Georgia presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Georgia by 5.16 points (211,141 votes), winning 16 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 16
Votes counted: 4,092,373
GA result: R+5.2
Compared with the nation: 7.2 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 2.7 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	2,089,104	51.00%	16
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	1,877,963	45.90%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	125,306	3.10%	—
Total votes		4,092,373

Sources: ga.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Georgia Secretary of State, General Election November 8, 2016 official results (Clarity summary print, 11/22/2016): President of the United States, statewide; three candidates listed
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 3 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
DONALD J. TRUMP (REP)	REP	2,089,104	51.05%
HILLARY CLINTON (DEM)	DEM	1,877,963	45.89%
GARY JOHNSON (LIB)	LIB	125,306	3.06%
Total as printed		159

Notes on how this document was read

The unlabeled number under the candidates (4,092,373) is the contest total.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Appling	1,434	5,494	84	7,012	57.9
Atkinson	697	1,878	35	2,610	45.2
Bacon	608	3,364	48	4,020	68.6
Baker	650	775	15	1,440	8.7
Baldwin	7,970	7,697	449	16,116	1.7
Banks	684	6,134	157	6,975	78.1
Barrow	6,580	21,108	1,372	29,060	50.0
Bartow	8,212	29,911	1,427	39,550	54.9
Ben Hill	2,101	3,739	96	5,936	27.6
Berrien	1,047	5,422	121	6,590	66.4
Bibb	36,787	24,043	1,766	62,596	20.4
Bleckley	1,101	3,719	154	4,974	52.6
Brantley	619	5,567	115	6,301	78.5
Brooks	2,528	3,701	107	6,336	18.5
Bryan	4,014	10,529	630	15,173	42.9
Bulloch	9,261	15,097	958	25,316	23.1
Burke	4,731	4,491	129	9,351	2.6
Butts	2,566	6,717	231	9,514	43.6
Calhoun	1,179	830	16	2,025	17.2
Camden	5,930	12,310	661	18,901	33.8
Candler	1,026	2,664	73	3,763	43.5
Carroll	12,464	30,029	1,628	44,121	39.8
Catoosa	4,771	20,876	1,110	26,757	60.2
Charlton	1,004	2,951	61	4,016	48.5
Chatham	62,290	45,688	4,164	112,142	14.8
Chattahoochee	594	751	45	1,390	11.3
Chattooga	1,613	6,462	177	8,252	58.8
Cherokee	25,231	80,649	6,163	112,043	49.5
Clarke	29,603	12,717	2,656	44,976	37.5
Clay	697	566	10	1,273	10.3
Clayton	78,220	12,645	1,994	92,859	70.6
Clinch	686	1,727	42	2,455	42.4
Cobb	160,121	152,912	17,786	330,819	2.2
Coffee	4,094	9,588	233	13,915	39.5
Colquitt	3,463	9,898	263	13,624	47.2
Columbia	18,887	43,085	2,771	64,743	37.4
Cook	1,753	4,176	128	6,057	40.0
Coweta	16,583	42,533	2,629	61,745	42.0
Crawford	1,421	3,635	120	5,176	42.8
Crisp	2,837	4,549	126	7,512	22.8
Dade	965	5,051	226	6,242	65.5
Dawson	1,448	9,900	417	11,765	71.8
DeKalb	251,370	51,468	11,919	314,757	63.5
Decatur	4,124	6,020	142	10,286	18.4
Dodge	1,839	5,021	149	7,009	45.4
Dooly	1,872	1,951	36	3,859	2.0
Dougherty	23,311	10,232	544	34,087	38.4
Douglas	31,005	24,817	1,916	57,738	10.7
Early	2,168	2,552	65	4,785	8.0
Echols	156	1,007	19	1,182	72.0
Effingham	4,853	17,874	731	23,458	55.5
Elbert	2,539	5,292	156	7,987	34.5
Emanuel	2,435	5,335	90	7,860	36.9
Evans	1,130	2,404	79	3,613	35.3
Fannin	1,923	9,632	257	11,812	65.3
Fayette	23,284	35,048	2,581	60,913	19.3
Floyd	9,159	24,114	1,335	34,608	43.2
Forsyth	23,462	69,851	4,908	98,221	47.2
Franklin	1,243	7,054	205	8,502	68.3
Fulton	297,051	117,783	16,557	431,391	41.6
Gilmer	1,965	10,477	331	12,773	66.6
Glascock	138	1,235	17	1,390	78.9
Glynn	11,775	21,512	976	34,263	28.4
Gordon	3,181	15,191	587	18,959	63.3
Grady	3,013	6,053	147	9,213	33.0
Greene	3,199	5,490	163	8,852	25.9
Gwinnett	166,153	146,989	15,189	328,331	5.8
Habersham	2,483	13,190	570	16,243	65.9
Hall	16,180	51,733	2,781	70,694	50.3
Hancock	2,701	843	36	3,580	51.9
Haralson	1,475	9,585	297	11,357	71.4
