2016 Georgia Democratic presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2016 Georgia Democratic presidential primary Georgia (U.S. state) presidential no 2012 Georgia Democratic presidential primary 2012 2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary 2020 2016 03 01 CO MA File:Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg 160x160px Hillary Clinton d4aa00 New York 545,674 71.30% 73 File:Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg Bernie Sanders 228B22 Vermont 215,797 28.20% 29 2016_Democratic_Presidential_Primary_in_Georgia_by_county.svg 270px Results by county Clinton: #faec63 40-50% #eccc4b 50-60% #cdac39 60-70% #eccc4b 70-80% #684614 80-90% #4f2d0b >90%Sanders: #71bc62 50-60% The 2016 Georgia Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Georgia as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The primary was an open one.http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primary-types.aspx STATE PRIMARY ELECTION TYPES NCSL 2017-05-17 On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states, including their own Georgia primary. Clinton won every county in the state, except for Echols County. She easily won Georgia in the primary by a wide margin of victory 43.10%. In 2008, Clinton lost the Georgia primary to then-senator from Illinois Barack Obama. Clinton's overwhelming win was attributed mostly to the African American vote, and her endorsement from civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis.https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/after-2008-flip-flop-john-lewis-barnstorms-hard-for-clinton-campaign-219307 Hillary Clinton's secret weapon: John Lewis Temple-West Patrick POLITICO 15 February 2016 en 2019-05-03 Opinion polling Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Results Results of the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Primary date: March 1, 2016 National delegates: 60 Georgia Democratic primary, March 1, 2016 District Delegates available Votes Delegates Clinton Sanders O'Malley Steinberg Total Qualified total Clinton Sanders 1 5 32,408 12,343 180 166 45,097 44,751 4 1 2 5 48,705 8,817 185 168 57,875 57,522 4 1 3 4 30,311 11,691 160 135 42,297 42,002 3 1 4 6 73,739 23,827 148 105 97,819 97,566 5 1 5 7 81,636 32,474 176 89 114,375 114,110 5 2 6 5 34,287 22,632 133 60 57,112 56,919 3 2 7 4 27,483 15,461 106 63 43,113 42,944 3 1 8 4 27,632 8,539 168 153 36,492 36,171 3 1 9 4 14,263 9,727 146 130 24,266 23,990 2 2 10 4 33,303 15,274 142 169 48,888 48,577 3 1 11 4 26,137 17,511 123 89 43,860 43,648 2 2 12 5 33,308 9,361 176 151 42,996 42,669 4 1 13 6 68,652 19,128 152 114 88,046 87,780 5 1 14 4 13,810 9,012 134 174 23,130 22,822 2 2 Total 67 545,674 215,797 2,129 1,766 765,366 761,471 48 19 PLEO 13 9 4 At large 22 16 6 Gr. Total 102 73 29 Total vote 71.30% 28.20% 0.28% 0.23% 100.00% 99,49% Source: Georgia Secretary of State Presidential Preference Primary Congressional District Results (Democrat) Results by county