Editing Lee County, Georgia (section)

==Politics==
Historically, Lee County was part of the solidly Democratic [[Solid South]]<ref>Phillips, Kevin P.; ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', p. 267 {{ISBN|9780691163246}}</ref> where control of the dominant black population dictated unified white voting for Democratic candidates due to the Republican association with [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] and black political power. However, with a combination of [[Great Migration (African American)|the Great Migration]] and white in-migration, the black share of the county's population has declined and it is now powerfully Republican, having voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964, with the exception of 1968 and 1976 when it backed Southern “[[favorite son]]s” [[George Wallace]] and [[Jimmy Carter]].

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|12,655|4,957|118|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|12,007|4,558|154|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|10,646|3,170|430|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|10,314|3,196|136|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|9,925|3,100|87|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|8,201|2,182|45|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,872|1,936|76|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,983|2,005|525|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,061|1,811|1,036|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|2,875|995|13|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|2,972|1,284|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,942|1,670|49|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,110|1,727|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,441|390|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|389|674|1,201|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,041|244|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|191|404|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|79|532|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|205|390|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|36|215|217|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|27|447|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|17|416|2|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1|490|1|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6|252|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|45|287|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|23|211|11|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|19|251|0|Georgia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|4|316|3|Georgia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|5|213|7|Georgia}}