- Lead
- 5,444
- Total
- 29,133
- vs nation
- R+17.2
Georgia 179th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,509
- Total
- 28,838
- vs nation
- R+20.1
- Lead
- 4,898
- Total
- 24,210
- vs nation
- R+22.3
- Lead
- 4,369
- Total
- 23,331
- vs nation
- R+22.6
- Lead
- 3,522
- Total
- 23,574
- vs nation
- R+22.2
- Lead
- 5,239
- Total
- 19,374
- vs nation
- R+24.6
- Lead
- 3,348
- Total
- 15,740
- vs nation
- R+21.8
- Lead
- 1,805
- Total
- 15,333
- vs nation
- R+20.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,3562024 5-year
- Population density
- 479 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 124 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,7472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 124, GA · twin score 90.3
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 179th 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
90.4%
1,524 votes · D+81.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 89.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.4%
6,178 votes · R+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 63.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,988votes
41.6% of the vote · R+15.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 11,774 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,218votes
59.1% of the vote · R+18.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,497 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
+73.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.4 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +66.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+26.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+3.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +24.6 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 | 32.9%9,823 | 67.1%19,989 | 29,812 |
| 2020 | R | 36.7%9,840 | 63.3%16,983 | 26,823 |
District 179 backed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee by 17.4 points, reflecting the dense, diverse urban composition typical of Atlanta's legislative map. Its sub-60,000 population sits within one of Georgia's most reliably blue legislative corridors.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 44.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.7 points.
A population of 59,356, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,747 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 124 and State House District 123.
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 179th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/13179/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.