- Lead
- 53,376
- Total
- 96,806
- vs nation
- D+56.6
Georgia 38th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 51,542
- Total
- 92,639
- vs nation
- D+51.2
- Lead
- 39,962
- Total
- 77,481
- vs nation
- D+49.5
- Lead
- 29,176
- Total
- 69,621
- vs nation
- D+38.1
- Lead
- 33,373
- Total
- 71,579
- vs nation
- D+39.4
- Lead
- 18,810
- Total
- 58,186
- vs nation
- D+34.8
- Lead
- 13,942
- Total
- 45,224
- vs nation
- D+30.3
- Lead
- 14,518
- Total
- 42,076
- vs nation
- D+26.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+55.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 192,2842024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,561 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 123 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,2912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 28.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 59.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+84.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 35, GA · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 38th State Senate 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
92.0%
3,842 votes · D+84.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 90.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
49.5%
13,973 votes · D+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 41.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
74,694votes
77.2% of the vote · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 71,603 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
21,318votes
22.0% of the vote · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 20,061 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
+71.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+81.8 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +67.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−2.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+25.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · −16.1 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 | 70.6%66,224 | 29.4%27,595 | 93,819 |
| 2020 | D | 68.5%54,765 | 31.5%25,218 | 79,983 |
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 45 points, this district anchors the heavily Democratic end of Georgia's state legislative map, reflecting the dense, majority-minority urban communities that define its electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.8 points in 1932. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.1 points.
A population of 192,284, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,291 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 35 and State Senate District 38.
The state-senate 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 38th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/13038/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.