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1988 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 1988 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

1988 United States presidential election in Georgia

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Nominee George H. W. Bush Michael Dukakis
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Massachusetts
Running mate Dan Quayle Lloyd Bentsen
Electoral vote 12 0
Popular vote 1,081,331 714,792
Percentage 59.75% 39.50%

County Results

President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

George H. W. Bush
Republican

Georgia was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

The election was very partisan for Georgia, with more than 99 percent of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties, and only four parties represented on the statewide ballot.[1] Only two counties failed to give one of the major party nominees an outright majority: Clarke, which gave Dukakis a narrow plurality, and Bibb, which gave Bush a narrow plurality. Bush won four counties that had voted for Walter Mondale in 1984, out of only seven such counties nationwide.[2][a]

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Terrell County, Jefferson County, Bibb County, Muscogee County, Liberty County, Richmond County, Dougherty County, and Clayton County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[3]

Though the Democrats picked the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta as the venue for their National Convention, Georgia weighed in for this election as about 12% more Republican than the national average. This was also the first time that Georgia voted Republican in back-to-back elections.

Bush won Georgia by a landslide margin of 20.25%. His 59.75% vote share made it his 11th-best state in the nation, as Georgia voted 12.5% more Republican than the nation. Even though Dukakis improved on Mondale substantially nationwide, he fell well short even of matching his national vote share in most of the South, including Georgia, marking the region's increasing tendency as an electoral bulwark for the Republican Party except when the Democrats nominated a Southerner at the top of the ticket. Dukakis carried the state's most populous county--Fulton, home of Atlanta--by double digits, and also narrowly carried the Atlanta-area suburb of DeKalb County, the state's second-largest county. However, Bush countered by carrying the next three largest counties by strong, double-digit margins: Cobb and Gwinnett, suburban counties to Atlanta's north, and Chatham, home to Savannah. In particular, he exceeded 70% in both Cobb and Gwinnett. In Chatham, he improved slightly on Reagan's 1984 vote share.

Bush also did well throughout rural Georgia apart from the state's share of the Black Belt, although, despite their large size, Gwinnett and Cobb accounted for his 6th- and 11th-best vote shares out of the state's counties, respectively. As in 1984, Jimmy Carter's home county of Sumter voted Republican, with Bush in fact improving upon Reagan's vote share.

Results

1988 United States presidential election in Georgia
Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George H. W. Bush Dan Quayle 1,081,331 59.75% 12
Democratic Michael Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen 714,792 39.50% 0
Libertarian Ron Paul Andre Marrou 8,435 0.47% 0
New Alliance Party Lenora Fulani Joyce Dattner 5,099 0.28% 0
Write-Ins 15[b] >0.01% 0
Totals 1,809,672 100.0% 12

