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The 13th district maintains most of the parts of Clayton County (exchanging a small slither for DeKalb County and maintains its portion in Henry County but also includes Rockdale County, Newton County formerly in the 4th district and also extends into southern Gwinnett County. This maintains three majority-black districts that also now reflect ...
The party primary elections took place on May 24, with runoffs scheduled for June 21. Raffensperger was elected in 2018 to a first term in a runoff against Democratic former U.S. representative John Barrow , the first time in Georgia history that any statewide executive election went to a second round.
This story features results of the 2024 Georgia Democratic and Republican primaries for counties T-Z.
During the regular primary, most counties and several consolidated city-county governments held nonpartisan elections for mayor, select city council or county commission seats, and select board of education seats, including Columbus, Athens, and Augusta.
Although majority-minority Burke County—near Augusta—flipped to Trump after supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden was able to build Clinton's vote shares in the densely populated Metro Atlanta counties of Gwinnett, Cobb, and Henry, increasing her vote shares of 50%, 48%, and 50% to 58%, 56%, and 60%, respectively–in all three cases ...
Nicole Love Hendrickson, chair of Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners [102] Municipal officials Andrew Young , 55th mayor of Atlanta (1982–1990); 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1977–1979); former U.S. representative from GA-5 (1973–1977) [ 103 ]
As of 2024, this is the last time the Democratic candidate won Burke County, a former majority-Black Black Belt county with a declining Black population. Georgia weighed in for this election as 7.23% more Republican than the national average, despite the fact that from 1996 to 2012 it had voted to the right of the nation by at least 10 points.
Incumbent Republican representative Rob Woodall, who has represented the Gwinnett County-based district since 2011, was mentioned as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, but he declined to run. [31] Woodall will be opposed by Lilburn City Councilman Thomas Wight as the Democratic candidate.