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Explore which counties determined the winner of the 2024 election
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Explore which counties determined the winner of the 2024 election

As the dust settles after the 2024 general election, the numbers are clear: In battleground Georgia, a key state in this year’s presidential race, former President Donald J. Trump defeated the vice president. Kamala Harris, winning all 16 state elections. votes with 50.74% of the votes.

With 99% of the votes counted, the vote margin between Trump and Harris is 2.2 points, or about 117,000 votes, a Republican change in vote margin of almost 5 points since 2020. During the last presidential election , President Joe Biden won the state. with approximately 11,000 votes, turning the state blue for the first time since 1992.

Here’s a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s election and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing.

Most of Georgia’s 159 counties saw a Republican swing in this year’s elections, with Webster County seeing the largest swing at more than 10.5 points. In total, 134 counties supported Trump more than in 2020, including counties in urban and rural areas. However, 24 counties saw a Democratic shift in presidential vote margins, with Henry County showing the strongest Democratic increase at 9.2 points. (Walker County was the only area that did not change between the two elections.)

Henry County was also one of three key Democratic-leaning counties in the Atlanta suburbs that were once Republican strongholds but turned blue in 2016. Harris managed to edge out Biden in Henry County, but remained trailing par with Biden’s 2020 margins in the more populous Cobb and Gwinnett counties.

Georgia’s five “pivot” counties (areas that voted twice for Obama and then voted twice for Trump) once again leaned Republican. Baker, Dooly, Peach, Quitman and Twiggs County voted for Trump by wider margins than in 2020, showing a shift that was in line with much of the rest of the state.

Three counties, Baldwin, Jefferson and Washington, flipped this year and voted for Biden during the 2020 election and for Trump in 2024. These counties were also among a group of five counties with split tickets in the 2022 midterm elections, and residents voted for the Republican governor. Brian Kemp, with Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock. The remaining two counties, Clay and Sumter, went to Harris by small margins.

Maya Homan is a USA TODAY 2024 Elections Fellow focusing on Georgia politics. She is @MayaHoman on X, formerly Twitter.