- Lead
- 9,024
- Total
- 23,719
- vs nation
- R+36.6
South Carolina 68th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,218
- Total
- 21,261
- vs nation
- R+38.4
- Lead
- 6,059
- Total
- 14,777
- vs nation
- R+43.1
- Lead
- 4,152
- Total
- 12,368
- vs nation
- R+37.4
- Lead
- 3,305
- Total
- 11,520
- vs nation
- R+36.0
- Lead
- 2,678
- Total
- 8,878
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 1,589
- Total
- 7,758
- vs nation
- R+21.0
- Lead
- 515
- Total
- 6,041
- vs nation
- R+17.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+38.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,1242024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,005 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,8752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 56, SC · twin score 93.7
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 68th 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
100.0%
332 votes · D+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · 98.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.4%
1,742 votes · R+55.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
7,235votes
30.5% of the vote · R+38.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 6,917 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,259votes
68.5% of the vote · R+38.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,135 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 · +116.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+48.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +43.1 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 38 points, District 68 sits among the state's least competitive house seats, reflecting deep-rural voter patterns that have hardened consistently over successive election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 100.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 55.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.0 points.
A population of 42,124, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,875 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 56 and State Legislative Subdistrict 38C.
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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