Countyhttps://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/counties/ga/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN June 5, 2018 Clinton Votes Sanders Votes Appling 75.6% 490 21.9% 142 Atkinson 79.8% 201 19.4% 49 Bacon 63.8% 113 32.8% 58 Baker 85.1% 303 13.5% 48 Baldwin 79.4% 3,034 19.9% 762 Banks 49.0% 172 48.1% 169 Barrow 61.7% 1,457 37.2% 879 Bartow 59.0% 2,216 39.7% 1,490 Ben Hill 80.2% 779 18.4% 179 Berrien 66.7% 325 30.0% 146 Bibb 82.8% 12,944 16.8% 2,632 Bleckley 77.7% 370 20.6% 98 Brantley 49.1% 137 44.1% 123 Brooks 77.6% 714 21.5% 198 Bryan 63.3% 893 35.5% 501 Bulloch 60.7% 1,910 38.8% 1,221 Burke 89.5% 1,659 9.9% 184 Butts 81.7% 922 16.9% 191 Calhoun 88.9% 499 10.9% 61 Camden 66.6% 1,405 32.6% 688 Candler 78.3% 434 19.9% 110 Carroll 61.7% 3,173 37.6% 1,933 Catoosa 50.8% 1,082 48.1% 1,026 Charlton 73.7% 275 22.5% 84 Chatham 72.3% 19,898 27.2% 7,496 Chattahoochee 81.3% 182 17.9% 40 Chattooga 63.7% 566 34.0% 302 Cherokee 51.8% 4,837 47.6% 4,438 Clarke 50.7% 7,089 49.0% 6,845 Clay 85.8% 297 12.7% 44 Clayton 81.6% 25,130 18.0% 5,551 Clinch 79.5% 167 18.1% 38 Cobb 63.5% 39,277 36.2% 22,390 Coffee 77.0% 1,094 21.7% 309 Colquitt 76.1% 1,035 22.2% 302 Columbia 66.9% 4,805 32.5% 2,333 Cook 76.2% 580 22.5% 171 Coweta 66.5% 4,536 32.7% 2,233 Crawford 79.1% 493 19.3% 120 Crisp 80.1% 729 18.9% 172 Dade 50.3% 241 48.0% 230 Dawson 53.0% 312 45.5% 268 Decatur 79.0% 1,316 20.0% 333 DeKalb 71.5% 82,348 28.3% 32,572 Dodge 79.5% 579 19.4% 141 Dooly 88.4% 737 10.9% 91 Dougherty 85.7% 8,891 13.8% 1,435 Douglas 74.6% 9,375 25.0% 3,139 Early 89.2% 671 10.1% 76 Echols 45.7% 32 51.4% 36 Effingham 64.5% 1,178 33.9% 620 Elbert 75.0% 805 24.0% 257 Emanuel 83.1% 755 15.9% 144 Evans 78.5% 347 19.2% 85 Fannin 59.9% 545 39.1% 356 Fayette 71.1% 7,257 28.6% 2,918 Floyd 64.5% 2,555 34.2% 1,356 Forsyth 53.8% 3,701 45.7% 3,142 Franklin 62.7% 352 36.2% 203 Fulton 71.1% 82,576 28.7% 33,320 Gilmer 53.0% 489 45.7% 421 Glascock 62.3% 38 31.1% 19 Glynn 68.7% 2,870 30.6% 1,277 Gordon 57.5% 776 41.0% 553 Grady 75.9% 887 22.3% 261 Greene 85.8% 37,465 33.4% 18,883 Gwinnett 66.2% 1,076 13.5% 169 Habersham 52.0% 608 47.3% 553 Hall 60.3% 3,482 38.9% 2,245 Hancock 87.4% 1,112 11.4% 145 Haralson 55.1% 413 41.5% 311 Harris 75.0% 1,372 24.5% 448 Hart 72.3% 740 27.0% 276 Heard 70.1% 276 28.2% 111 Henry 77.7% 15,639 21.9% 4,406 Houston 76.0% 6,274 23.6% 1,946 Irwin 79.9% 326 18.1% 74 Jackson 61.4% 1,193 37.5% 729 Jasper 81.4% 632 17.1% 133 Jeff Davis 76.6% 400 20.3% 106 Jefferson 88.5% 1,519 11.0% 189 Jenkins 84.1% 355 15.2% 64 Johnson 85.1% 388 14.0% 64 Jones 80.2% 1,585 18.8% 371 Lamar 79.9% 868 19.1% 208 Lanier 76.5% 234 22.5% 69 Laurens 82.2% 2,294 16.2% 453 Lee 74.2% 1,009 24.6% 335 Liberty 79.7% 2,783 19.4% 678 Lincoln 84.5% 538 14.6% 93 Long 68.5% 261 29.1% 111 Lowndes 68.0% 3,891 31.3% 1,791 Lumpkin 50.6% 560 48.1% 532 Macon 89.9% 977 9.7% 105 Madison 55.7% 656 42.9% 505 Marion 76.3% 431 21.2% 120 McDuffie 84.7% 1,274 14.8% 223 McIntosh 84.4% 863 14.6% 149 Meriwether 85.4% 1,463 13.8% 237 Miller 77.6% 159 18.0% 37 Mitchell 85.8% 1,338 13.0% 203 Monroe 80.1% 1,250 19.2% 300 