GEORGIA, USA — First Coast News is monitoring Georgia's election results live. The results are below.
Georgia is considered a fiercely contested battleground state going into Tuesday.
In 2020, Georgia voted for President Joe Biden by an incredibly slim 49.5% to 49.3%, the narrowest margin of victory in the 2020 election.
Before that, Georgia had voted Republican in every election since 1984 besides one -- 1992, when the state chose Bill Clinton. Going back to 1972, Georgia has only gone blue, such as with Clinton, when the Democratic candidate was from the South. Biden snapped that trend, defeating Trump by less than one-quarter of a percentage point, a margin of 11,779 votes.
Since then, Trump’s efforts to overturn those results have been at the heart of a criminal case in Fulton County. It is on hold while his legal team pursues a pretrial appeal to have District Attorney Fani Willis removed from the case and the indictment tossed. The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear those arguments after the election.
Both campaigns believe the race is extremely close across the seven swing states expected to decide the election, barring a major surprise. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Georgia's polls close at 7 p.m. The final results are expected to come in relatively quickly, according to the Associated Press, meaning Georgia could be an early indicator of the presidential race.
In 2020, the AP first reported Georgia results at 7:20 p.m. ET on Nov. 3 and declared Biden the state's winner at 7:58 p.m. ET on Nov. 19, more than two weeks after Election Day.
