- Lead
- 5,238
- Total
- 16,960
- vs nation
- D+32.4
South Carolina 95th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,328
- Total
- 18,986
- vs nation
- D+34.1
- Lead
- 7,396
- Total
- 17,878
- vs nation
- D+39.3
- Lead
- 9,317
- Total
- 19,552
- vs nation
- D+43.8
- Lead
- 7,840
- Total
- 17,958
- vs nation
- D+36.4
- Lead
- 6,227
- Total
- 16,333
- vs nation
- D+40.6
- Lead
- 4,329
- Total
- 13,989
- vs nation
- D+30.4
- Lead
- 4,560
- Total
- 12,778
- vs nation
- D+27.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,4152024 5-year
- Population density
- 106 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 381 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $43,1212024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 64.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+15.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 29, MS · twin score 97.7
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 95th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
98.5%
1,319 votes · D+97.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 98.3%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
57.9%
3,425 votes · R+15.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 52.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
14,366votes
73.5% of the vote · D+47.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 13,091 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,764votes
34.0% of the vote · D+30.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,763 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
+119.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +111.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+38.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · −1.3 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.
South Carolina House District 95 leans heavily Democratic in presidential cycles, posting a 14-point margin in 2024, driven by the dense residential neighborhoods and historically Black communities within the Columbia metro.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 15.9 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.9 points.
A population of 40,415, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $43,121 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 29 and State House District 51.
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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