Harris	4,086	11,936	480	16,502	47.6
Hart	2,585	7,286	246	10,117	46.5
Heard	743	3,370	110	4,223	62.2
Henry	50,057	45,724	2,985	98,766	4.4
Houston	22,553	35,430	2,096	60,079	21.4
Irwin	891	2,716	63	3,670	49.7
Jackson	4,491	21,784	915	27,190	63.6
Jasper	1,544	4,360	141	6,045	46.6
Jeff Davis	901	4,104	91	5,096	62.9
Jefferson	3,821	3,063	84	6,968	10.9
Jenkins	1,123	1,895	38	3,056	25.3
Johnson	1,136	2,519	31	3,686	37.5
Jones	3,961	8,305	285	12,551	34.6
Lamar	2,270	5,190	152	7,612	38.4
Lanier	806	1,984	81	2,871	41.0
Laurens	6,752	12,411	367	19,530	29.0
Lee	3,170	10,646	327	14,143	52.9
Liberty	9,556	6,134	453	16,143	21.2
Lincoln	1,273	2,759	70	4,102	36.2
Long	1,360	2,626	131	4,117	30.8
Lowndes	15,064	21,635	1,106	37,805	17.4
Lumpkin	2,220	9,619	586	12,425	59.5
Macon	2,705	1,540	42	4,287	27.2
Madison	2,425	9,201	372	11,998	56.5
Marion	1,213	1,921	56	3,190	22.2
McDuffie	3,699	5,432	137	9,268	18.7
McIntosh	2,303	3,487	113	5,903	20.1
Meriwether	3,804	5,222	191	9,217	15.4
Miller	623	1,891	30	2,544	49.8
Mitchell	3,493	4,279	108	7,880	10.0
Monroe	3,571	8,832	284	12,687	41.5
Montgomery	847	2,670	59	3,576	51.0
Morgan	2,663	6,559	253	9,475	41.1
Murray	1,800	10,341	317	12,458	68.6
Muscogee	39,851	26,976	2,205	69,032	18.7
Newton	21,943	20,913	1,131	43,987	2.3
Oconee	5,581	13,425	1,143	20,149	38.9
Oglethorpe	1,831	4,625	218	6,674	41.9
Paulding	18,025	44,662	2,203	64,890	41.0
Peach	5,100	5,413	239	10,752	2.9
Pickens	1,979	11,651	408	14,038	68.9
Pierce	903	6,302	106	7,311	73.8
Pike	1,240	7,278	207	8,725	69.2
Polk	2,867	11,014	334	14,215	57.3
Pulaski	1,104	2,437	64	3,605	37.0
Putnam	2,758	6,544	186	9,488	39.9
Quitman	461	575	8	1,044	10.9
Rabun	1,444	6,287	261	7,992	60.6
Randolph	1,598	1,271	30	2,899	11.3
Richmond	48,814	24,461	2,240	75,515	32.2
Rockdale	23,255	13,478	1,136	37,869	25.8
Schley	401	1,472	36	1,909	56.1
Screven	2,300	3,305	110	5,715	17.6
Seminole	1,189	2,345	54	3,588	32.2
Spalding	9,357	15,646	701	25,704	24.5
Stephens	1,837	7,686	292	9,815	59.6
Stewart	1,222	805	31	2,058	20.3
Sumter	5,520	5,276	178	10,974	2.2
Talbot	2,002	1,196	48	3,246	24.8
Taliaferro	545	349	3	897	21.9
Tattnall	1,681	5,096	126	6,903	49.5
Taylor	1,296	2,064	48	3,408	22.5
Telfair	1,313	2,450	33	3,796	30.0
Terrell	2,267	1,874	48	4,189	9.4
Thomas	7,142	11,228	432	18,802	21.7
Tift	4,347	9,584	288	14,219	36.8
Toombs	2,338	6,615	185	9,138	46.8
Towns	1,210	5,383	171	6,764	61.7
Treutlen	862	1,809	32	2,703	35.0
Troup	9,713	15,750	648	26,111	23.1
Turner	1,246	2,095	57	3,398	25.0
Twiggs	1,971	2,035	53	4,059	1.6
Union	1,963	9,852	248	12,063	65.4
Upson	3,475	7,292	167	10,934	34.9
Walker	4,215	18,950	791	23,956	61.5
Walton	8,292	31,125	1,281	40,698	56.1
Ware	3,440	8,513	231	12,184	41.6
Warren	1,314	991	29	2,334	13.8
Washington	4,200	4,149	112	8,461	0.6
Wayne	2,041	8,153	219	10,413	58.7
Webster	473	630	13	1,116	14.1
Wheeler	646	1,421	35	2,102	36.9
White	1,674	9,761	388	11,823	68.4
Whitfield	7,937	21,537	1,184	30,658	44.4
Wilcox	852	2,096	28	2,976	41.8
Wilkes	1,848	2,572	66	4,486	16.1
Wilkinson	1,894	2,333	60	4,287	10.2
Worth	2,020	6,152	123	8,295	49.8

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 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Georgia by 5.16 percentage points (211,141 votes).

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 2016?

Georgia cast 16 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Georgia in 2016?

4,092,373 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Georgia in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 128, Hillary Clinton 31 (out of 159 counties with results).

How did Georgia change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 2.7 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 7.8 points to Republican by 5.2 points.

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