- Lead
- 3,943
- Total
- 20,801
- vs nation
- D+20.4
South Carolina 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,326
- Total
- 20,783
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 2,295
- Total
- 17,610
- vs nation
- D+10.9
- Lead
- 2,563
- Total
- 16,725
- vs nation
- D+11.5
- Lead
- 2,404
- Total
- 17,042
- vs nation
- D+6.8
- Lead
- 484
- Total
- 13,770
- vs nation
- D+6.0
- Lead
- 244
- Total
- 11,829
- vs nation
- D+1.5
- Lead
- 876
- Total
- 9,658
- vs nation
- D+0.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,2102024 5-year
- Population density
- 262 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 161 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,1082024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 42.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 66, AR · twin score 89.0
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 52nd 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
John W. Davis1924
99.1%
347 votes · D+98.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 99.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
66.4%
4,128 votes · R+34.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 59.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
12,415votes
59.7% of the vote · D+20.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 12,225 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,282votes
39.8% of the vote · D+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,089 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
+123.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+98.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +114.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+41.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +12.4 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+19.0, against D+14.1 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 45%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.6 points in 1924 and a Republican high of 34.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.0 points.
A population of 42,210, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,108 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 66 and State House District 60.
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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