Results by county

County George Herbert Walker Bush
Republican
Michael Stanley Dukakis
Democratic
Ronald Ernest Paul[4]
Libertarian
Leonora Branch Fulani[4]
New Alliance
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Appling 3,000 61.74% 1,837 37.81% 13 0.27% 9 0.19% 1,163 23.93% 4,859
Atkinson 1,126 55.60% 887 43.80% 5 0.25% 7 0.35% 239 11.80% 2,025
Bacon 1,407 64.13% 780 35.55% 5 0.23% 2 0.09% 627 28.58% 2,194
Baker 629 46.66% 707 52.45% 10 0.74% 2 0.15% -78 -5.79% 1,348
Baldwin 5,852 59.05% 4,008 40.44% 26 0.26% 25 0.25% 1,844 18.61% 9,911
Banks 1,590 61.58% 984 38.11% 3 0.12% 5 0.19% 606 23.47% 2,582
Barrow 4,738 65.64% 2,442 33.83% 32 0.44% 6 0.08% 2,296 31.81% 7,218
Bartow 8,039 61.63% 4,884 37.44% 113 0.87% 8 0.06% 3,155 24.19% 13,044
Ben Hill 2,005 51.17% 1,867 47.65% 32 0.82% 14 0.36% 138 3.52% 3,918
Berrien 2,030 59.36% 1,381 40.38% 7 0.20% 2 0.06% 649 18.98% 3,420
Bibb 22,179 49.96% 22,084 49.74% 78 0.18% 55 0.12% 95 0.21% 44,396
Bleckley 1,950 62.14% 1,175 37.44% 9 0.29% 4 0.13% 775 24.70% 3,138
Brantley 1,539 51.18% 1,450 48.22% 10 0.33% 8 0.27% 89 2.96% 3,007
Brooks 2,136 58.54% 1,500 41.11% 6 0.16% 7 0.19% 636 17.43% 3,649
Bryan 2,802 66.16% 1,423 33.60% 5 0.12% 5 0.12% 1,379 32.56% 4,235
Bulloch 6,354 64.88% 3,417 34.89% 19 0.19% 4 0.04% 2,937 29.99% 9,794
Burke 2,988 50.89% 2,861 48.72% 10 0.17% 13 0.22% 127 2.16% 5,872
Butts 2,184 55.66% 1,730 44.09% 4 0.10% 6 0.15% 454 11.57% 3,924
Calhoun 644 41.52% 901 58.09% 6 0.39% 0 0.00% -257 -16.57% 1,551
Camden 2,913 57.68% 2,090 41.39% 35 0.69% 12 0.24% 823 16.30% 5,050
Candler 1,261 58.82% 877 40.90% 4 0.19% 2 0.09% 384 17.91% 2,144
Carroll 10,754 69.20% 4,706 30.28% 49 0.32% 32 0.21% 6,048 38.92% 15,541
Catoosa 9,319 72.02% 3,588 27.73% 21 0.16% 12 0.09% 5,731 44.29% 12,940
Charlton 1,327 57.60% 943 40.93% 18 0.78% 16 0.69% 384 16.67% 2,304
Chatham 35,623 58.12% 25,063 40.89% 336 0.55% 267 0.44% 10,560 17.23% 61,289
Chattahoochee 454 55.57% 362 44.31% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 92 11.26% 817
Chattooga 3,665 62.17% 2,206 37.42% 22 0.37% 2 0.03% 1,459 24.75% 5,895
Cherokee 14,593 76.45% 4,378 22.94% 101 0.53% 16 0.08% 10,215 53.52% 19,088
Clarke 11,150 49.66% 11,154 49.68% 109 0.49% 39 0.17% -4 -0.02% 22,452
Clay 398 40.04% 595 59.86% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% -197 -19.82% 994
Clayton 28,225 65.43% 14,689 34.05% 167 0.39% 56 0.13% 13,536 31.38% 43,137
Clinch 863 58.91% 594 40.55% 4 0.27% 4 0.27% 269 18.36% 1,465
Cobb 106,621 72.70% 39,297 26.79% 607 0.41% 133 0.09% 67,324 45.91% 146,658
Coffee 4,019 58.91% 2,777 40.71% 20 0.29% 6 0.09% 1,242 18.21% 6,822
Colquitt 5,653 65.04% 2,998 34.50% 24 0.28% 16 0.18% 2,655 30.55% 8,691
Columbia 16,401 77.75% 4,617 21.89% 56 0.27% 20 0.09% 11,784 55.86% 21,094
Cook 1,555 55.69% 1,226 43.91% 4 0.14% 7 0.25% 329 11.78% 2,792
Coweta 9,668 69.41% 4,212 30.24% 33 0.24% 16 0.11% 5,456 39.17% 13,929
Crawford 1,235 47.55% 1,340 51.60% 14 0.54% 8 0.31% -105 -4.04% 2,597
Crisp 2,916 62.94% 1,690 36.48% 15 0.32% 12 0.26% 1,226 26.46% 4,633
Dade 2,539 69.16% 1,120 30.51% 6 0.16% 6 0.16% 1,419 38.65% 3,671
Dawson 1,908 71.03% 761 28.33% 16 0.60% 1 0.04% 1,147 42.70% 2,686
Decatur 3,866 61.95% 2,348 37.62% 9 0.14% 18 0.29% 1,518 24.32% 6,241
DeKalb 90,179 48.94% 92,521 50.21% 945 0.51% 605 0.33% -2,342 -1.27% 184,250
Dodge 2,677 54.95% 2,164 44.42% 15 0.31% 16 0.33% 513 10.53% 4,872
Dooly 1,386 45.88% 1,613 53.39% 18 0.60% 4 0.13% -227 -7.51% 3,021
Dougherty 15,520 50.86% 12,579 41.22% 1,415 4.64% 1,003 3.29% 2,941 9.64% 30,517
Douglas 13,493 72.24% 5,086 27.23% 77 0.41% 22 0.12% 8,407 45.01% 18,678
Early 1,918 58.46% 1,359 41.42% 2 0.06% 2 0.06% 559 17.04% 3,281
Echols 422 62.99% 245 36.57% 2 0.30% 1 0.15% 177 26.42% 670
Effingham 3,933 67.13% 1,905 32.51% 14 0.24% 7 0.12% 2,028 34.61% 5,859
