Trump wins Georgia: State election results and voting history

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Updated 6 November 2024 at 12:59 am·1-min read

Former President Donald Trump has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press, a state he narrowly lost to Joe Biden in 2020.

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↩️ Past election history

The results of the last three presidential elections in Georgia are as follows:

2020: Joe Biden (D) defeated Donald Trump (R) by 0.24%.
2016: Donald Trump (R) defeated Hillary Clinton (D) by 5.13%.
2012: Mitt Romney (R) defeated Barack Obama (D) by 7.82%.

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📈 Which way the state was trending

For more than 20 years, Georgia had been a reliably red state in presidential elections — until 2020, when Biden narrowly defeated Trump by just 11,779 votes, a margin of 0.24%, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the state since Bill Clinton did in 1992.

📌 Why it matters

Georgia was ground zero for Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. During an infamous post-election phone call, Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 more votes, the exact number he needed to win.

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