- Lead
- 4,380
- Total
- 98,415
- vs nation
- R+3.0
Georgia 48th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,221
- Total
- 97,594
- vs nation
- R+7.8
- Lead
- 14,405
- Total
- 77,397
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 23,553
- Total
- 70,891
- vs nation
- R+37.1
- Lead
- 19,973
- Total
- 68,843
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 25,666
- Total
- 59,305
- vs nation
- R+40.8
- Lead
- 18,193
- Total
- 44,549
- vs nation
- R+41.4
- Lead
- 12,324
- Total
- 37,420
- vs nation
- R+41.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+4.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 190,1232024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,198 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 86.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $161,6972024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, KS · twin score 85.8
presidential history
Party record book
Georgia 48th 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
80.5%
1,675 votes · D+62.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.0%
16,181 votes · R+58.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 71.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46,567votes
47.7% of the vote · R+3.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 46,380 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
50,760votes
51.6% of the vote · R+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 49,788 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
+44.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+62.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +42.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+56.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +41.5 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%48,902 | 46.3%42,115 | 91,017 |
| 2020 | D | 52.9%43,612 | 47.1%38,835 | 82,447 |
Georgia Senate District 48 sits in the orbit of metro Atlanta, where rapid demographic change has compressed presidential margins to roughly one point — making it one of the state's closest legislative battlegrounds.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 58.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.5 points.
A population of 190,123, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $161,697 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 13.
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 48th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/13048/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.