Elbert 2,796 56.77% 2,118 43.01% 11 0.22% 0 0.00% 678 13.77% 4,925
Emanuel 3,530 58.95% 2,387 39.86% 54 0.90% 17 0.28% 1,143 19.09% 5,988
Evans 1,707 62.01% 1,023 37.16% 14 0.51% 9 0.33% 684 24.85% 2,753
Fannin 4,271 66.45% 2,123 33.03% 27 0.42% 6 0.09% 2,148 33.42% 6,427
Fayette 16,443 77.84% 4,593 21.74% 73 0.35% 14 0.07% 11,850 56.10% 21,123
Floyd 14,697 62.85% 8,548 36.55% 111 0.47% 30 0.13% 6,149 26.29% 23,386
Forsyth 7,947 76.83% 2,347 22.69% 42 0.41% 8 0.08% 5,600 54.14% 10,344
Franklin 2,615 58.57% 1,842 41.25% 6 0.13% 2 0.04% 773 17.31% 4,465
Fulton 91,785 42.75% 120,752 56.25% 906 0.42% 1,246 0.58% -28,967 -13.49% 214,689
Gilmer 3,353 70.65% 1,363 28.72% 24 0.51% 6 0.13% 1,990 41.93% 4,746
Glascock 580 73.42% 210 26.58% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 370 46.84% 790
Glynn 11,126 63.18% 6,339 35.99% 78 0.44% 68 0.39% 4,787 27.18% 17,611
Gordon 6,051 71.65% 2,369 28.05% 18 0.21% 7 0.08% 3,682 43.60% 8,445
Grady 2,989 61.10% 1,883 38.49% 10 0.20% 10 0.20% 1,106 22.61% 4,892
Greene 1,432 43.93% 1,818 55.77% 9 0.28% 1 0.03% -386 -11.84% 3,260
Gwinnett 66,372 75.47% 20,948 23.82% 523 0.59% 97 0.11% 45,424 51.65% 87,940
Habersham 4,871 69.45% 2,114 30.14% 22 0.31% 7 0.10% 2,757 39.31% 7,014
Hall 17,415 68.71% 7,782 30.71% 110 0.43% 37 0.15% 9,633 38.01% 25,344
Hancock 621 23.99% 1,947 75.20% 11 0.42% 10 0.39% -1,326 -51.22% 2,589
Haralson 4,529 65.17% 2,404 34.59% 15 0.22% 2 0.03% 2,125 30.58% 6,950
Harris 3,414 63.94% 1,905 35.68% 17 0.32% 3 0.06% 1,509 28.26% 5,339
Hart 3,044 54.88% 2,476 44.64% 20 0.36% 7 0.13% 568 10.24% 5,547
Heard 1,551 63.77% 874 35.94% 3 0.12% 4 0.16% 677 27.84% 2,432
Henry 10,882 71.11% 4,348 28.41% 57 0.37% 17 0.11% 6,534 42.69% 15,304
Houston 15,748 64.02% 8,664 35.22% 106 0.43% 79 0.32% 7,084 28.80% 24,597
Irwin 1,226 57.00% 918 42.68% 4 0.19% 3 0.14% 308 14.32% 2,151
Jackson 4,407 62.56% 2,607 37.00% 17 0.24% 14 0.20% 1,800 25.55% 7,045
Jasper 1,474 55.08% 1,188 44.39% 10 0.37% 4 0.15% 286 10.69% 2,676
Jeff Davis 2,050 62.03% 1,242 37.58% 7 0.21% 6 0.18% 808 24.45% 3,305
Jefferson 2,788 54.13% 2,346 45.54% 10 0.19% 7 0.14% 442 8.58% 5,151
Jenkins 1,288 57.30% 953 42.39% 7 0.31% 0 0.00% 335 14.90% 2,248
Johnson 1,567 62.83% 927 37.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 640 25.66% 2,494
Jones 3,618 57.41% 2,662 42.24% 11 0.17% 11 0.17% 956 15.17% 6,302
Lamar 2,035 57.83% 1,416 40.24% 53 1.51% 15 0.43% 619 17.59% 3,519
Lanier 725 50.81% 698 48.91% 1 0.07% 3 0.21% 27 1.89% 1,427
Laurens 6,929 57.89% 4,879 40.76% 133 1.11% 29 0.24% 2,050 17.13% 11,970
Lee 2,875 74.04% 995 25.62% 10 0.26% 3 0.08% 1,880 48.42% 3,883
Liberty 3,100 51.24% 2,906 48.03% 32 0.53% 12 0.20% 194 3.21% 6,050
Lincoln 1,417 60.97% 893 38.43% 8 0.34% 6 0.26% 524 22.55% 2,324
Long 858 55.32% 681 43.91% 4 0.26% 8 0.52% 177 11.41% 1,551
Lowndes 10,855 62.63% 6,427 37.08% 35 0.20% 16 0.09% 4,428 25.55% 17,333
Lumpkin 2,688 67.20% 1,286 32.15% 19 0.48% 7 0.18% 1,402 35.05% 4,000
Macon 1,412 38.19% 2,268 61.35% 7 0.19% 10 0.27% -856 -23.15% 3,697
Madison 3,724 69.10% 1,639 30.41% 15 0.28% 11 0.20% 2,085 38.69% 5,389
Marion 804 48.67% 844 51.09% 2 0.12% 2 0.12% -40 -2.42% 1,652
McDuffie 3,231 65.04% 1,704 34.30% 12 0.24% 21 0.42% 1,527 30.74% 4,968
McIntosh 1,273 45.08% 1,527 54.07% 13 0.46% 11 0.39% -254 -8.99% 2,824
Meriwether 3,101 51.31% 2,934 48.54% 9 0.15% 0 0.00% 167 2.76% 6,044
Miller 1,105 68.00% 515 31.69% 2 0.12% 3 0.18% 590 36.31% 1,625
Mitchell 2,590 53.29% 2,260 46.50% 5 0.10% 5 0.10% 330 6.79% 4,860
Monroe 2,570 56.38% 1,970 43.22% 11 0.24% 7 0.15% 600 13.16% 4,558
Montgomery 1,228 57.49% 903 42.28% 5 0.23% 0 0.00% 325 15.22% 2,136
Morgan 2,108 58.10% 1,508 41.57% 12 0.33% 0 0.00% 600 16.54% 3,628
Murray 3,996 70.11% 1,679 29.46% 16 0.28% 9 0.16% 2,317 40.65% 5,700
