Political party strength in Georgia (U.S. state)
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Georgia:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State School Superintendent
- Commissioner of Agriculture
- Commissioner of Insurance
- Commissioner of Labor
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State Public Service Commission
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Darker shading indicates confirmed partisan affiliation or majority; lighter shading indicates likely, but unconfirmed, partisan affiliation or majority.
1775–1788
1789–1874
1875–present
| Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | PSC | United States Congress | Electoral votes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | School Supt. | Comm. of Ag. | Comm. of Ins. | Comm. of Labor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | |||
| 1875 | James Milton Smith (D) | no such office[lower-alpha 21] | Nathan Crawford Barnett (D)[lower-alpha 4] |
Nathaniel Job Hammond (D) |
[?] | [?] | [?] | no such office | 43D, 1R | 168D, 7R | no such office | Thomas M. Norwood (D) | John Brown Gordon (D) | 8D, 1I | |
| 1876 | Tilden/ Hendricks (D)  | ||||||||||||||
| 1877 | Alfred H. Colquitt (D) | Robert N. Ely | 40D, 3ID, 1R | 159D, 8R, 8I | Benjamin Harvey Hill (D) | ||||||||||
| 1878 | |||||||||||||||
| 1879 | 44D | 171D, 4R | 6D, 3I | ||||||||||||
| 1880 | Clifford Anderson | [?] | [lower-alpha 22] | Joseph E. Brown (D) | Hancock/ English (D) | ||||||||||
| 1881 | 43D, 1R | 165D, 10R | 8D, 1I | ||||||||||||
| 1882 | Middleton P. Barrow (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1883 | Alexander H. Stephens (D)[lower-alpha 4] | 44D | 167D, 5I, 2R, 1Proh | Alfred H. Colquitt (D) | 10D | ||||||||||
| James S. Boynton (D)[lower-alpha 11] | |||||||||||||||
| Henry Dickerson McDaniel (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1884 | Cleveland/ Hendricks (D)  | ||||||||||||||
| 1885 | 169D, 6R | ||||||||||||||
| 1886 | |||||||||||||||
| 1887 | John Brown Gordon (D) | 39D, 2R, 2I, 1Lab | 150D, 10R, 10I, 5Lab | ||||||||||||
| 1888 | Cleveland/ Thurman (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1889 | 43D, 1R | 172D, 3R | |||||||||||||
| 1890 | George N. Lester | ||||||||||||||
| Philip Cook (D)[lower-alpha 11] | |||||||||||||||
| 1891 | William J. Northen (D) | W. A. Little | 44D | 171D, 4R | John Brown Gordon (D) | 9D, 1Pop | |||||||||
| 1892 | J. M. Terrell | [?] | [?] | [?] | Cleveland/ Stevenson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1893 | 43D, 1Pop | 159D, 11Pop, 4R, 1? | 11D | ||||||||||||
| 1894 | Patrick Walsh (D) | ||||||||||||||
| Allen D. Candler (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1895 | William Yates Atkinson (D) | 38D, 5Pop, 1R | 126D, 47Pop, 2R | Augustus Octavius Bacon (D) | |||||||||||
| 1896 | Bryan/ Sewall (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1897 | 37D, 6Pop, 1R | 142D, 30Pop, 3R | Alexander S. Clay (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1898 | William C. Clifton (D) | ||||||||||||||
| Philip Cook, Jr. (D)[lower-alpha 11] | |||||||||||||||
| 1899 | Allen D. Candler (D) | 43D, 1R | 170D, 5Pop | ||||||||||||
| 1900 | Bryan/ Stevenson (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1901 | 166D, 9P | ||||||||||||||
| 1902 | Boykin Wright | ||||||||||||||
| 1903 | Joseph M. Terrell (D) | John C. Hart | 40D, 2R, 2Pop | 171D, 3R, 1Pop | |||||||||||
| 1904 | Parker/ Davis (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1905 | 44D | 173D, 2R | |||||||||||||
| 1906 | |||||||||||||||
| 1907 | 170D, 3R, 2Pop, 8? | 5D | |||||||||||||
| M. Hoke Smith (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1908 | Bryan/ Kern (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1909 | 184D | ||||||||||||||
| Joseph Mackey Brown (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1910 | |||||||||||||||
| Hewlett A. Hall | Joseph M. Terrell (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1911 | 43D, 1R | 183D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| M. Hoke Smith (D)[lower-alpha 10] | Thomas S. Felder | ||||||||||||||
| John M. Slaton (D)[lower-alpha 11] | M. Hoke Smith (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1912 | Joseph Mackey Brown (D) | Wilson/ Marshall (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1913 | John M. Slaton (D) | 12D | |||||||||||||
| 1914 | Warren Grice (D) | ||||||||||||||
| William Stanley West (D) | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas W. Hardwick (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1915 | Nathaniel Edwin Harris (D) | Clifford Walker (D) | 188D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1916 | |||||||||||||||
