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Georgia's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)

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Election details
Filing deadline: March 8, 2024
Primary: May 21, 2024
Primary runoff: June 18, 2024
General: November 5, 2024
General runoff: December 3, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voting in Georgia
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic
DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic
Inside Elections: Solid Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds
U.S. House battlegrounds
Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
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A Democratic Party primary took place on May 21, 2024, in Georgia's 4th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Hank Johnson advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 4.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 78.5%-21.5%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 78.3%-20.6%.[2]

Georgia conducted redistricting between the 2022 and 2024 elections. As a result, district lines in this state changed. To review how redistricting took place in Georgia and to see maps of the new districts, click here. For a list of all states that drew new district lines between 2022 and 2024, click here.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
March 8, 2024
May 21, 2024
November 5, 2024


A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Georgia utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3][4]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Georgia's 4th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 4

Incumbent Hank Johnson advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Georgia District 4 on May 21, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Hank Johnson
 
100.0
 
53,269

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 53,269
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Candidate profiles

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Georgia

Election information in Georgia: May 21, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

  • In-person: April 22, 2024
  • By mail: Received by April 22, 2024
  • Online: April 22, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

  • In-person: May 10, 2024
  • By mail: Received by May 10, 2024
  • Online: May 10, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

  • In-person: May 21, 2024
  • By mail: Received by May 21, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

April 29, 2024 to May 17, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (EST)


Campaign finance

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Hank Johnson Democratic Party $669,938 $622,047 $111,676 As of December 31, 2024

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting ahead of the 2024 election.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.


Below is the district map used in the 2022 election next to the map in place for the 2024 election. Click on a map below to enlarge it.

2022

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2024

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See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Georgia.

Georgia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Year Districts/
offices 		Seats Open seats Candidates Possible primaries Contested Democratic primaries Contested Republican primaries % of contested primaries Incumbents in contested primaries % of incumbents in contested primaries
2024 14 14 1 54 28 8 4 42.9% 3 23.1%
2022 14 14 2 82 28 8 9 60.7% 8 61.5%
2020 14 14 3 77 28 8 8 57.1% 5 45.5%
2018 14 14 0 48 28 8 5 46.4% 5 35.7%
2016 14 14 1 44 28 2 7 32.1% 5 38.5%
2014 14 14 3 49 28 3 8 39.3% 5 45.5%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Georgia in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 2, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Fifty-five candidates ran for Georgia’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 30 Democrats and 25 Republicans. That’s 3.9 candidates per district, lower than the 5.9 candidates per district in 2022 and the 5.5 in 2020.

This was the first election to take place after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed revised congressional maps into law on Dec. 8, 2023.

The 3rd Congressional District was the only open district in 2024, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That’s one less than in 2022, when two seats were open. There were three open seats in 2020, none in 2018, one in 2016, and three in 2014.

Incumbent Drew Ferguson (R-3rd) did not run for re-election because he retired from public office.

As a result of redistricting in Georgia, two incumbents ran for re-election in different districts than the ones they represented. Lucy McBath (D-7th) ran in the 6th Congressional District and Rich McCormick (R-6th) ran in the 7th Congressional District.

Nine candidates—seven Democrats and two Republicans—ran for the 13th Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a seat in 2024.

Twelve primaries—eight Democratic and four Republican—were contested in 2024. Seventeen primaries were contested in 2022, 16 primaries were contested in 2020, and 13 were in 2018.

Three incumbents—two Democrats and one Republican—were in contested primaries, the fewest this decade.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 14 districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+27. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 27 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Georgia's 4th the 29th most Democratic district nationally.[5]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Georgia's 4th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
78.3% 20.6%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[6] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline Democratic Party Republican Baseline Republican Party Difference
76.3 22.7 R+53.5

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Georgia, 2020

Georgia presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 20 Democratic wins
  • 10 Republican wins
  • 1 other win
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D R AI[7] R D D R R D R R R R R R D
See also: Party control of Georgia state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Georgia's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Georgia
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 2 5 7
Republican 0 9 9
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 14 16

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Georgia's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Georgia, May 2024
Office Officeholder
Governor Republican Party Brian Kemp
Lieutenant Governor Republican Party Burt Jones
Secretary of State Republican Party Brad Raffensperger
Attorney General Republican Party Chris Carr

State legislature

Georgia State Senate

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 23
     Republican Party 32
     Other 0
     Vacancies 1
Total 56

Georgia House of Representatives

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 78
     Republican Party 100
     Independent 0
     Other 0
     Vacancies 2
Total 180

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Georgia Party Control: 1992-2024
Eleven years of Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Governor D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Senate D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
House D D D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Georgia in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Georgia, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Georgia U.S. House Ballot-qualified party N/A $5,220.00 3/8/2024 Source
Georgia U.S. House Unaffiliated 27,992[8] $5,220.00 7/9/2024 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
  2. ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
  3. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed August 12, 2024
  4. ↑ Justia, "2023 Georgia Code § 21-2-224 - Registration deadlines; restrictions on voting in primaries; official list of electors; voting procedure when portion of county changed from one county to another," accessed August 12, 2024
  5. ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
  6. ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
  7. ↑ American Independent Party
  8. ↑ Average of all congressional districts.


Georgia's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
Jon Ossoff (D)
Raphael Warnock (D)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
Republican Party (9)
Democratic Party (7)


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