Muscogee 23,058 54.90% 18,772 44.70% 112 0.27% 58 0.14% 4,286 10.20% 42,000
Newton 5,809 64.77% 3,111 34.69% 35 0.39% 14 0.16% 2,698 30.08% 8,969
Oconee 4,265 67.89% 1,990 31.68% 26 0.41% 1 0.02% 2,275 36.21% 6,282
Oglethorpe 1,951 62.61% 1,154 37.03% 7 0.22% 4 0.13% 797 25.58% 3,116
Paulding 7,329 72.63% 2,717 26.92% 36 0.36% 9 0.09% 4,612 45.70% 10,091
Peach 2,782 48.00% 2,972 51.28% 20 0.35% 22 0.38% -190 -3.28% 5,796
Pickens 3,021 67.52% 1,430 31.96% 14 0.31% 9 0.20% 1,591 35.56% 4,474
Pierce 1,947 55.49% 1,558 44.40% 1 0.03% 3 0.09% 389 11.09% 3,509
Pike 2,074 63.35% 1,176 35.92% 23 0.70% 1 0.03% 898 27.43% 3,274
Polk 5,454 64.46% 2,977 35.18% 23 0.27% 7 0.08% 2,477 29.28% 8,461
Pulaski 1,400 48.48% 1,476 51.11% 7 0.24% 5 0.17% -76 -2.63% 2,888
Putnam 2,111 57.74% 1,532 41.90% 7 0.19% 6 0.16% 579 15.84% 3,656
Quitman 296 40.11% 436 59.08% 4 0.54% 2 0.27% -140 -18.97% 738
Rabun 2,278 63.14% 1,301 36.06% 16 0.44% 13 0.36% 977 27.08% 3,608
Randolph 1,319 48.94% 1,369 50.80% 4 0.15% 3 0.11% -50 -1.86% 2,695
Richmond 27,566 57.12% 20,489 42.46% 118 0.24% 85 0.18% 7,077 14.66% 48,258
Rockdale 12,413 73.77% 4,330 25.73% 65 0.39% 18 0.11% 8,083 48.04% 16,826
Schley 635 58.91% 439 40.72% 3 0.28% 1 0.09% 196 18.18% 1,078
Screven 2,178 59.52% 1,461 39.93% 12 0.33% 8 0.22% 717 19.60% 3,659
Seminole 1,469 55.54% 1,171 44.27% 2 0.08% 3 0.11% 298 11.27% 2,645
Spalding 7,730 63.68% 4,318 35.57% 57 0.47% 33 0.27% 3,412 28.11% 12,138
Stephens 4,329 66.09% 2,185 33.36% 27 0.41% 9 0.14% 2,144 32.73% 6,550
Stewart 832 42.17% 1,136 57.58% 3 0.15% 2 0.10% -304 -15.41% 1,973
Sumter 4,289 55.93% 3,332 43.45% 23 0.30% 24 0.31% 957 12.48% 7,668
Talbot 802 38.93% 1,248 60.58% 6 0.29% 4 0.19% -446 -21.65% 2,060
Taliaferro 306 39.38% 469 60.36% 1 0.13% 1 0.13% -163 -20.98% 777
Tattnall 3,172 65.03% 1,694 34.73% 8 0.16% 4 0.08% 1,478 30.30% 4,878
Taylor 1,145 50.13% 1,134 49.65% 3 0.13% 2 0.09% 11 0.48% 2,284
Telfair 1,805 50.21% 1,765 49.10% 13 0.36% 12 0.33% 40 1.11% 3,595
Terrell 1,517 52.22% 1,383 47.61% 2 0.07% 3 0.10% 134 4.61% 2,905
Thomas 6,572 64.78% 3,530 34.80% 24 0.24% 19 0.19% 3,042 29.99% 10,145
Tift 4,760 65.80% 2,446 33.81% 16 0.22% 12 0.17% 2,314 31.99% 7,234
Toombs 4,433 78.89% 1,152 20.50% 25 0.44% 9 0.16% 3,281 58.39% 5,619
Towns 1,783 65.12% 942 34.40% 11 0.40% 2 0.07% 841 30.72% 2,738
Treutlen 970 57.19% 726 42.81% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 244 14.39% 1,696
Troup 9,484 67.31% 4,562 32.38% 36 0.26% 7 0.05% 4,922 34.94% 14,089
Turner 1,312 50.52% 1,122 43.20% 90 3.47% 73 2.81% 190 7.32% 2,597
Twiggs 1,261 41.96% 1,730 57.57% 9 0.30% 5 0.17% -469 -15.61% 3,005
Union 2,396 65.39% 1,258 34.33% 10 0.27% 0 0.00% 1,138 31.06% 3,664
Upson 4,614 63.05% 2,666 36.43% 26 0.36% 12 0.16% 1,948 26.62% 7,318
Walker 10,487 68.63% 4,753 31.11% 31 0.20% 9 0.06% 5,734 37.53% 15,280
Walton 5,974 65.56% 3,091 33.92% 31 0.34% 16 0.18% 2,883 31.64% 9,112
Ware 4,819 52.59% 4,292 46.84% 26 0.28% 26 0.28% 527 5.75% 9,163
Warren 897 44.78% 1,091 54.47% 6 0.30% 9 0.45% -194 -9.69% 2,003
Washington 2,752 51.12% 2,615 48.58% 5 0.09% 11 0.20% 137 2.55% 5,383
Wayne 3,340 57.93% 2,417 41.92% 8 0.14% 1 0.02% 923 16.01% 5,766
Webster 361 45.70% 427 54.05% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% -66 -8.35% 790
Wheeler 709 51.64% 658 47.92% 4 0.29% 2 0.15% 51 3.71% 1,373
White 2,648 71.65% 1,028 27.81% 19 0.51% 1 0.03% 1,620 43.83% 3,696
Whitfield 12,761 73.12% 4,618 26.46% 40 0.23% 32 0.18% 8,143 46.66% 17,451
Wilcox 1,235 53.26% 1,079 46.53% 5 0.22% 0 0.00% 156 6.73% 2,319
Wilkes 1,810 53.71% 1,549 45.96% 8 0.24% 3 0.09% 261 7.74% 3,370
Wilkinson 1,546 45.30% 1,831 53.65% 25 0.73% 11 0.32% -285 -8.35% 3,413
Worth 2,668 66.55% 1,311 32.70% 20 0.50% 10 0.25% 1,357 33.85% 4,009
Totals 1,081,331 59.75% 714,792 39.50% 8,435 0.47% 5,099 0.28% 366,539 20.25% 1,809,657