| 1917 | Hugh Dorsey (D) | 44D | |||||||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||||||||
| Henry Strange (D)[lower-alpha 23] | |||||||||||||||
| 1919 | Samuel McLendon (D)[lower-alpha 11] | 51D | 190D, 3R | William J. Harris (D) | |||||||||||
| 1920 | R. A. Denny | Cox/ Roosevelt (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1921 | Thomas W. Hardwick (D) | George M. Napier (D) | 50D, 1R | 202D, 4R | Thomas E. Watson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1922 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Latimer Felton (D) | |||||||||||||||
| Walter F. George (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1923 | Clifford Walker (D) | 51D | 205D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1924 | Davis/ Bryan (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1925 | 50D, 1R | 204D, 2R | |||||||||||||
| 1926 | |||||||||||||||
| 1927 | Lamartine Griffin Hardman (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Smith/ Robinson (D) | ||||||||||||||
| George Henry Carswell (D)[lower-alpha 23] | |||||||||||||||
| 1929 | 51D | 204D, 3R | |||||||||||||
| 1930 | |||||||||||||||
| 1931 | Richard Russell Jr. (D) | John B. Wilson (D)[lower-alpha 11] | 50D, 1R | 207D | |||||||||||
| 1932 | Roosevelt/ Garner (D) | ||||||||||||||
| Lawrence S. Camp (D) | John S. Cohen (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1933 | Eugene Talmadge (D) | M. J. Yeomans | 205D | Richard Russell Jr. (D) | 10D | ||||||||||
| 1934 | |||||||||||||||
| 1935 | 203D, 2R | ||||||||||||||
| 1936 | |||||||||||||||
| 1937 | Eurith D. Rivers (D) | 204D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| 1938 | Ben Huiet (D)[lower-alpha 24] | ||||||||||||||
| 1939 | 51D, 1R | ||||||||||||||
| Ellis Arnall (D)[lower-alpha 23] | |||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Roosevelt/ Wallace (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941 | Eugene Talmadge (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 1943 | Ellis Arnall (D) | T. Grady Head | |||||||||||||
| 1944 | Roosevelt/ Truman (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1945 | Eugene Cook (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| Benjamin W. Fortson Jr. (D)[lower-alpha 25][lower-alpha 4] | |||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Melvin E. Thompson (D) | 53D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| Herman Talmadge (D) | |||||||||||||||
| Melvin E. Thompson (D)[lower-alpha 26] | vacant | ||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Truman/ Barkley (D) | ||||||||||||||
| Herman Talmadge (D)[lower-alpha 27] | Marvin Griffin (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1949 | 203D, 2R | ||||||||||||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 1951 | 54D | 204D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| 1952 | Stevenson/ Sparkman (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1953 | 53D, 1R | ||||||||||||||
| 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 1955 | Marvin Griffin (D) | Ernest Vandiver (D) | Phil Campbell (D) | 202D, 3R | |||||||||||
| 1956 | Stevenson/ Kefauver (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1957 | Herman Talmadge (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Ernest Vandiver (D) | Garland T. Byrd (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Kennedy/ Johnson (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1961 | 203D, 2R | ||||||||||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Carl Sanders (D) | Peter Zack Geer (D) | 50D, 4R | ||||||||||||
| 1964 | Goldwater/ Miller (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1965 | Arthur K. Bolton (D) | 44D, 9R, 2I | 198D, 7R | 9D, 1R | |||||||||||
| 1966 | 188D, 17R | ||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Lester Maddox (D) | George T. Smith (D) | James L. Bentley (R) | Sam Caldwell (D) | 46D, 7R, 1I | 183D, 22R | 8D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1968 | Phil Campbell (R)[lower-alpha 28] | Wallace/ LeMay (AI) | |||||||||||||
| 1969 | Tommy Irvin (D) | 48D, 7R, 1I | 169D, 26R | ||||||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 1971 | Jimmy Carter (D) | Lester Maddox (D) | [?] | 50D, 6R | 173D, 22R | ||||||||||
| David H. Gambrell (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1972 | Nixon/ Agnew (R) | ||||||||||||||
| Sam Nunn (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1973 | 48D, 8R | 152D, 27R | 9D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 1975 | George Busbee (D) | Zell Miller (D) | 51D, 5R | 155D, 24R | 10D | ||||||||||
