2016 Georgia Democratic presidential primary explained

Election Name:	2016 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
Country:	Georgia (U.S. state)
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	2012 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
Previous Year:	2012
Next Election:	2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
Next Year:	2020
Candidate1:	Hillary Clinton
Color1:	d4aa00
Home State1:	New York
Popular Vote1:	545,674
Percentage1:	71.30%
Delegate Count1:	73
Candidate2:	Bernie Sanders
Color2:	228B22
Home State2:	Vermont
Popular Vote2:	215,797
Percentage2:	28.20%
Delegate Count2:	29
Map Size:	270px

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Opinion polling

See also: Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016.

Results

See also: 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

County^[3]	Clinton	Votes	Sanders	Votes
	75.6%	490	21.9%	142
	79.8%	201	19.4%	49
	63.8%	113	32.8%	58
	85.1%	303	13.5%	48
	79.4%	3,034	19.9%	762
	49.0%	172	48.1%	169
	61.7%	1,457	37.2%	879
	59.0%	2,216	39.7%	1,490
	80.2%	779	18.4%	179
	66.7%	325	30.0%	146
	82.8%	12,944	16.8%	2,632
	77.7%	370	20.6%	98
	49.1%	137	44.1%	123
	77.6%	714	21.5%	198
	63.3%	893	35.5%	501
	60.7%	1,910	38.8%	1,221
	89.5%	1,659	9.9%	184
	81.7%	922	16.9%	191
	88.9%	499	10.9%	61
	66.6%	1,405	32.6%	688
	78.3%	434	19.9%	110
	61.7%	3,173	37.6%	1,933
	50.8%	1,082	48.1%	1,026
	73.7%	275	22.5%	84
	72.3%	19,898	27.2%	7,496
	81.3%	182	17.9%	40
	63.7%	566	34.0%	302
	51.8%	4,837	47.6%	4,438
	50.7%	7,089	49.0%	6,845
	85.8%	297	12.7%	44
	81.6%	25,130	18.0%	5,551
	79.5%	167	18.1%	38
	63.5%	39,277	36.2%	22,390
	77.0%	1,094	21.7%	309
	76.1%	1,035	22.2%	302
	66.9%	4,805	32.5%	2,333
	76.2%	580	22.5%	171
	66.5%	4,536	32.7%	2,233
	79.1%	493	19.3%	120
	80.1%	729	18.9%	172
	50.3%	241	48.0%	230
	53.0%	312	45.5%	268
	79.0%	1,316	20.0%	333
	71.5%	82,348	28.3%	32,572
	79.5%	579	19.4%	141
	88.4%	737	10.9%	91
	85.7%	8,891	13.8%	1,435
	74.6%	9,375	25.0%	3,139
	89.2%	671	10.1%	76
	45.7%	32	51.4%	36
	64.5%	1,178	33.9%	620
	75.0%	805	24.0%	257
	83.1%	755	15.9%	144
	78.5%	347	19.2%	85
	59.9%	545	39.1%	356
	71.1%	7,257	28.6%	2,918
	64.5%	2,555	34.2%	1,356
	53.8%	3,701	45.7%	3,142
	62.7%	352	36.2%	203
	71.1%	82,576	28.7%	33,320
	53.0%	489	45.7%	421
	62.3%	38	31.1%	19
	68.7%	2,870	30.6%	1,277
	57.5%	776	41.0%	553
	75.9%	887	22.3%	261
	85.8%	37,465	33.4%	18,883
	66.2%	1,076	13.5%	169
	52.0%	608	47.3%	553
	60.3%	3,482	38.9%	2,245
	87.4%	1,112	11.4%	145
	55.1%	413	41.5%	311
	75.0%	1,372	24.5%	448
	72.3%	740	27.0%	276
	70.1%	276	28.2%	111
	77.7%	15,639	21.9%	4,406
	76.0%	6,274	23.6%	1,946
	79.9%	326	18.1%	74
	61.4%	1,193	37.5%	729
	81.4%	632	17.1%	133
	76.6%	400	20.3%	106
	88.5%	1,519	11.0%	189
	84.1%	355	15.2%	64
	85.1%	388	14.0%	64
	80.2%	1,585	18.8%	371
	79.9%	868	19.1%	208
	76.5%	234	22.5%	69
	82.2%	2,294	16.2%	453
	74.2%	1,009	24.6%	335
	79.7%	2,783	19.4%	678
	84.5%	538	14.6%	93
	68.5%	261	29.1%	111
	68.0%	3,891	31.3%	1,791
	50.6%	560	48.1%	532
	89.9%	977	9.7%	105
	55.7%	656	42.9%	505
	76.3%	431	21.2%	120
	84.7%	1,274	14.8%	223
	84.4%	863	14.6%	149
	85.4%	1,463	13.8%	237
	77.6%	159	18.0%	37
	85.8%	1,338	13.0%	203
	80.1%	1,250	19.2%	300
	78.2%	287	19.6%	72
	77.5%	910	22.1%	259
	51.2%	444	46.9%	407
	79.1%	12,801	20.5%	3,319
	78.0%	7,269	21.5%	2,001
	52.5%	1,223	47.1%	1,098
	60.5%	561	38.6%	358
	65.6%	4,095	33.8%	2,111
	83.7%	1,675	15.8%	316
	53.1%	431	45.6%	370
	67.0%	219	31.8%	104
	68.4%	417	30.7%	187
	68.6%	944	29.3%	403
	86.0%	376	13.7%	60
	80.2%	871	19.0%	206
	91.0%	193	7.1%	15
	54.1%	397	44.4%	326
	89.5%	690	9.2%	71
	81.7%	16,269	18.0%	3,578
	78.0%	7,930	21.8%	2,212
	83.4%	146	14.3%	25
	81.1%	771	17.5%	166
	84.4%	470	14.5%	81
	78.6%	3,129	20.6%	820
	60.7%	460	9.0%	284
	90.0%	460	9.0%	46
	82.4%	1,960	17.0%	404
	86.7%	852	12.2%	120
	86.4%	236	12.8%	35
	76.1%	518	22.5%	153
	87.7%	476	11.4%	62
	81.1%	426	17.3%	91
	88.1%	804	11.5%	105
	78.2%	2,053	21.0%	551
	75.9%	1,151	22.7%	344
	76.2%	562	22.5%	166
	52.9%	312	45.1%	266
	82.2%	300	15.9%	58
	78.9%	3,357	20.0%	850
	78.9%	330	19.4%	81
	86.4%	818	12.5%	118
	56.3%	573	41.0%	417
	80.8%	1,236	18.3%	280
	53.0%	1,009	45.5%	867
	69.9%	2,309	29.4%	969
	75.0%	919	23.2%	284
	89.5%	468	9.4%	49
	86.4%	1,741	12.7%	256
	73.2%	700	24.7%	236
	89.5%	170	9.5%	18
	85.9%	177	12.6%	26
	52.4%	498	46.3%	440
	53.3%	1,536	45.4%	1,307
	86.8%	302	11.8%	41
	82.1%	702	16.5%	141
	83.3%	832	15.5%	155
	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.^[4]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: STATE PRIMARY ELECTION TYPES. NCSL. 2017-05-17.
2. Web site: Hillary Clinton's secret weapon: John Lewis. Temple-West. Patrick. POLITICO. 15 February 2016 . en. 2019-05-03.
3. Web site: 2016 Election Center. CNN. June 5, 2018.
4. Web site: 2016 Election Center. CNN. 2016-09-25.