See also

Notes

  1. ^ These seven counties that voted for Mondale in 1984 and Bush in 1988 were Lincoln County and Hardeman County, Tennessee – in both of which Bush was only the second-ever GOP winner after Richard Nixon in 1972Strom Thurmond’s home county of Edgefield, South Carolina, and the four Georgia counties of Bibb, Taylor, Telfair and Mitchell.
  2. ^ These write-in votes were not separated by county but given only as a state-wide total.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
  2. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 111 ISBN 0786422173
  3. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  4. ^ a b c "GA US President Race, November 08, 1988". Our Campaigns.

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Main article 1988 United States presidential election The 1988 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8 1988 All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1988 United States presidential election Georgia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College which selected the president and vice president 1988 United States presidential election in Georgia 1984 November 8 1988 1992 Nominee George H W Bush Michael DukakisParty Republican DemocraticHome state Texas MassachusettsRunning mate Dan Quayle Lloyd BentsenElectoral vote 12 0Popular vote 1 081 331 714 792Percentage 59 75 39 50 County Results Bush 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 Dukakis 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 President before electionRonald ReaganRepublican Elected President George H W BushRepublicanGeorgia was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H W Bush of Texas who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen The election was very partisan for Georgia with more than 99 percent of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties and only four parties represented on the statewide ballot 1 Only two counties failed to give one of the major party nominees an outright majority Clarke which gave Dukakis a narrow plurality and Bibb which gave Bush a narrow plurality Bush won four counties that had voted for Walter Mondale in 1984 out of only seven such counties nationwide 2 a As of the 2020 presidential election update this is the last election in which Terrell County Jefferson County Bibb County Muscogee County Liberty County Richmond County Dougherty County and Clayton County voted for a Republican presidential candidate 3 Though the Democrats picked the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta as the venue for their National Convention Georgia weighed in for this election as about 12 more Republican than the national average This was also the first time that Georgia voted Republican in back to back elections Bush won Georgia by a landslide margin of 20 25 His 59 75 vote share made it his 11th best state in the nation as Georgia voted 12 5 more Republican than the nation Even though Dukakis improved on Mondale substantially nationwide he fell well short even of matching his national vote share in most of the South including Georgia marking the region s increasing tendency as an electoral bulwark for the Republican Party except when the Democrats nominated a Southerner at the top of the ticket Dukakis carried the state s most populous county Fulton home of Atlanta by double digits and also narrowly carried the Atlanta area suburb of DeKalb County the state s second largest county However Bush countered by carrying the next three largest counties by strong double digit margins Cobb and Gwinnett suburban counties to Atlanta s north and Chatham home to Savannah In particular he exceeded 70 in both Cobb and Gwinnett In Chatham he improved slightly on Reagan s 1984 vote share Bush also did well throughout rural Georgia apart from the state s share of the Black Belt although despite their large size Gwinnett and Cobb accounted for his 6th and 11th best