Turnout for the 2024 general election in Liberty County was 64%, with 23,224 registered voters casting ballots.

Results will not be official until the elections and registration office confirms them Friday.

Most of the ballots were filled out during early voting. There 5,873 voters at the polls on Tuesday’s general election day, and there 15,793 votes recorded during early voting. Early voting alone accounted for a 43.5% turnout of the county’s 36,629 registered voters. Voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election was 60.36%, with 21,478 out of 35,582 registered voters casting ballots.

Liberty County voters went overwhelmingly for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, giving her 58.1% of the votes, or 13,431 out of 23,116 cast. Former president Donald Trump, who won Georgia in 2016 and lost it narrowly in 2020, won the state by 2.2 percentage points, or just over 117,000 votes.

Buddy Carter, who won a sixth term for Georgia’s 1st District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, won the district by more than 24 percentage points, capturing 62.2% of the votes. Democrat challenger Patti Hewitt outpolled Carter by 6.2 percentage points, taking 11,903 of the 22,425 votes in Liberty County. Carter lost Liberty County by more than 20 points in 2020.

State Rep. Al Williams (D-Midway) did not face general election opposition to retain his state House District 168 seat, and state Rep. Buddy Deloach (R-Townsend) held his seat against Democrat challenger Rebekah Moore. Deloach took 165 of 307 votes cast in Liberty County and won the district by more than 40 percentage points, taking 20,077 of the 28,445 votes in state House District 167.

Ben Watson also did not have opposition for his state Senate District 1 post.

Liberty County Probate Court Judge Nancy Aspinwall, Clerk of Courts Linda Dixon Thompson, Coroner Reggie Pierce, District 5 county Commissioner Gary Gilliard and District 6 county Commissioner Eddie Walden also did not have opposition in their re-election bids.

Chief Magistrate Michael McGirt, Tax Commissioner Jamie Sharp and State Court Solicitor Ches Merritt also did not have opposition in seeking their offices.

Liberty County voters also voted in favor of proposed state constitutional amendments 1 and 2 and approved statewide referendum A. All three measures also passed statewide. Amendment 1 paves the way for local governments to use a penny sales tax to offset millage rates, and amendment 2 creates a state tax court. The referendum dealt with raising certain property tax exemptions.