Georgia 1956 Presidential Election

Democratic Candidate vs. Republican Candidate

Democratic Candidate won the Georgia 1956 presidential election with 441,094 votes (67.1%), a margin of D+34.1. Georgia's 16 electoral votes went to the Democratic ticket.

Statewide Results

67.1%

32.9%

441,094

Democratic Candidate (67.1%)

216,662

Republican Candidate (32.9%)

Total Votes: 657,756|Margin: D+34.1

County Results

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County Results (159 counties)

County	Margin	1980 Pres	1984 Pres	Total Votes	Swing
Baker County	D+92.1	D+33.6	D+1.2	815	D+18.9%
Berrien County	D+87.1	D+31.4	R+17.8	2,563	D+15.7%
Atkinson County	D+86.7	D+31.6	R+2.3	1,841	D+8.9%
Madison County	D+86.5	D+12.0	R+38.1	2,383	D+7.7%
Franklin County	D+84.3	D+43.2	R+16.2	3,221	D+7.1%
Quitman County	D+83.9	D+41.7	D+15.2	386	D+27.7%
Bleckley County	D+83.7	D+21.9	R+13.2	1,673	D+5.7%
Hart County	D+82.8	D+47.7	R+6.5	1,246	R+5.3%
Dooly County	D+82.8	D+36.6	D+9.2	2,025	D+2.9%
Seminole County	D+82.5	D+23.1	R+9.6	1,472	D+9.5%
Calhoun County	D+82.2	D+36.5	D+16.2	1,201	D+12.9%
Fayette County	D+80.9	R+24.2	R+62.9	1,446	D+8.6%
Early County	D+80.8	D+15.5	R+20.0	2,011	D+9.9%
Johnson County	D+80.0	D+24.1	R+18.2	1,786	D+11.9%
Cook County	D+79.1	D+34.6	R+10.4	2,345	D+7.9%
Oglethorpe County	D+78.7	D+14.8	R+26.3	1,571	D+3.7%
Pulaski County	D+78.5	D+26.1	R+2.3	1,593	R+2.5%
Treutlen County	D+78.3	D+31.9	R+12.6	1,077	R+8.4%
Elbert County	D+78.1	D+33.8	R+11.5	4,082	D+6.9%
Telfair County	D+75.9	D+38.7	D+1.7	2,359	R+7.5%
Wilcox County	D+75.8	D+36.2	R+0.2	1,918	D+3.4%
Mitchell County	D+75.5	D+22.8	D+1.0	3,117	D+8.4%
Crawford County	D+75.5	D+43.4	D+4.6	888	D+2.0%
Worth County	D+75.3	D+10.5	R+26.7	2,371	D+11.8%
Jackson County	D+75.2	D+34.3	R+21.5	3,538	R+2.9%
Walton County	D+74.9	D+26.1	R+33.6	3,741	R+8.9%
Lee County	D+74.1	R+7.4	R+39.7	611	D+43.0%
Jeff Davis County	D+74.0	D+26.2	R+23.6	1,903	D+17.5%
Wheeler County	D+73.9	D+48.0	R+3.7	1,141	D+7.8%
Terrell County	D+73.0	D+18.5	R+4.4	1,503	D+15.3%
Bacon County	D+72.2	D+6.3	R+27.5	2,839	D+25.1%
Newton County	D+71.7	D+26.6	R+26.3	3,764	R+6.5%
Morgan County	D+71.7	D+26.0	R+14.6	1,738	R+2.3%
Twiggs County	D+71.3	D+49.2	D+21.1	1,170	D+1.3%
Pierce County	D+71.1	D+29.8	R+13.7	2,064	D+18.6%
Lanier County	D+70.8	D+40.3	R+7.0	1,042	D+4.3%
Butts County	D+70.7	D+35.5	R+8.1	2,208	R+11.2%
Webster County	D+70.5	D+31.5	D+14.1	346	D+28.9%
Heard County	D+70.2	D+20.7	R+29.6	1,300	R+3.0%
Wilkes County	D+69.9	D+31.4	R+7.3	2,018	D+1.9%
Coffee County	D+69.6	D+23.2	R+22.9	3,773	D+18.9%
Macon County	D+69.1	D+53.6	D+24.9	2,347	D+4.7%
Grady County	D+68.9	D+19.6	R+26.4	3,193	D+6.5%
Meriwether County	D+68.2	D+35.1	R+5.5	3,729	R+5.7%
Brantley County	D+68.2	D+39.8	R+5.1	1,436	D+8.9%
Banks County	D+68.2	D+46.9	R+18.6	1,176	R+3.8%
