- Lead
- 4,280
- Total
- 17,556
- vs nation
- R+22.9
South Carolina 32nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,636
- Total
- 17,787
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 3,331
- Total
- 14,350
- vs nation
- R+25.3
- Lead
- 2,089
- Total
- 13,173
- vs nation
- R+19.7
- Lead
- 1,874
- Total
- 13,047
- vs nation
- R+21.6
- Lead
- 2,540
- Total
- 11,467
- vs nation
- R+19.7
- Lead
- 1,977
- Total
- 10,088
- vs nation
- R+20.1
- Lead
- 561
- Total
- 8,132
- vs nation
- R+15.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,6162024 5-year
- Population density
- 650 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 62.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,7192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 25, MS · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 32nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
98.7%
1,411 votes · D+97.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 98.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
71.6%
3,519 votes · R+45.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,921votes
38.9% of the vote · R+20.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,521 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
10,801votes
61.5% of the vote · R+24.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,557 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
James M. Cox1920
+120.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +116.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+25.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.2 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +24.9 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.
South Carolina House District 32 leans heavily Republican at the presidential level, with a 2024 margin of R+24.4 in a district of roughly 40,000 residents — a gap that limits sustained competitive general-election pressure.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.4 points.
A population of 40,616, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,719 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 25 and State House District 34.
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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