# Electoral history of Newt Gingrich

* This article is part of a series about Newt Gingrich
Political positions
Electoral history
1974 Georgia's 6th congressional district election
U.S. Speaker of the House
Contract with America
Republican Revolution
Government shutdowns
2012 presidential election
Campaign
Primaries
Organizations
Advocates for Opioid Recovery
American Solutions for Winning the Future
Center for Health Transformation
Writing
Nonfiction
Winning the Future
Rediscovering God in America
The Art of Transformation
A Contract with the Earth
To Save America
A Nation Like No Other
Understanding Trump
Fiction
1945
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
Grant Comes East
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
Pacific War series :
vte :
This is the electoral history of Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, a Republican, served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his resignation in November 1998. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in January 1999. In 2012, Gingrich was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination.

## Georgia's 6th congressional district
### 1974 election

1974 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Jack Flynt* | 49,082 | 51.45 |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich | 46,308 | 48.55 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 95,390 | 100.00 |

### 1976 election

1976 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Jack Flynt* | 77,532 | 51.71 |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich | 72,400 | 48.29 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 149,932 | 100.00 |

### 1978 election

1978 Georgia's 6th congressional district Republican primary election Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich | 4,597 | 75.56 |
| | Republican | David Barrow | 952 | 15.65 |
| | Republican | Michael W. "Mike" Esther | 535 | 8.79 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 6,084 | 100.00 |
1978 Georgia's 6th congressional district election Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich | 47,078 | 54.40 |
| | Democratic | Virginia Shapard | 39,451 | 45.59 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 86,529 | 100.00 |

### 1980 election

1980 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 96,071 | 59.05 |
| | Democratic | Dock H. Davis | 66,606 | 40.94 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 149,932 | 100.00 |

### 1982 election

1982 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 62,352 | 55.27 |
| | Democratic | Jim Wood | 50,459 | 44.73 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 112,812 | 100.00 |

### 1984 election

1984 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 116,655 | 69.14 |
| | Democratic | Gerald L. Johnson | 52,061 | 30.86 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 168,717 | 100.00 |

### 1986 election

1986 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 75,583 | 59.55 |
| | Democratic | Candle Bray | 51,352 | 40.46 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 126,935 | 100.00 |

### 1988 election

1988 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 110,169 | 58.92 |
| | Democratic | David Worley | 76,824 | 41.08 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 186,993 | 100.00 |

### 1990 election

1990 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 78,768 | 50.31 |
| | Democratic | David Worley | 77,794 | 49.69 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 156,562 | 100.00 |

### 1992 election

1992 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 158,761 | 57.74 |
| | Democratic | Tony Center | 116,196 | 42.26 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 274,957 | 100.00 |

### 1994 election

1994 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 119,432 | 64.17 |
| | Democratic | Ben Jones | 66,700 | 35.83 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 186,132 | 100.00 |

### 1996 election

1996 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 174,155 | 57.80 |
| | Democratic | Michael Coles | 127,135 | 42.20 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 301,290 | 100.00 |

### 1998 election

1998 Georgia's 6th congressional district election * denotes incumbent     Source: :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich* | 164,966 | 70.70 |
| | Democratic | Bats Pelphrey | 68,366 | 29.30 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 233,332 | 100.00 |

## Speaker of the House of Representatives
### 1995 election

1995 election for speaker – 104th Congress :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich (GA 6) | 228 | 52.54 |
| | Democratic | Dick Gephardt (MO 3) | 202 | 46.55 |
| | — | Present | 4 | 0.91 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 434 | 100 |
| Votes necessary | Votes necessary | Votes necessary | 218 | >50 |

### 1997 election

1997 election for speaker – 105th Congress * denotes incumbent :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich (GA 6)* | 216 | 50.83 |
| | Democratic | Dick Gephardt (MO 3) | 2050 | 48.24 |
| | Republican | Jim Leach (IA 1) | 20 | 0.47 |
| | Republican | Robert Michel | 10 | 0.23 |
| | Republican | Robert Walker | 10 | 0.23 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 425 | 100 |
| Votes necessary | Votes necessary | Votes necessary | 213 | >50 |

## United States President
### 2012

2012 Republican Party presidential primaries :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Mitt Romney | 9,685,780 | 51.50% |
| | Republican | Rick Santorum | 3,909,621 | 20.79% |
| | Republican | Newt Gingrich | 2,718,937 | 14.46% |
| | Republican | Ron Paul | 2,049,410 | 10.90% |
| | Republican | Jon Huntsman Jr. | 84,730 | 0.45% |
| | Republican | Rick Perry | 54,769 | 0.29% |
| | Republican | Michele Bachmann | 41,429 | 0.22% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 18,544,676 | 100.00% |