 8,323
- Total
- 18,766
- vs nation
- R+46.4
- Lead
- 6,814
- Total
- 18,506
- vs nation
- R+40.7
- Lead
- 6,442
- Total
- 18,510
- vs nation
- R+42.1
- Lead
- 6,122
- Total
- 15,973
- vs nation
- R+35.9
- Lead
- 3,920
- Total
- 13,361
- vs nation
- R+29.9
- Lead
- 600
- Total
- 13,045
- vs nation
- R+13.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+49.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,9612024 5-year
- Population density
- 78 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 769 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,3002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 170, GA · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 172nd 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
97.0%
4,610 votes · D+94.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 87.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
86.2%
8,749 votes · R+72.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 74.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
9,220votes
76.0% of the vote · D+52.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1980 · 7,336 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,934votes
74.4% of the vote · R+49.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,889 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. Roosevelt1932
+76.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +70.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+61.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +49.4 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 | R | 23.1%5,118 | 76.9%17,015 | 22,133 |
| 2020 | R | 26.2%5,579 | 73.8%15,710 | 21,289 |
With a 49.0-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, District 172 sits among Georgia's most reliably one-sided state house seats, likely anchored in a rural or exurban corridor where statewide races rarely stay competitive.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 72.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.0 points.
A population of 59,961, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,300 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 170 and State House District 169.
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 172nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/13172/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.