1992 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1992 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1992, and was part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Georgia was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR). The presidential contest in the Peach State was the closest of any state that year with Clinton winning 43.47% to 42.88% over Incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-TX) by a razor thin margin of 0.59%. This made it the first time that Georgia had voted Democratic since 1980, when it voted for Jimmy Carter, who was the former Governor. The state flipped back into the Republican column in 1996 and stayed there until 2020. From the mid-1960s into the 1990s, Georgia was a swing state in presidential elections, but also a state where Democrats generally dominated at the state and local level. Billionaire Businessman Ross Perot (I-TX) finished in third, with a significant 13.34% of the popular vote in the Peach state. This is the last time that Democrats would carry Pickens, Franklin, Lumpkin, Morgan, Lincoln, Brantley, Bacon, Worth, Bleckley, Monroe, Jeff Davis, Jones, Candler, Haralson, and Laurens counties. Ware County was tied, making this the last time it did not vote Republican, and the last time any county in the United States was tied between the Democratic and Republican parties. Clinton became the first ever Democrat to win the White House without carrying Banks, Bartow, Gordon, Murray, Rabun, Rockdale, Spalding, Stephens, or White Counties, as well as the first to do so without carrying Coweta or Ware Counties since James K. Polk in 1844, the first to do so without carrying Habersham, Hall, Jackson, or Madison Counties since Franklin Pierce in 1852, the first to do so without carrying Henry, Troup, or Upson Counties since James Buchanan in 1856, the first to do so without carrying Towns County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, the first to do so without carrying Dawson County since Harry S. Truman in 1948, and the first to do so without carrying Union or Whitfield Counties since John F. Kennedy in 1960. Despite Clinton's victory in the Peach state, Republicans made significant gains during the coinciding congressional elections with former state Senator and Peace Corps Director Paul Coverdell's (R) victory over Incumbent U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler (D) in the Senate election runoff and gaining three of Georgia's U.S. House seats. Georgia weighed in for this election as 5 points more Republican than the national average. Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 

 Atkinson
 Bacon
 Baldwin
 Ben Hill
 Berrien
 Bibb
 Bleckley
 Brantley
 Brooks
 Burke
 Butts
 Candler
 Chattahoochee
 Chattooga
 Clayton
 Cook
 Crisp
 Decatur
 Dodge
 Dougherty
 Early
 Elbert
 Emanuel
 Franklin
 Grady
 Haralson
 Hart
 Heard
 Irwin
 Jasper
 Jeff Davis
 Jefferson
 Jenkins
 Johnson
 Jones
 Lamar
 Lanier
 Laurens
 Liberty
 Lincoln
 Long
 Lumpkin
 Meriwether
 Miller
 Mitchell
 Monroe
 Montgomery
 Morgan
 Muscogee
 Newton
 Pickens
 Polk
 Putnam
 Richmond
 Schley
 Screven
 Seminole
 Sumter
 Taylor
 Telfair
 Terrell
 Treutlen
 Turner
 Ware (Tied in 1992)
 Washington
 Wheeler
 Wilcox
 Wilkes
 Worth

Notes

References

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1992 Georgia (U.S. state) elections