- Lead
- 3,510
- Total
- 20,853
- vs nation
- R+15.4
South Carolina 124th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,389
- Total
- 19,210
- vs nation
- R+16.9
- Lead
- 3,229
- Total
- 16,150
- vs nation
- R+22.1
- Lead
- 3,592
- Total
- 15,026
- vs nation
- R+27.8
- Lead
- 2,411
- Total
- 14,079
- vs nation
- R+24.4
- Lead
- 3,170
- Total
- 11,352
- vs nation
- R+25.5
- Lead
- 2,177
- Total
- 9,073
- vs nation
- R+24.5
- Lead
- 1,276
- Total
- 6,936
- vs nation
- R+26.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+16.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 42,2512024 5-year
- Population density
- 505 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 83.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,8412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+90.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+91.8 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 43, KS · twin score 81.9
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 124th 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
95.2%
80 votes · D+90.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 93.4%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
95.9%
1,286 votes · R+91.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 93.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
8,517votes
40.8% of the vote · R+16.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 8,242 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,027votes
57.7% of the vote · R+16.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,631 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
+100.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +80.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+40.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +36.8 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.
With roughly 42,000 residents and a 2024 presidential margin of R+16.9, this South Carolina House district sits firmly in the state's Republican column, making it a benchmark for measuring baseline conservative strength in the Upstate region.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 91.8 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.8 points.
A population of 42,251, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,841 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 43 and State House District 29.
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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