Georgia presidential election results 2008

John McCain carried Georgia by 5.21 points (204,607 votes), winning 15 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 15
Votes counted: 3,924,440
GA result: R+5.2
Compared with the nation: 12.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 2004: 11.4 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
John McCain	Republican	2,048,744	52.20%	15
Barack Obama	Democratic	1,844,137	47.00%	—
Total votes		3,924,440

Sources: 2008

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	John McCain	Others	Total	Margin
Appling	1,846	5,085	65	6,996	46.3
Atkinson	938	1,941	25	2,904	34.5
Bacon	817	3,089	32	3,938	57.7
Baker	846	828	13	1,687	1.1
Baldwin	8,587	7,823	127	16,537	4.6
Banks	1,027	5,120	94	6,241	65.6
Barrow	6,657	17,625	300	24,582	44.6
Bartow	9,662	25,976	455	36,093	45.2
Ben Hill	2,590	3,417	29	6,036	13.7
Berrien	1,471	4,901	77	6,449	53.2
Bibb	38,987	27,037	344	66,368	18.0
Bleckley	1,380	3,657	34	5,071	44.9
Brantley	1,119	5,080	78	6,277	63.1
Brooks	2,669	3,507	25	6,201	13.5
Bryan	3,636	9,112	97	12,845	42.6
Bulloch	9,586	14,174	160	23,920	19.2
Burke	5,233	4,344	49	9,626	9.2
Butts	3,065	5,947	79	9,091	31.7
Calhoun	1,342	862	7	2,211	21.7
Camden	6,482	10,502	100	17,084	23.5
Candler	1,209	2,286	23	3,518	30.6
Carroll	14,334	28,661	503	43,498	32.9
Catoosa	6,025	18,218	253	24,496	49.8
Charlton	1,197	2,466	22	3,685	34.4
Chatham	62,755	46,829	654	110,238	14.4
Chattahoochee	830	811	12	1,653	1.1
Chattooga	2,596	5,572	139	8,307	35.8
Cherokee	22,350	70,279	1,143	93,772	51.1
Clarke	29,591	15,333	586	45,510	31.3
Clay	879	558	3	1,440	22.3
Clayton	82,527	16,506	405	99,438	66.4
Clinch	989	1,678	29	2,696	25.6
Cobb	141,216	170,957	3,271	315,444	9.4
Coffee	4,811	8,872	64	13,747	29.5
Colquitt	4,139	9,185	111	13,435	37.6
Columbia	15,703	39,322	326	55,351	42.7
Cook	2,075	3,782	46	5,903	28.9
Coweta	15,521	37,571	457	53,549	41.2
Crawford	1,832	3,358	50	5,240	29.1
Crisp	3,085	4,424	41	7,550	17.7
Dade	1,612	4,703	93	6,408	48.2
Dawson	1,632	8,242	100	9,974	66.3
DeKalb	254,594	65,581	2,126	322,301	58.6
Decatur	4,424	5,890	60	10,374	14.1
Dodge	2,595	5,543	74	8,212	35.9
Dooly	2,138	1,991	31	4,160	3.5
Dougherty	26,135	12,547	164	38,846	35.0
Douglas	27,825	26,812	446	55,083	1.8
Early	2,603	2,711	21	5,335	2.0
Echols	201	981	5	1,187	65.7
Effingham	4,936	15,230	150	20,316	50.7
Elbert	3,366	4,868	83	8,317	18.1
Emanuel	3,068	5,110	64	8,242	24.8
Evans	1,374	2,462	19	3,855	28.2
Fannin	2,611	7,807	166	10,584	49.1
Fayette	20,313	38,501	507	59,321	30.7
Floyd	10,691	23,132	390	34,213	36.4
Forsyth	15,406	59,166	804	75,376	58.1
Franklin	1,914	6,069	90	8,073	51.5
Fulton	272,000	130,136	3,492	405,628	35.0
Gilmer	2,614	8,408	127	11,149	52.0
Glascock	210	1,202	16	1,428	69.5
Glynn	12,676	20,479	186	33,341	23.4
Gordon	4,268	13,113	226	17,607	50.2
Grady	3,539	5,775	51	9,365	23.9
Greene	3,339	4,532	48	7,919	15.1
Gwinnett	129,025	158,746	2,376	290,147	10.2
Habersham	2,900	11,766	142	14,808	59.9
Hall	14,457	44,962	509	59,928	50.9
Hancock	3,535	795	14	4,344	63.1
Haralson	2,248	8,658	191	11,097	57.8
Harris	4,184	10,648	76	14,908	43.4
Hart	3,365	6,537	100	10,002	31.7
Heard	1,042	3,133	50	4,225	49.5
Henry	40,527	47,115	587	88,229	7.5
Houston	22,094	33,392	445	55,931	20.2
Irwin	1,197	2,605	26	3,828	36.8
Jackson	4,950	17,776	234	22,960	55.9
Jasper	1,935	3,916	53	5,904	33.6
Jeff Davis	1,356	3,867	55	5,278	47.6
