Summerton, SC
| Election | Margin |
|---|---|
| 2008 | D+34.1 |
| 2012 | D+33.1 |
| 2016 | D+21.6 |
| 2020 | D+15.6 |
| 2024 | even |
Turnout is unavailable because a compatible reported ballots-cast numerator and denominator are not both present.
Akashic
| Population | 803 |
|---|---|
| Latest presidential result | a near-tie (2024) |
| Results on record | 2004–2024 presidential |
| Median household income | $40,469 |
| County | Clarendon County |
| State | SC |
Place narrative
Summerton's roughly 800 residents live in one of the poorest corners of the Pee Dee lowlands, and the town's mid-20th-century school-equalization lawsuit made it a quiet but consequential landmark in American civil-rights litigation.
Akashic
Presidential history
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Other | Candidate total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | Tied | 222 | 223 | 7 | 452 |
| 2020 | D | +15.6% | 280 | 204 | 2 | 486 |
| 2016 | D | +21.6% | 239 | 153 | 7 | 399 |
| 2012 | D | +33.1% | 284 | 142 | 3 | 429 |
| 2008 | D | +34.1% | 285 | 137 | 12 | 434 |
| 2004† | D | +29.5% | 230 | 125 | 1 | 356 |
Third-party votes in 2012 are allocated from certified county totals by this place's share of each county's two-party vote — that cycle's precinct source records two-party splits.
These Census-place returns are modeled candidate-vote estimates on Census boundaries unless a row explicitly says certified. They are not automatically the official city or town return.
† 2004 sub-county results are estimated: the source reported that cycle at county or municipality level (COVID-era consolidated reporting), so block-level detail is interpolated from adjacent cycles and scaled to certified totals.
Demographics
Akashic
| Race & Ethnicity | |
|---|---|
| White | 69.6% |
| Black | 27.5% |
| Asian | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 0.0% |
| Income & Age | |
| Median household income | $40,469 |
| Poverty rate | 24.2% |
| Median age | 44.5 |
| Age 18–29 | 11.5% |
| Age 65 and older | 25.3% |
| Education & Language | |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher (25+) | 32.1% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 1.3% |
ACS 5-year survey estimates, subject to a margin of error. Race shares are single-race; Hispanic or Latino is a separate, overlapping ethnicity.
Ancestry, religious adherence, and side-by-side parent comparisons appear on the Clarendon County county page and the SC state page.