- Lead
- 9,434
- Total
- 21,349
- vs nation
- R+42.7
South Carolina 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,097
- Total
- 20,864
- vs nation
- R+43.3
- Lead
- 7,034
- Total
- 18,154
- vs nation
- R+40.8
- Lead
- 5,375
- Total
- 16,604
- vs nation
- R+36.2
- Lead
- 4,563
- Total
- 16,942
- vs nation
- R+34.2
- Lead
- 4,069
- Total
- 15,018
- vs nation
- R+24.6
- Lead
- 2,904
- Total
- 12,841
- vs nation
- R+23.1
- Lead
- 578
- Total
- 11,113
- vs nation
- R+13.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+44.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,7892024 5-year
- Population density
- 255 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 160 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,7312024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 33, GA · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 2nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
99.1%
1,157 votes · D+98.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 97.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.2%
3,437 votes · R+50.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,220votes
29.8% of the vote · R+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 6,076 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,257votes
71.5% of the vote · R+44.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,317 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+119.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +116.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+43.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.8 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +42.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+44.1, this upstate or rural district ranks among the most one-sided in the state, reflecting the heavily Republican political geography common to South Carolina's small-town and agricultural communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 50.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.2 points.
A population of 40,789, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,731 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 33 and State House District 17.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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