| 1976 | Carter/ Mondale (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | 52D, 4R | 158D, 24R | |||||||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 1979 | 51D, 5R | 160D, 20R | 9D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| David Poythress (D)[lower-alpha 29] | |||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Carter/ Mondale (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Mike Bowers (D) | 157D, 23R | Mack Mattingly (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||||||||
| 1983 | Joe Frank Harris (D) | Max Cleland (D) | 49D, 7R | 156D, 24R | |||||||||||
| 1984 | Joe Tanner (D)[lower-alpha 30] | Reagan/ Bush (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | 47D, 9R | 154D, 26R | 8D, 2R | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Werner Rogers (D) | 46D, 10R | 153D, 27R | Wyche Fowler (D) | |||||||||||
| 1988 | Bush/ Quayle (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989 | 45D, 11R | 145D, 35R | 9D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Ray Hollingsworth (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Zell Miller (D) | Pierre Howard (D) | Tim Ryles (D) | Al Scott (D) | 144D, 36R | ||||||||||
| 1992 | David Poythress (D)[lower-alpha 31] | Clinton/ Gore (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | 39D, 17R | 128D, 52R | 4D, 1R | Paul Coverdell (R)[lower-alpha 4] | 7D, 4R | ||||||||||
| 1994 | Mike Bowers (R)[lower-alpha 32] | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Linda Schrenko (R) | John Oxendine (R) | 36D, 20R | 114D, 66R | 3R, 2D | 7R, 4D | |||||||||
| 8R, 3D[lower-alpha 33] | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 4R, 1D[lower-alpha 34] | Dole/ Kemp (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | Lewis A. Massey (D)[lower-alpha 23] | 34D, 22R | 102D, 78R | Max Cleland (D) | |||||||||||
| Thurbert Baker (D)[lower-alpha 23] | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | 4R, 1NP[lower-alpha 35] | ||||||||||||||
| Marti Fullerton (D)[lower-alpha 36] | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Roy Barnes (D) | Mark Taylor (D) | Cathy Cox (D) | Mike Thurmond (D) | |||||||||||
| 2000 | Bush/ Cheney (R) | ||||||||||||||
| Zell Miller (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 2001 | 32D, 24R | 105D, 74R, 1I | 3R, 1D, 1NP | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Sonny Perdue (R) | Kathy Cox (R)[lower-alpha 37] | 30R, 26D[lower-alpha 38] | 107D, 72R, 1I | 4R, 1D | Saxby Chambliss (R) | 8R, 5D | ||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | 34R, 22D | 99R, 80D, 1I | Johnny Isakson (R) | 7R, 6D | |||||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Casey Cagle (R) | Karen Handel (R)[lower-alpha 39] | 106R, 74D | 5R | |||||||||||
| 2008 | McCain/ Palin (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | 105R, 74D, 1I | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Brian Kemp (R)[lower-alpha 40] | William Bradley Bryant (I)[lower-alpha 23] | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Nathan Deal (R) | Sam Olens (R) | John Barge (R) | Gary Black (R) | Ralph Hudgens (R) | Mark Butler (R) | 35R, 21D[lower-alpha 41] | 116R, 63D, 1I[lower-alpha 42] | 8R, 5D | ||||||
| 2012 | Romney/ Ryan (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 38R, 18D | 119R, 60D, 1I | 9R, 5D | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Richard Woods (R) | David Perdue (R) | 10R, 4D | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 39R, 17D[lower-alpha 43] | Trump/ Pence (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | Christopher M. Carr (R) | 38R, 18D | 118R, 62D | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | |||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Brian Kemp (R) | Geoff Duncan (R) | Brad Raffensperger (R) | Jim Beck (R)[lower-alpha 44] | 35R, 21D | 106R, 74D | 9R, 5D | ||||||||
| John F. King (R)[lower-alpha 45] | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Kelly Loeffler (R) | Biden/ Harris (D) | |||||||||||||
| 2021 | 34R, 22D | 103R, 77D | Jon Ossoff (D) | Raphael Warnock (D) | 8R, 6D | ||||||||||
| 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Burt Jones (R) | Tyler Harper (R) | Bruce Thompson (R) | 33R, 23D | 101R, 79D | 9R, 5D | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | School Supt. | Comm. of Ag. | Comm. of Ins. | Comm. of Labor | State Senate | State House | PSC | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral votes |
| Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | |||||||||||||
- President of Council of Safety.
