- Lead
- 1,296
- Total
- 21,735
- vs nation
- R+4.5
South Carolina 102nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,056
- Total
- 19,172
- vs nation
- D+1.1
- Lead
- 411
- Total
- 14,950
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 770
- Total
- 13,442
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 895
- Total
- 12,614
- vs nation
- R+0.2
- Lead
- 346
- Total
- 9,917
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 93
- Total
- 8,243
- vs nation
- D+0.6
- Lead
- 344
- Total
- 6,342
- vs nation
- R+3.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,3382024 5-year
- Population density
- 96 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 422 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,1392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 38.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.0 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 103, SC · twin score 85.2
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 102nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 36 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
100.0%
108 votes · D+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 99.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
58.9%
2,783 votes · R+18.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 56.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
10,050votes
46.2% of the vote · R+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,967 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,346votes
52.2% of the vote · R+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,911 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
+123.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+98.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +122.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+34.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+12.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +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, South Carolina House District 102 sits in the competitive middle of the state's legislative map, where a six-point Republican presidential margin signals a district neither safely locked nor deeply contested.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 100.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 18.0 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.0 points.
A population of 40,338, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,139 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 103 and State House District 35.
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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