- Lead
- 262
- Total
- 16,433
- vs nation
- D+3.1
South Carolina 54th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,989
- Total
- 18,244
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 2,456
- Total
- 15,979
- vs nation
- D+13.3
- Lead
- 3,895
- Total
- 15,892
- vs nation
- D+20.7
- Lead
- 4,112
- Total
- 16,594
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 2,665
- Total
- 13,462
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 3,275
- Total
- 12,229
- vs nation
- D+26.3
- Lead
- 4,413
- Total
- 11,546
- vs nation
- D+29.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,4072024 5-year
- Population density
- 53 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 757 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $40,4822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 48.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+22.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, SC · twin score 97.3
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 54th 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
99.8%
1,302 votes · D+99.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 99.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
60.8%
5,105 votes · R+22.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 48.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
10,290votes
62.0% of the vote · D+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,028 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
8,039votes
44.1% of the vote · D+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 7,987 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
+125.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+99.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +124.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
−1.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+22.1 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −3.1 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 2024 presidential margin was D+1.6, one of the narrower results among South Carolina's state house districts, compared with D+24.8 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 46.9%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 22.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.6 points.
A population of 40,407, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $40,482 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 62 and State House District 154.
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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