- Lead
- 2,618
- Total
- 17,823
- vs nation
- D+16.2
South Carolina 101st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,720
- Total
- 19,844
- vs nation
- D+19.3
- Lead
- 4,986
- Total
- 18,960
- vs nation
- D+24.2
- Lead
- 6,518
- Total
- 19,655
- vs nation
- D+29.3
- Lead
- 6,320
- Total
- 19,578
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 3,949
- Total
- 16,344
- vs nation
- D+26.6
- Lead
- 2,293
- Total
- 13,294
- vs nation
- D+16.7
- Lead
- 3,134
- Total
- 12,580
- vs nation
- D+16.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,4652024 5-year
- Population density
- 42 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 964 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $44,3962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 58.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+21.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 90, SC · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 101st 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
99.7%
1,486 votes · D+99.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 99.6%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
60.8%
4,152 votes · R+21.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 55.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
13,032votes
66.3% of the vote · D+33.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 12,893 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,496votes
42.1% of the vote · D+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,446 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
+124.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+98.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +124.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+44.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+21.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +1.5 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 a 2024 presidential margin of D+14.7 in a state that trended heavily Republican statewide, District 101's electorate stands out as a reliable anchor for Democratic candidates in South Carolina's lower chamber.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 21.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 40,465, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,396 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 90 and State House District 9.
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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South Carolina 101st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/45101/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.