- Lead
- 8,063
- Total
- 21,166
- vs nation
- R+36.6
South Carolina 33rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,822
- Total
- 20,670
- vs nation
- R+37.5
- Lead
- 6,656
- Total
- 17,502
- vs nation
- R+40.1
- Lead
- 5,022
- Total
- 15,753
- vs nation
- R+35.7
- Lead
- 4,668
- Total
- 15,466
- vs nation
- R+37.5
- Lead
- 5,261
- Total
- 13,986
- vs nation
- R+35.2
- Lead
- 4,251
- Total
- 12,101
- vs nation
- R+35.6
- Lead
- 2,158
- Total
- 9,477
- vs nation
- R+31.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+38.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,8942024 5-year
- Population density
- 166 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 247 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,4222024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 33, GA · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 33rd 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
98.1%
1,298 votes · D+96.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 97.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.5%
4,864 votes · R+60.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 70.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,791votes
32.9% of the vote · R+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,437 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,500votes
68.5% of the vote · R+38.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,613 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
+118.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+92.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +113.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+40.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.0 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +37.5 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+38.1 in 2024, compared with R+30.2 in 2008. About 106,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 66.6% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 60.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.1 points.
A population of 40,894, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,422 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 92.
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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South Carolina 33rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/45033/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.