- Lead
- 903
- Total
- 21,625
- vs nation
- R+2.7
South Carolina 122nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,470
- Total
- 20,133
- vs nation
- D+2.8
- Lead
- 2,128
- Total
- 17,995
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 3,600
- Total
- 17,420
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 3,762
- Total
- 16,774
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 2,277
- Total
- 13,807
- vs nation
- D+18.9
- Lead
- 2,880
- Total
- 13,246
- vs nation
- D+21.2
- Lead
- 4,183
- Total
- 12,570
- vs nation
- D+24.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+4.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,7702024 5-year
- Population density
- 33 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,251 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,9622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.1 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 64, SC · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 122nd 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
James M. Cox1920
100.0%
831 votes · D+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 100.0%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
77.0%
171 votes · R+54.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 70.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,713votes
53.2% of the vote · D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 10,425 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,141votes
51.5% of the vote · R+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 9,243 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
+126.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+100.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +119.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+46.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +18.8 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+4.2 in 2024 and D+22.4 in 2008, switching sides at least once in between. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 46.8%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 100.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 54.1 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.2 points.
A population of 41,770, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,962 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 64 and State House District 50.
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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