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July 21

Rrimary results

(August 11 runoff)

Runoff results

May 1

Total Number: 10

To Watch:
Question D: Veterans
Would broaden tax exemptions for veterans who not only own their motor vehicles, but also those who lease them.

Constitutional Amendment 3: Criminal Justice
Would provide for additional monetary penalties for offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and allocate the monies to the Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund for care and rehabilitation purposes.

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PARTY CONTROL

Governor: Democrat
U.S. Senate: 1 Democrat, 1 Republican
U.S. House of Representatives: 3 Democrat, 8 Republicans
State Senate: 33 Democrats, 23 Republicans
State House of Representatives: 101 Democrats, 79 Republicans

Senate: All 56 seats up
House: All 180 seats up

State Projected Voting Age Population: 5,418,000 (1996)
Registered Voters: 3,850,285 (9/98)

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LAST TIME VOTED DEMOCRATIC FOR PRESIDENT: 1992

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1996:

Dole 47%
Clinton 46%
Perot 6%

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1992:

Clinton 44%
Bush 43%
Perot 13%

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1988:

Bush 60%
Dukakis 40%

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1984:

Reagan 60%
Mondale 40%

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1980:

Carter 56%
Reagan 41%
Anderson 2%

1992:

• President
• Senate

1994:

• Governor

1996:

• President
• Senate

Historical voter turnout as a percentage of the voting age population 1996-1960

Population: 7,353,000 (1996)
(% of voting age population)

White: 73.5%
African American: 24.6%
Asian: 1.1%
Native American: 0.2%
Other/Undeclared: 0.6%

Persons of Hispanic origin account for 1.6% of the voting population (from 1990 Census)

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State Capital: Atlanta
State Nicknames: Peach State, Empire State of the South

As a result of a 1995 Supreme Court decision that declared two voting districts to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered on the basis of race, all the state's 11 congressional districts had to be redrawn; African Americans lost their majority in two of three districts. Georgia is the sixth fastest-growing state in the country this decade and voter registration has risen from 3.3 million to more than 4 million. A dramatic influx of new residents, and voters, is forcing incumbents, who might have expected an easy re-election, to campaign hard. Georgia is the only state to have not elected a Republican governor this century (Georgians haven't elected one since the Reconstruction). Political patterns over the last 20 years have shown the Democrats' "natural majority" gradually slipping away and depending more on the black votes. At other levels of government, Georgia has been moving strongly toward the Republicans ("Almanac of American Politics," 1998). Jimmy Carter, the only living former Democratic President, is a Georgian and is a former governor of the state. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) represents the 6th Congressional District.

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Updated: October 25, 1998

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