Georgia

Congressional Races:
Districts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Senatorial Races

Population (1994): 7,055,000 (up 8.9% from 1990), 2.7% of U.S. total

Voting-age population: 5,159,000; 1994 turnout, 30%

Median age: 31.6 years

Median household income: $31,467 ($797 below U.S. median)

Unemployment: 4.5% (1.1% below U.S. average, March 1996)

Last presidential election:

Clinton (D): 43%

Bush (R): 43%

Perot (I): 13%

Congressional delegation: Four Democrats, nine Republicans

A 1995 Supreme Court decision--declaring the Second and 11th Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered on the basis of race--has made this year's Georgia election something of a peach cobbler. All the state's 11 congressional districts had to be redrawn; African Americans lost their majority in two of three districts. Though conservative Republicans saw this upheaval as an opportunity, Cynthia McKinney is on track to defeat those expectations--and perhaps the odds--in the newly constituted Fourth. And the question much of the nation is asking is whether Newt Gingrich will be gone with the wind.

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