Talbot County	D+67.8	D+47.4	D+31.5	846	D+8.9%
Barrow County	D+67.4	D+25.2	R+27.1	2,708	R+14.5%
Pike County	D+67.1	D+15.6	R+21.3	1,277	D+4.4%
Irwin County	D+66.6	D+19.0	R+19.0	1,866	D+18.4%
Taylor County	D+66.2	D+38.2	D+1.8	1,635	R+5.4%
Upson County	D+65.6	D+25.2	R+24.0	4,134	R+5.5%
Dodge County	D+65.0	D+45.2	R+4.8	4,217	R+11.7%
Lincoln County	D+63.6	D+33.2	R+9.8	851	D+30.9%
Warren County	D+63.2	D+31.8	D+7.3	826	D+33.3%
Laurens County	D+62.1	D+27.7	R+13.5	6,274	R+3.3%
Tattnall County	D+62.1	D+15.6	R+30.2	2,321	D+24.9%
Long County	D+61.9	D+39.5	R+14.8	1,476	D+37.5%
Toombs County	D+61.9	D+6.8	R+30.4	2,962	D+4.8%
Houston County	D+61.8	D+9.2	R+21.4	5,543	R+7.3%
Washington County	D+61.6	D+30.4	D+2.5	3,132	D+11.6%
Putnam County	D+60.6	D+24.7	R+15.6	1,361	R+6.1%
Turner County	D+59.6	D+37.4	R+2.3	1,752	D+5.3%
Gwinnett County	D+59.5	R+10.2	R+59.0	7,130	R+11.6%
Echols County	D+59.5	D+32.7	R+33.2	662	R+10.5%
Marion County	D+59.3	D+34.2	D+5.8	776	D+3.0%
Montgomery County	D+59.0	D+27.1	R+17.9	1,323	R+12.6%
Ben Hill County	D+59.0	D+26.7	R+10.9	2,704	D+9.8%
Jenkins County	D+58.6	D+32.4	R+11.6	1,261	D+6.6%
Stephens County	D+58.3	D+37.1	R+28.2	3,279	R+10.2%
Bulloch County	D+58.2	D+13.1	R+25.3	4,315	R+1.6%
Clay County	D+58.2	D+47.8	D+28.3	493	D+11.8%
Schley County	D+58.1	D+14.7	R+20.7	558	D+8.8%
Bryan County	D+57.9	D+23.3	R+23.7	1,573	D+8.8%
Taliaferro County	D+57.8	D+41.9	D+26.7	759	R+21.1%
Greene County	D+57.6	D+45.1	D+10.9	2,553	R+13.2%
Oconee County	D+57.3	D+1.7	R+40.6	1,470	D+1.6%
Charlton County	D+57.2	D+30.2	R+10.4	954	D+9.5%
Rockdale County	D+57.2	R+9.0	R+50.9	2,263	R+10.4%
Brooks County	D+56.8	D+17.9	R+14.6	2,470	D+16.8%
Miller County	D+56.0	D+11.1	R+43.9	2,004	R+19.8%
Coweta County	D+55.9	D+11.7	R+37.2	3,853	R+15.1%
Emanuel County	D+55.6	D+28.3	R+22.9	3,051	R+4.4%
Decatur County	D+55.4	D+5.2	R+21.8	4,761	D+11.3%
Clayton County	D+55.2	R+4.3	R+45.7	7,115	D+1.7%
Appling County	D+54.5	D+20.5	R+19.9	2,225	D+3.8%
Rabun County	D+54.2	D+36.0	R+26.7	1,804	D+5.0%
Peach County	D+53.9	D+34.3	D+11.9	2,002	R+6.6%
Jasper County	D+53.9	D+26.9	R+12.1	1,250	R+11.9%
Spalding County	D+53.8	D+19.2	R+27.5	6,311	R+8.0%
Wilkinson County	D+53.5	D+35.4	D+9.0	1,692	R+8.8%
Colquitt County	D+53.5	D+19.4	R+28.9	5,748	D+1.1%
Tift County	D+53.0	D+16.1	R+23.6	4,083	D+14.7%
Evans County	D+52.8	D+14.2	R+14.6	1,508	D+5.0%
Candler County	D+52.8	D+13.5	R+19.2	1,304	R+2.1%
Jones County	D+52.0	D+27.0	R+10.0	1,590	R+15.4%
Henry County	D+51.3	D+2.7	R+38.1	3,484	R+13.5%
Monroe County	D+50.7	D+33.7	R+5.0	2,051	R+14.9%
Clinch County	D+50.5	D+43.6	R+15.9	2,095	R+3.3%
Crisp County	D+50.3	D+28.8	R+15.3	3,361	D+12.2%
Stewart County	D+49.3	D+39.7	D+23.8	927	D+4.5%
Sumter County	D+49.3	D+24.8	R+10.6	2,879	D+9.9%
Randolph County	D+48.6	D+35.8	R+4.1	2,129	D+1.3%
