- Lead
- 8,714
- Total
- 19,461
- vs nation
- R+43.3
South Carolina 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,869
- Total
- 19,696
- vs nation
- R+44.4
- Lead
- 6,905
- Total
- 18,862
- vs nation
- R+38.7
- Lead
- 5,343
- Total
- 18,174
- vs nation
- R+33.3
- Lead
- 5,417
- Total
- 17,552
- vs nation
- R+38.1
- Lead
- 5,212
- Total
- 14,931
- vs nation
- R+32.4
- Lead
- 4,227
- Total
- 13,180
- vs nation
- R+32.6
- Lead
- 2,142
- Total
- 10,782
- vs nation
- R+28.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+44.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,9702024 5-year
- Population density
- 64 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 644 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,4762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+63.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 31, AL · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 65th 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
99.1%
446 votes · D+98.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 99.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
81.2%
7,833 votes · R+63.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 71.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
6,243votes
34.4% of the vote · R+29.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 5,896 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,985votes
71.9% of the vote · R+44.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,660 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
+122.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+95.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +121.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+56.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +44.4 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.
Its Republican presidential margin was R+44.8 in 2024 and R+30.9 in 2008. About 69,300 residents lived here, with White alone at 64.4% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 63.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.8 points.
A population of 40,970, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,476 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 31 and State House District 174.
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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