Jefferson	4,149	3,061	24	7,234	15.0
Jenkins	1,482	1,936	22	3,440	13.2
Johnson	1,198	2,426	23	3,647	33.7
Jones	4,572	7,782	84	12,438	25.8
Lamar	2,752	4,873	63	7,688	27.6
Lanier	1,062	1,787	24	2,873	25.2
Laurens	7,769	12,052	116	19,937	21.5
Lee	3,100	9,925	62	13,087	52.2
Liberty	10,474	5,828	74	16,376	28.4
Lincoln	1,650	2,731	35	4,416	24.5
Long	1,288	2,119	43	3,450	24.1
Lowndes	17,651	21,296	293	39,240	9.3
Lumpkin	2,586	8,326	163	11,075	51.8
Macon	3,251	1,712	21	4,984	30.9
Madison	2,965	8,226	174	11,365	46.3
Marion	1,381	1,772	35	3,188	12.3
McDuffie	3,989	5,400	155	9,544	14.8
McIntosh	2,905	3,282	49	6,236	6.0
Meriwether	4,465	4,982	57	9,504	5.4
Miller	818	1,899	21	2,738	39.5
Mitchell	3,872	4,201	47	8,120	4.1
Monroe	4,106	7,933	92	12,131	31.5
Montgomery	1,045	2,521	24	3,590	41.1
Morgan	3,091	5,987	73	9,151	31.6
Murray	3,026	8,180	176	11,382	45.3
Muscogee	44,158	29,568	339	74,065	19.7
Newton	20,827	20,337	271	41,435	1.2
Oconee	4,825	12,120	187	17,132	42.6
Oglethorpe	2,232	4,144	71	6,447	29.7
Paulding	17,229	39,192	564	56,985	38.5
Peach	5,927	5,173	65	11,165	6.8
Pickens	2,595	10,004	187	12,786	57.9
Pierce	1,253	5,500	38	6,791	62.5
Pike	1,575	6,547	81	8,203	60.6
Polk	4,052	9,850	211	14,113	41.1
Pulaski	1,377	2,553	23	3,953	29.7
Putnam	3,102	5,966	64	9,132	31.4
Quitman	597	509	8	1,114	7.9
Rabun	2,001	5,487	111	7,599	45.9
Randolph	1,833	1,370	12	3,215	14.4
Richmond	52,100	26,842	391	79,333	31.8
Rockdale	20,526	16,921	259	37,706	9.6
Schley	479	1,252	7	1,738	44.5
Screven	3,024	3,423	34	6,481	6.2
Seminole	1,660	2,315	21	3,996	16.4
Spalding	10,141	14,885	229	25,255	18.8
Stephens	2,705	7,689	123	10,517	47.4
Stewart	1,305	783	17	2,105	24.8
Sumter	6,454	5,717	64	12,235	6.0
Talbot	2,369	1,301	30	3,700	28.9
Taliaferro	643	339	8	990	30.7
Tattnall	1,932	4,730	52	6,714	41.7
Taylor	1,536	2,021	26	3,583	13.5
Telfair	1,862	2,486	26	4,374	14.3
Terrell	2,501	1,890	25	4,416	13.8
Thomas	7,720	10,642	97	18,459	15.8
Tift	4,749	9,431	77	14,257	32.8
Toombs	2,964	6,658	66	9,688	38.1
Towns	1,391	4,292	56	5,739	50.5
Treutlen	1,112	1,826	16	2,954	24.2
Troup	10,455	15,391	182	26,028	19.0
Turner	1,427	2,096	30	3,553	18.8
Twiggs	2,402	2,087	30	4,519	7.0
Union	2,486	8,013	135	10,634	52.0
Upson	4,061	7,291	69	11,421	28.3
Walker	6,095	17,110	337	23,542	46.8
Walton	8,469	27,253	304	36,026	52.1
Ware	4,034	8,311	71	12,416	34.4
Warren	1,554	1,087	19	2,660	17.6
Washington	4,607	4,216	40	8,863	4.4
Wayne	2,858	7,601	101	10,560	44.9
Webster	515	588	8	1,111	6.6
Wheeler	794	1,408	8	2,210	27.8
White	2,174	8,467	120	10,761	58.5
Whitfield	8,167	19,230	280	27,677	40.0
Wilcox	978	2,159	26	3,163	37.3
Wilkes	2,315	2,705	32	5,052	7.7
Wilkinson	2,298	2,349	26	4,673	1.1
Worth	2,542	5,780	48	8,370	38.7

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Georgia in 2008?

John McCain won Georgia by 5.21 percentage points (204,607 votes).

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 2008?

Georgia cast 15 electoral votes in 2008.

How many people voted for president in Georgia in 2008?

3,924,440 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Georgia in 2008?

John McCain 125, Barack Obama 34 (out of 159 counties with results).

How did Georgia change from 2004 to 2008?

The margin moved 11.4 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 16.6 points to Republican by 5.2 points.

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