Map: Explore how Georgia counties shifted in the presidential election

As the dust settles in the aftermath of the 2024 general election, the numbers are clear: In battleground Georgia, a key swing state in this year’s presidential contest, former president Donald J. Trump has beat Vice President Kamala Harris, winning the state’s 16 electoral votes with 50.74% of the vote. 
With 99% of the votes counted, the vote margin between Trump and Harris is 2.2 points, or about 117,000 votes — a Republican shift in the vote margin of nearly 5 points since 2020. During the last presidential election, President Joe Biden won the state with roughly 11,000 votes, flipping the state blue for the first time since 1992. 
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Here’s a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s election, and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing. 
The majority of Georgia’s 159 counties saw a Republican shift in this year’s election, with Webster County seeing the largest change at over 10.5 points. In total, 134 counties supported Trump more heavily than they did in 2020, including counties in both 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 to not shift between the two elections.) 
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Henry County was also one of three key Democratic-leaning counties in the Atlanta suburbs that were once Republican strongholds but flipped blue in 2016. Harris managed to overperform Biden in Henry County, but remained on par with Biden’s 2020 margins in the more populous Cobb and Gwinnett counties. 
All five of Georgia’s “pivot” counties —  areas that voted for Obama twice and then voted twice for Trump — once again skewed Republican. Baker, Dooly, Peach, Quitman and Twiggs County all voted for Trump by wider margins than they did 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, voting for Biden during the 2020 election and Trump in 2024. These counties were also among a group of five split-ticket counties in the 2022 midterm elections, with residents voting for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, alongside Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. The two remaining counties, Clay and Sumter, both went to Harris by small margins. 
Maya Homan is a 2024 election fellow at USA TODAY who focuses on Georgia politics. She is @MayaHoman on X, formerly Twitter.