- Not a formal political party, and not to be confused with the 19th-century Whig Party.
- President of Georgia.
- Died in office.
- Died in office; after losing his bid for re-election, Gwinnett was wounded in a duel with Lachlan McIntosh on May 6, 1777 and died of his wounds two days later.
- President of Executive Council.
- Temporary governor.
- President of Supreme Executive Council.
- Resigned in favor of Stephen Heard.
- Resigned to take elected seat in the United States Senate.
- As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term.
- Resigned due to declining health.
- Resigned to become agent to the Creek people.
- The Troup party was essentially the continuation of the Jackson faction (followers of James Jackson).
- Resigned following the defeat of the Confederate States of America.
- Provisional governor appointed by President Andrew Johnson following American Civil War.
- Removed from office by the military because he refused to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention; the state was still under military occupation during Reconstruction.
- Provisional governor appointed by General George Meade.
- Resigned; fled the state to avoid impeachment; was arrested in 1876 and found not guilty of embezzlement.
- Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley died before the Electoral College voted. 6 of Georgia's 11 votes went to Greeley's running mate Brown, while 3 went to Greeley and 2 went to Democratic Georgia Governor Charles J. Jenkins
- Position of lieutenant governor created in 1945 and first elected in 1946.
- Appointed by the governor.
- Filled vacancy.
- The Georgia Department of Labor was created in 1937 and placed under the control of an elected commissioner.[1]
- Appointed secretary of state in 1946 to fill the unexpired term of John B. Wilson, who died in office.[2]
- Eugene Talmadge was elected to a third non-consecutive term in 1946 but died before taking office. Incumbent Governor Ellis Arnall and Lieutenant Governor-elect Melvin E. Thompson both claimed the office. The state legislature chose Eugene Talmadge's son, Herman Talmadge, to be governor, and he took office in January 1947, but the state Supreme Court later that year declared this unconstitutional and declared Thompson the rightful acting governor, and Talmadge stepped down after 67 days in office.
- Talmadge defeated Thompson in a special election in September 1948.
- Switched parties from Democratic to Republican after the 1968 Democratic National Convention.[3]
- Governor George Busbee appointed Poythress secretary of state to fill a vacancy created by the death of Fortson.[4]
- Resigned to accept an appointment as commissioner of the state Department of Natural Resources.[4]
- Poythress was elected to fill Tanner's unexpired term.[4]
- Switched parties to Republican.
- In April 1995 incumbent Democrat Nathan Deal switched parties to Republican.
- Democrat Bob Durden switched parties to Republican in 1995.
- Governor Zell Miller appointed Lauren "Bubba" McDonald Jr. as a nonpartisan to the seat vacated by Democrat Mac Barber.
- Served on an interim basis after Poythress resigned in order to run for governor.
- Resigned.
- Recently reelected incumbent Democrats Don Cheeks, Dan Lee, Rooney Bowen, and Jack Hill switched parties to Republican between the November 2002 election and the beginning of the legislative session in January 2003.
- Resigned to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
- Brian Kemp was appointed Secretary of State, January 4, 2010, to fill the unexpired term of Karen Handel.
- Tim Golden switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party after the November 2, 2010 General Election.
- Eight state representatives—C. Ellis Black, Amy Carter , Mike Cheokas, Bubber Epps, Gerald Greene, Bob Hanner, Doug McKillip, and Alan Powell—switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party after the November 2, 2010 General Election.
- JaNice Van Ness won a special election to succeed Ronald Ramsey Sr., flipping the seat from Democratic to Republican.[5]
- Suspended following indictment for fraud.
- Temporary appointment pending the outcome of the investigation into Jim Beck.
References
- About Us | Georgia Department of Labor
- "Ben Fortson (1904-1979)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
- "J. Phil Campbell, Jr. Papers". sclfind.libs.uga.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
- Count to '10, and a Fun Race for Governor
- http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/republican-winning-race-to-capture-ga-senate-seat/npZjz/
See also
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