- Lead
- 611
- Total
- 18,191
- vs nation
- D+4.8
South Carolina 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,472
- Total
- 19,876
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 2,581
- Total
- 18,140
- vs nation
- D+12.1
- Lead
- 3,882
- Total
- 18,610
- vs nation
- D+17.0
- Lead
- 3,239
- Total
- 18,088
- vs nation
- D+10.6
- Lead
- 1,697
- Total
- 15,431
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 1,518
- Total
- 13,101
- vs nation
- D+11.1
- Lead
- 2,215
- Total
- 11,099
- vs nation
- D+11.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,6912024 5-year
- Population density
- 137 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 298 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $42,9182024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 51.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 72, AL · twin score 97.4
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 62nd 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
100.0%
671 votes · D+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 100.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.7%
5,794 votes · R+27.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 50.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
11,227votes
60.3% of the vote · D+20.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,080 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,689votes
47.8% of the vote · D+3.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,608 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
+125.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+100.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +124.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+19.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+3.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +4.5 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.
With roughly 40,000 residents, this South Carolina House district sits in competitive territory, where a narrow 2024 presidential margin signals a constituency that has trended away from the state's dominant Republican lean in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 100.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 27.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.4 points.
A population of 40,691, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,918 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 72 and State House District 90.
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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