vote shares out of the state s counties respectively As in 1984 Jimmy Carter s home county of Sumter voted Republican with Bush in fact improving upon Reagan s vote share Contents 1 Results 1 1 Results by county 2 See also 3 Notes 4 ReferencesResults Edit1988 United States presidential election in GeorgiaParty Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votesRepublican George H W Bush Dan Quayle 1 081 331 59 75 12Democratic Michael Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen 714 792 39 50 0Libertarian Ron Paul Andre Marrou 8 435 0 47 0New Alliance Party Lenora Fulani Joyce Dattner 5 099 0 28 0Write Ins 15 b gt 0 01 0Totals 1 809 672 100 0 12Results by county Edit County George Herbert Walker BushRepublican Michael Stanley DukakisDemocratic Ronald Ernest Paul 4 Libertarian Leonora Branch Fulani 4 New Alliance Margin Total votes cast Appling 3 000 61 74 1 837 37 81 13 0 27 9 0 19 1 163 23 93 4 859Atkinson 1 126 55 60 887 43 80 5 0 25 7 0 35 239 11 80 2 025Bacon 1 407 64 13 780 35 55 5 0 23 2 0 09 627 28 58 2 194Baker 629 46 66 707 52 45 10 0 74 2 0 15 78 5 79 1 348Baldwin 5 852 59 05 4 008 40 44 26 0 26 25 0 25 1 844 18 61 9 911Banks 1 590 61 58 984 38 11 3 0 12 5 0 19 606 23 47 2 582Barrow 4 738 65 64 2 442 33 83 32 0 44 6 0 08 2 296 31 81 7 218Bartow 8 039 61 63 4 884 37 44 113 0 87 8 0 06 3 155 24 19 13 044Ben Hill 2 005 51 17 1 867 47 65 32 0 82 14 0 36 138 3 52 3 918Berrien 2 030 59 36 1 381 40 38 7 0 20 2 0 06 649 18 98 3 420Bibb 22 179 49 96 22 084 49 74 78 0 18 55 0 12 95 0 21 44 396Bleckley 1 950 62 14 1 175 37 44 9 0 29 4 0 13 775 24 70 3 138Brantley 1 539 51 18 1 450 48 22 10 0 33 8 0 27 89 2 96 3 007Brooks 2 136 58 54 1 500 41 11 6 0 16 7 0 19 636 17 43 3 649Bryan 2 802 66 16 1 423 33 60 5 0 12 5 0 12 1 379 32 56 4 235Bulloch 6 354 64 88 3 417 34 89 19 0 19 4 0 04 2 937 29 99 9 794Burke 2 988 50 89 2 861 48 72 10 0 17 13 0 22 127 2 16 5 872Butts 2 184 55 66 1 730 44 09 4 0 10 6 0 15 454 11 57 3 924Calhoun 644 41 52 901 58 09 6 0 39 0 0 00 257 16 57 1 551Camden 2 913 57 68 2 090 41 39 35 0 69 12 0 24 823 16 30 5 050Candler 1 261 58 82 877 40 90 4 0 19 2 0 09 384 17 91 2 144Carroll 10 754 69 20 4 706 30 28 49 0 32 32 0 21 6 048 38 92 15 541Catoosa 9 319 72 02 3 588 27 73 21 0 16 12 0 09 5 731 44 29 12 940Charlton 1 327 57 60 943 40 93 18 0 78 16 0 69 384 16 67 2 304Chatham 35 623 58 12 25 063 40 89 336 0 55 267 0 44 10 560 17 23 61 289Chattahoochee 454 55 57 362 44 31 1 0 12 0 0 00 92 11 26 817Chattooga 3 665 62 17 2 206 37 42 22 0 37 2 0 03 1 459 24 75 5 895Cherokee 14 593 76 45 4 378 22 94 101 0 53 16 0 08 10 215 53 52 19 088Clarke 11 150 49 66 11 154 49 68 109 0 49 39 0 17 4 0 02 22 452Clay 398 40 04 595 59 86 1 0 10 0 0 00 197 19 82 994Clayton 28 225 65 43 14 689 34 05 167 0 39 56 0 13 13 536 31 38 43 137Clinch 863 58 91 594 40 55 4 0 27 4 0 27 269 18 36 1 465Cobb 106 621 72 70 39 297 26 79 607 0 41 133 0 09 67 324 45 91 146 658Coffee 4 019 58 91 2 777 40 71 20 0 29 6 0 09 1 242 18 21 6 822Colquitt 5 653 65 04 2 998 34 50 24 0 28 16 0 18 2 655 30 55 8 691Columbia 16 401 77 75 4 617 21 89 56 0 27 20 0 09 11 784 55 86 21 094Cook 1 555 55 69 1 226 43 91 4 0 14 7 0 25 329 11 78 2 792Coweta 9 668 69 41 4 212 30 24 33 0 24 16 0 11 5 456 39 17 13 929Crawford 1 235 47 55 1 340 51 60 14 0 54 8 0 31 105 4 04 2 597Crisp 2 916 62 94 1 690 36 48 15 0 32 12 0 26 1 226 26 46 4 633Dade 2 539 69 16 1 120 30 51 6 0 16 6 0 16 1 419 38 65 3 671Dawson 1 908 71 03 761 28 33 16 0 60 1 0 04 1 147 42 70 2 686Decatur 3 866 61 95 2 348 37 62 9 0 14 18 0 29 1 518 24 32 6 241DeKalb 90 179 48 94 92 521 50 21 945 0 51 605 0 33 2 342 1 27 184 250Dodge 2 677 54 95 2 164 44 42 15 0 31 16 0 33 513 10 53 4 872Dooly 1 386 45 88 1 613 53 39 18 0 60 4 0 13 227 7 51 3 021Dougherty 15 520 50 86 12 579 41 22 1 415 4 64 1 003 3 29 2 941 9 64 30 517Douglas 13 493 72 24 5 086 27 23 77 0 41 22 0 12 8 407 45 01 18 678Early 1 918 58 46 1 359 41 42 2 0 06 2 0 06 559 17 04 3 281Echols 422 62 99 