Montgomery 78.2% 287 19.6% 72 Morgan 77.5% 910 22.1% 259 Murray 51.2% 444 46.9% 407 Muscogee 79.1% 12,801 20.5% 3,319 Newton 78.0% 7,269 21.5% 2,001 Oconee 52.5% 1,223 47.1% 1,098 Oglethorpe 60.5% 561 38.6% 358 Paulding 65.6% 4,095 33.8% 2,111 Peach 83.7% 1,675 15.8% 316 Pickens 53.1% 431 45.6% 370 Pierce 67.0% 219 31.8% 104 Pike 68.4% 417 30.7% 187 Polk 68.6% 944 29.3% 403 Pulaski 86.0% 376 13.7% 60 Putnam 80.2% 871 19.0% 206 Quitman 91.0% 193 7.1% 15 Rabun 54.1% 397 44.4% 326 Randolph 89.5% 690 9.2% 71 Richmond 81.7% 16,269 18.0% 3,578 Rockdale 78.0% 7,930 21.8% 2,212 Schley 83.4% 146 14.3% 25 Screven 81.1% 771 17.5% 166 Seminole 84.4% 470 14.5% 81 Spalding 78.6% 3,129 20.6% 820 Stephens 60.7% 460 9.0% 284 Stewart 90.0% 460 9.0% 46 Sumter 82.4% 1,960 17.0% 404 Talbot 86.7% 852 12.2% 120 Taliaferro 86.4% 236 12.8% 35 Tattnall 76.1% 518 22.5% 153 Taylor 87.7% 476 11.4% 62 Telfair 81.1% 426 17.3% 91 Terrell 88.1% 804 11.5% 105 Thomas 78.2% 2,053 21.0% 551 Tift 75.9% 1,151 22.7% 344 Toombs 76.2% 562 22.5% 166 Towns 52.9% 312 45.1% 266 Treutlen 82.2% 300 15.9% 58 Troup 78.9% 3,357 20.0% 850 Turner 78.9% 330 19.4% 81 Twiggs 86.4% 818 12.5% 118 Union 56.3% 573 41.0% 417 Upson 80.8% 1,236 18.3% 280 Walker 53.0% 1,009 45.5% 867 Walton 69.9% 2,309 29.4% 969 Ware 75.0% 919 23.2% 284 Warren 89.5% 468 9.4% 49 Washington 86.4% 1,741 12.7% 256 Wayne 73.2% 700 24.7% 236 Webster 89.5% 170 9.5% 18 Wheeler 85.9% 177 12.6% 26 White 52.4% 498 46.3% 440 Whitfield 53.3% 1,536 45.4% 1,307 Wilcox 86.8% 302 11.8% 41 Wilkes 82.1% 702 16.5% 141 Wilkinson 83.3% 832 15.5% 155 Worth 79.4% 684 19.3% 166 Total 71.3% 543,008 28.2% 214,332 Analysis After losing in Georgia by 36 points to Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton bounced back with a lopsided 43-point win against rival Bernie Sanders. The victory was fueled primarily by African American voters, who comprised 51% of the electorate and backed Clinton by a margin of 85-14, compared to white voters, who backed Clinton by a margin of 58-41. Clinton won across all income levels and educational attainment levels in Georgia. Clinton performed extremely well throughout the state of Georgia and won all of its counties but one. She ran particularly strongly in Atlanta where she won 74 percent of the vote as well as its suburbs which backed her 66-34. Central Georgia, particularly the region known as the Cotton Belt, which has a large African American population, also strongly favored Clinton by a margin of 79-19. Clinton also performed well in North Georgia, mostly in the more rural, white and conservative parts of the state which are considered to be an extreme part of Appalachia, where she defeated Sanders by a margin of 64-36.http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/ga/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-09-25 After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in southern states including Georgia because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was disputed.[6] References Georgia Democratic primary 2016