Editing Chatham County, Georgia (section)

==Politics==
Chatham County was one of the earliest counties in Georgia to turn Republican and shake off its [[Solid South]] roots. From 1952 to 2000, the county voted for the Republican candidate for president all but four times. In 1968, [[Hubert Humphrey]] carried Chatham County by 95 votes over second-place [[Richard Nixon]], and Chatham was one of only eight Georgia counties in which [[George Wallace]] came in as low as third place. [[Jimmy Carter]] won a majority in both of his runs for president, and in 1996, [[Bill Clinton]] became the first non-Georgian Democrat since Franklin D. 
Roosevelt to win a majority.

The county has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 2004, when [[John Kerry]] carried it by fewer than 150 votes and won a plurality. It would swing dramatically to support [[Barack Obama]] in 2008, making Obama only the second non-Georgian Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win a majority of the county's votes. Since then, Chatham has tended to vote substantially more for Democrats at the presidential level than the state as a whole. In the last four presidential elections, Democrats have recorded the biggest margins for non-Georgian Democrats since Roosevelt's landslides. This culminated in [[Joe Biden]]'s winning 58.6% of the vote in the 2020 election, outdoing Jimmy Carter's 57% in 1976 for the best performance of a Democrat in the county since Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. Since 2008, Chatham has been one of the most reliably Democratic urban counties in the state outside the Atlanta area, and one of the few Democratic pockets in heavily Republican South Georgia.

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{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|45,484|45,630|557|Georgia}}
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{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|31,987|35,781|3,509|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|31,925|31,533|8,611|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|35,623|25,063|603|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|38,482|28,271|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|26,499|28,413|1,869|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|24,160|32,075|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|38,079|15,566|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|18,106|18,201|17,238|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|33,141|23,176|1|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|17,935|16,240|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|14,520|8,698|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|15,532|14,370|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|5,966|10,864|7,067|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,058|8,725|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,985|10,048|19|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,227|10,019|24|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,669|8,020|55|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|5,288|5,534|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|1,800|6,158|857|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|995|4,243|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|368|3,797|616|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|238|3,864|332|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|1,209|3,305|42|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|363|2,645|14|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|916|3,352|7|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,697|2,506|558|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|1,359|5,264|55|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|1,355|3,920|57|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|1,747|3,144|0|Georgia}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|2,160|3,404|0|Georgia}}