245 36 57 2 0 30 1 0 15 177 26 42 670Effingham 3 933 67 13 1 905 32 51 14 0 24 7 0 12 2 028 34 61 5 859Elbert 2 796 56 77 2 118 43 01 11 0 22 0 0 00 678 13 77 4 925Emanuel 3 530 58 95 2 387 39 86 54 0 90 17 0 28 1 143 19 09 5 988Evans 1 707 62 01 1 023 37 16 14 0 51 9 0 33 684 24 85 2 753Fannin 4 271 66 45 2 123 33 03 27 0 42 6 0 09 2 148 33 42 6 427Fayette 16 443 77 84 4 593 21 74 73 0 35 14 0 07 11 850 56 10 21 123Floyd 14 697 62 85 8 548 36 55 111 0 47 30 0 13 6 149 26 29 23 386Forsyth 7 947 76 83 2 347 22 69 42 0 41 8 0 08 5 600 54 14 10 344Franklin 2 615 58 57 1 842 41 25 6 0 13 2 0 04 773 17 31 4 465Fulton 91 785 42 75 120 752 56 25 906 0 42 1 246 0 58 28 967 13 49 214 689Gilmer 3 353 70 65 1 363 28 72 24 0 51 6 0 13 1 990 41 93 4 746Glascock 580 73 42 210 26 58 0 0 00 0 0 00 370 46 84 790Glynn 11 126 63 18 6 339 35 99 78 0 44 68 0 39 4 787 27 18 17 611Gordon 6 051 71 65 2 369 28 05 18 0 21 7 0 08 3 682 43 60 8 445Grady 2 989 61 10 1 883 38 49 10 0 20 10 0 20 1 106 22 61 4 892Greene 1 432 43 93 1 818 55 77 9 0 28 1 0 03 386 11 84 3 260Gwinnett 66 372 75 47 20 948 23 82 523 0 59 97 0 11 45 424 51 65 87 940Habersham 4 871 69 45 2 114 30 14 22 0 31 7 0 10 2 757 39 31 7 014Hall 17 415 68 71 7 782 30 71 110 0 43 37 0 15 9 633 38 01 25 344Hancock 621 23 99 1 947 75 20 11 0 42 10 0 39 1 326 51 22 2 589Haralson 4 529 65 17 2 404 34 59 15 0 22 2 0 03 2 125 30 58 6 950Harris 3 414 63 94 1 905 35 68 17 0 32 3 0 06 1 509 28 26 5 339Hart 3 044 54 88 2 476 44 64 20 0 36 7 0 13 568 10 24 5 547Heard 1 551 63 77 874 35 94 3 0 12 4 0 16 677 27 84 2 432Henry 10 882 71 11 4 348 28 41 57 0 37 17 0 11 6 534 42 69 15 304Houston 15 748 64 02 8 664 35 22 106 0 43 79 0 32 7 084 28 80 24 597Irwin 1 226 57 00 918 42 68 4 0 19 3 0 14 308 14 32 2 151Jackson 4 407 62 56 2 607 37 00 17 0 24 14 0 20 1 800 25 55 7 045Jasper 1 474 55 08 1 188 44 39 10 0 37 4 0 15 286 10 69 2 676Jeff Davis 2 050 62 03 1 242 37 58 7 0 21 6 0 18 808 24 45 3 305Jefferson 2 788 54 13 2 346 45 54 10 0 19 7 0 14 442 8 58 5 151Jenkins 1 288 57 30 953 42 39 7 0 31 0 0 00 335 14 90 2 248Johnson 1 567 62 83 927 37 17 0 0 00 0 0 00 640 25 66 2 494Jones 3 618 57 41 2 662 42 24 11 0 17 11 0 17 956 15 17 6 302Lamar 2 035 57 83 1 416 40 24 53 1 51 15 0 43 619 17 59 3 519Lanier 725 50 81 698 48 91 1 0 07 3 0 21 27 1 89 1 427Laurens 6 929 57 89 4 879 40 76 133 1 11 29 0 24 2 050 17 13 11 970Lee 2 875 74 04 995 25 62 10 0 26 3 0 08 1 880 48 42 3 883Liberty 3 100 51 24 2 906 48 03 32 0 53 12 0 20 194 3 21 6 050Lincoln 1 417 60 97 893 38 43 8 0 34 6 0 26 524 22 55 2 324Long 858 55 32 681 43 91 4 0 26 8 0 52 177 11 41 1 551Lowndes 10 855 62 63 6 427 37 08 35 0 20 16 0 09 4 428 25 55 17 333Lumpkin 2 688 67 20 1 286 32 15 19 0 48 7 0 18 1 402 35 05 4 000Macon 1 412 38 19 2 268 61 35 7 0 19 10 0 27 856 23 15 3 697Madison 3 724 69 10 1 639 30 41 15 0 28 11 0 20 2 085 38 69 5 389Marion 804 48 67 844 51 09 2 0 12 2 0 12 40 2 42 1 652McDuffie 3 231 65 04 1 704 34 30 12 0 24 21 0 42 1 527 30 74 4 968McIntosh 1 273 45 08 1 527 54 07 13 0 46 11 0 39 254 8 99 2 824Meriwether 3 101 51 31 2 934 48 54 9 0 15 0 0 00 167 2 76 6 044Miller 1 105 68 00 515 31 69 2 0 12 3 0 18 590 36 31 1 625Mitchell 2 590 53 29 2 260 46 50 5 0 10 5 0 10 330 6 79 4 860Monroe 2 570 56 38 1 970 43 22 11 0 24 7 0 15 600 13 16 4 558Montgomery 1 228 57 49 903 42 28 5 0 23 0 0 00 325 15 22 2 136Morgan 2 108 58 10 1 508 41 57 12 0 33 0 0 00 600 16 54 3 628Murray 3 996 70 11 1 679 29 46 16 0 28 9 0 16 2 317 40 65 5 700Muscogee 23 058 54 90 18 772 44 70 112 0 27 58 0 14 4 286 10 20 42 000Newton 5 809 64 77 3 111 34 69 35 0 39 14 0 16 2 698 30 08 8 969Oconee 4 265 67 89 1 990 31 68 26 0 41 1 0 02 2 275 36 21 6 282Oglethorpe 1 951 62 61 1 154 37 03 7 0 22 4 0 13 797 25 58 3 116Paulding 7 329 72 63 2 717 26 92 36 0 36 9 0 09 4 612 45 70 10 091Peach 2 782 48 00 2 972 51 28 20 0 35 22 0 38 190 3 28 5 796Pickens 3 021 67 52 1 430 31 96 14 0 31 9 0 20 1 591 35 56 4 474Pierce 1 947 55 49 1 558 44 40 