County Unit System and Georgia's 1946 Primary
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« on: February 22, 2007, 01:52:20 AM »

The popular vote returns for the 1946 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary

J. V. Carmichael - 313384 (45%)
Eugene Talmadge - 297245 (43%)
E. D. Rivers - 69489 (10%)
Hoke O'Reilly - 11758 (2%)

But, since Georgia had the County Unit system, the results were 244-144 Talmadge with 22 votes for Rivers.

The split between the 2, 4, and 6 vote counties

In the 8 six vote counties, Carmichael won 59/35 (226727 votes)
In the 30 four vote counties, Carmichael won 46/41 (170745 votes)
In the 121 two vote counties, Talmadge won 50/34 (294404 votes)

So while the two vote counties cast 42% of the popular votes, they had 60% of the unit votes.

Carmichael won 7 of 8 six vote counties
Talmadge won 15 four vote counties, Carmichael won 14, and Rivers won 1
Talmadge won 89 two vote counties, Carmichael won 23, and Rivers won 9

Here's the manually-made map for this election



So basically, all the little counties "out-voted" the big counties, in a county-unit sense.
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