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1876–2024
Congressional District 11·Georgia

Georgia 11th Congressional District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 15 points.

18762024·38 elections
GA
Latest
R+15
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
717,585
2024 ACS

Georgia 11th Congressional District, Georgia: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+15%. Republican peak: R+66 in 1972.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+15MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
717,5852024 5-year
Median household income
$99,7952024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
62.8%2024 5-year
Black
17.7%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
13.1%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+65 in 1932MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+66 in 1972MIT Election Lab
10 counties · 2 D · 8 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−14.9%
161,908219,542386,911
R
−13.5%
152,005200,541358,290
R
−22.5%
105,259171,239293,551
R
−31.7%
88,630173,385267,159
R
−26.7%
96,169167,282266,467
R
−36.8%
70,836154,665227,558
R
−29.8%
60,521114,548181,048
R
−21.4%
52,77184,576148,535
R
−18.6%
45,65971,458138,504
R
−43.6%
28,40172,841101,825
R
−48.8%
22,31064,85587,165
R
−0.8%
32,99633,58469,468
D
+27.0%
37,07921,30358,382
R
−65.7%
6,64232,07238,713
O
−16.7%
8,06514,59739,059
R
−1.2%
16,84117,23334,075
D
+20.5%
13,4008,84722,247
D
+17.5%
12,0068,43620,441
D
+35.7%
11,9155,64617,561
D
+36.8%
6,8092,86910,718
D
+38.5%
6,0502,6848,735
D
+43.5%
6,0852,3838,502
D
+39.9%
5,6452,4198,080
D
+65.2%
5,7011,1866,921
R
−25.4%
2,4654,1436,608
D
+11.9%
2,8442,2205,261
R
−11.1%
2,3202,8985,218
D
+47.4%
3,2607795,237
D
+48.4%
2,4933174,499
R
−16.3%
1,5692,2344,073
D
+15.1%
2,1341,4924,257
D
+3.9%
2,1151,9514,230
D
+5.7%
2,6472,3525,146
D
+28.8%
3,4151,6096,265
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
13.8%
Irish
9.2%
German
9.0%
American
5.7%
Italian
3.7%
Scottish
2.5%
Polish
0.9%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
83.2%
speak English only
Spanish9.9%
Other Indo-European3.7%
Asian & Pacific Islander1.8%
Other languages1.3%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
15.9%
Catholic & Orthodox
11.7%
Other Christian
10.3%
Methodist
7.3%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.9%
Non-Christian
1.5%
Mainline Protestant
1.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 49.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Georgia 11th Congressional District sits in the Deep South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the long memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Georgia 11th Congressional District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Georgia 11th Congressional District, by a one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-six points in 1972. The 2024 margin was fifteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Georgia 11th Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 63% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $99,795, and a 9% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Congressional District 11, Georgia — The Long Memory. Akashic Intelligence — The Long Memory. https://tiers.akashic.app/cd/1311/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
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Frequently asked questions

How did Congressional District 11, Georgia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Congressional District 11, Georgia voted Republican by 14.9 points (R+15), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 386,911 votes cast, 161,908 went Democratic and 219,542 went Republican.
What is Congressional District 11, Georgia's political archetype?
Akashic classifies Congressional District 11, Georgia as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 16 times, Republican 17 times, and other 1 times.
When did Congressional District 11, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 11, Georgia voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Congressional District 11, Georgia?
Congressional District 11, Georgia has a population of 717,585 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Congressional District 11, Georgia?
Median household income in Congressional District 11, Georgia is $99,795 — above the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Congressional District 11, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 11, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 17 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.