1 0 03 3 0 09 389 11 09 3 509Pike 2 074 63 35 1 176 35 92 23 0 70 1 0 03 898 27 43 3 274Polk 5 454 64 46 2 977 35 18 23 0 27 7 0 08 2 477 29 28 8 461Pulaski 1 400 48 48 1 476 51 11 7 0 24 5 0 17 76 2 63 2 888Putnam 2 111 57 74 1 532 41 90 7 0 19 6 0 16 579 15 84 3 656Quitman 296 40 11 436 59 08 4 0 54 2 0 27 140 18 97 738Rabun 2 278 63 14 1 301 36 06 16 0 44 13 0 36 977 27 08 3 608Randolph 1 319 48 94 1 369 50 80 4 0 15 3 0 11 50 1 86 2 695Richmond 27 566 57 12 20 489 42 46 118 0 24 85 0 18 7 077 14 66 48 258Rockdale 12 413 73 77 4 330 25 73 65 0 39 18 0 11 8 083 48 04 16 826Schley 635 58 91 439 40 72 3 0 28 1 0 09 196 18 18 1 078Screven 2 178 59 52 1 461 39 93 12 0 33 8 0 22 717 19 60 3 659Seminole 1 469 55 54 1 171 44 27 2 0 08 3 0 11 298 11 27 2 645Spalding 7 730 63 68 4 318 35 57 57 0 47 33 0 27 3 412 28 11 12 138Stephens 4 329 66 09 2 185 33 36 27 0 41 9 0 14 2 144 32 73 6 550Stewart 832 42 17 1 136 57 58 3 0 15 2 0 10 304 15 41 1 973Sumter 4 289 55 93 3 332 43 45 23 0 30 24 0 31 957 12 48 7 668Talbot 802 38 93 1 248 60 58 6 0 29 4 0 19 446 21 65 2 060Taliaferro 306 39 38 469 60 36 1 0 13 1 0 13 163 20 98 777Tattnall 3 172 65 03 1 694 34 73 8 0 16 4 0 08 1 478 30 30 4 878Taylor 1 145 50 13 1 134 49 65 3 0 13 2 0 09 11 0 48 2 284Telfair 1 805 50 21 1 765 49 10 13 0 36 12 0 33 40 1 11 3 595Terrell 1 517 52 22 1 383 47 61 2 0 07 3 0 10 134 4 61 2 905Thomas 6 572 64 78 3 530 34 80 24 0 24 19 0 19 3 042 29 99 10 145Tift 4 760 65 80 2 446 33 81 16 0 22 12 0 17 2 314 31 99 7 234Toombs 4 433 78 89 1 152 20 50 25 0 44 9 0 16 3 281 58 39 5 619Towns 1 783 65 12 942 34 40 11 0 40 2 0 07 841 30 72 2 738Treutlen 970 57 19 726 42 81 0 0 00 0 0 00 244 14 39 1 696Troup 9 484 67 31 4 562 32 38 36 0 26 7 0 05 4 922 34 94 14 089Turner 1 312 50 52 1 122 43 20 90 3 47 73 2 81 190 7 32 2 597Twiggs 1 261 41 96 1 730 57 57 9 0 30 5 0 17 469 15 61 3 005Union 2 396 65 39 1 258 34 33 10 0 27 0 0 00 1 138 31 06 3 664Upson 4 614 63 05 2 666 36 43 26 0 36 12 0 16 1 948 26 62 7 318Walker 10 487 68 63 4 753 31 11 31 0 20 9 0 06 5 734 37 53 15 280Walton 5 974 65 56 3 091 33 92 31 0 34 16 0 18 2 883 31 64 9 112Ware 4 819 52 59 4 292 46 84 26 0 28 26 0 28 527 5 75 9 163Warren 897 44 78 1 091 54 47 6 0 30 9 0 45 194 9 69 2 003Washington 2 752 51 12 2 615 48 58 5 0 09 11 0 20 137 2 55 5 383Wayne 3 340 57 93 2 417 41 92 8 0 14 1 0 02 923 16 01 5 766Webster 361 45 70 427 54 05 2 0 25 0 0 00 66 8 35 790Wheeler 709 51 64 658 47 92 4 0 29 2 0 15 51 3 71 1 373White 2 648 71 65 1 028 27 81 19 0 51 1 0 03 1 620 43 83 3 696Whitfield 12 761 73 12 4 618 26 46 40 0 23 32 0 18 8 143 46 66 17 451Wilcox 1 235 53 26 1 079 46 53 5 0 22 0 0 00 156 6 73 2 319Wilkes 1 810 53 71 1 549 45 96 8 0 24 3 0 09 261 7 74 3 370Wilkinson 1 546 45 30 1 831 53 65 25 0 73 11 0 32 285 8 35 3 413Worth 2 668 66 55 1 311 32 70 20 0 50 10 0 25 1 357 33 85 4 009Totals 1 081 331 59 75 714 792 39 50 8 435 0 47 5 099 0 28 366 539 20 25 1 809 657See also EditPresidency of George H W Bush 1988 Democratic National Convention held in Atlanta GANotes Edit These seven counties that voted for Mondale in 1984 and Bush in 1988 were Lincoln County and Hardeman County Tennessee in both of which Bush was only the second ever GOP winner after Richard Nixon in 1972 Strom Thurmond s home county of Edgefield South Carolina and the four Georgia counties of Bibb Taylor Telfair and Mitchell These write in votes were not separated by county but given only as a state wide total 4 References Edit Dave Leip s Atlas of U S Presidential Elections Uselectionatlas org Retrieved 2013 07 21 Menendez Albert J The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States 1868 2004 p 111 ISBN 0786422173 Sullivan Robert David How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century America Magazine in The National Catholic Review June 29 2016 a b c GA US President Race November 08 1988 Our Campaigns Retrieved from https en 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