Glascock County	D+48.1	D+9.1	R+44.6	424	D+24.0%
Carroll County	D+47.9	D+16.5	R+34.3	6,567	R+14.8%
Troup County	D+47.1	D+17.3	R+27.8	8,376	R+11.0%
Lamar County	D+46.8	D+30.2	R+15.6	2,086	R+9.9%
Habersham County	D+45.4	D+32.0	R+37.2	3,131	R+3.0%
Jefferson County	D+45.0	D+34.1	R+3.1	1,863	D+12.1%
Ware County	D+44.2	D+25.6	R+11.1	8,164	D+4.4%
Screven County	D+43.8	D+17.1	R+19.3	1,853	D+4.6%
Chattahoochee County	D+42.7	D+29.3	R+3.5	150	D+19.9%
Hancock County	D+41.7	D+58.1	D+53.2	1,214	R+23.0%
Bartow County	D+40.6	D+40.1	R+19.6	5,176	R+13.5%
Harris County	D+40.4	D+16.3	R+19.9	1,890	R+2.9%
White County	D+40.2	D+25.6	R+37.0	1,568	R+20.1%
Chattooga County	D+38.9	D+36.9	R+6.8	5,505	R+26.0%
Wayne County	D+37.4	D+26.5	R+20.6	3,034	R+2.4%
Hall County	D+37.0	D+21.3	R+34.0	8,741	R+16.6%
Polk County	D+36.4	D+28.9	R+25.0	6,600	R+18.4%
Douglas County	D+35.7	R+1.0	R+48.0	3,112	R+17.4%
Baldwin County	D+35.6	D+8.8	R+19.5	3,355	R+3.1%
Bibb County	D+34.8	D+34.5	D+4.5	22,208	R+6.4%
Clarke County	D+33.8	D+12.2	R+6.3	6,364	R+17.3%
Gordon County	D+31.6	D+24.5	R+36.2	2,994	R+11.3%
DeKalb County	D+31.1	D+4.7	R+15.0	45,633	D+16.6%
Columbia County	D+30.3	R+8.0	R+53.5	1,329	D+7.2%
Lowndes County	D+29.7	R+4.9	R+25.7	6,071	D+7.8%
Burke County	D+28.6	D+23.6	R+0.2	2,021	D+17.8%
Forsyth County	D+27.7	D+15.1	R+50.1	3,129	R+16.7%
Cobb County	D+26.5	R+13.4	R+54.8	18,494	R+15.5%
Paulding County	D+26.0	D+23.9	R+39.5	2,539	R+20.4%
Catoosa County	D+23.6	R+9.4	R+43.8	3,499	R+0.2%
McDuffie County	D+23.1	D+15.8	R+24.2	1,688	D+11.8%
Murray County	D+22.8	D+33.1	R+36.2	2,963	R+19.0%
Thomas County	D+22.2	D+13.8	R+22.8	5,762	R+4.9%
Lumpkin County	D+17.6	D+30.0	R+28.4	1,179	R+28.3%
Fulton County	D+15.6	D+27.9	D+13.8	88,424	R+4.1%
Dougherty County	D+11.9	D+2.6	R+13.5	7,374	R+15.4%
Dade County	D+8.8	R+9.6	R+41.0	1,586	R+21.9%
Dawson County	D+8.1	D+18.7	R+34.6	1,334	R+16.1%
Camden County	D+7.5	D+33.4	R+13.5	2,192	R+27.5%
Cherokee County	D+7.1	D+6.6	R+52.2	3,939	R+13.4%
Haralson County	D+5.4	D+23.1	R+34.1	4,690	R+23.3%
Floyd County	D+5.4	D+19.0	R+27.0	12,588	R+24.9%
Walker County	D+1.9	R+2.0	R+36.4	7,245	R+18.8%
Union County	D+0.9	D+4.7	R+26.5	2,746	R+0.2%
Whitfield County	D+0.7	D+20.0	R+38.7	8,469	R+24.3%
Muscogee County	R+0.1	D+20.4	R+6.7	16,336	R+18.0%
Glynn County	R+0.4	D+2.1	R+28.1	6,169	R+13.5%
Effingham County	R+2.1	D+4.7	R+35.0	1,248	R+0.3%
Liberty County	R+4.0	D+34.0	R+7.1	1,859	R+51.4%
Towns County	R+10.7	D+1.1	R+32.1	1,981	R+16.8%
McIntosh County	R+17.4	D+40.3	D+8.6	1,510	R+35.4%
Gilmer County	R+18.6	D+1.7	R+41.3	3,132	R+19.9%
Richmond County	R+20.1	D+10.0	R+17.0	17,070	R+15.8%
Chatham County	R+25.1	D+3.4	R+15.3	23,218	R+21.2%
Fannin County	R+28.8	R+11.5	R+35.8	5,466	R+8.3%
Pickens County	R+30.9	D+18.3	R+35.6	3,577	R+30.3%

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