- Lead
- 22,439
- Total
- 50,443
- vs nation
- R+43.0
South Carolina 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,303
- Total
- 48,816
- vs nation
- R+44.0
- Lead
- 16,442
- Total
- 40,818
- vs nation
- R+42.4
- Lead
- 12,796
- Total
- 37,383
- vs nation
- R+38.1
- Lead
- 11,204
- Total
- 37,908
- vs nation
- R+36.8
- Lead
- 10,108
- Total
- 33,504
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 7,440
- Total
- 28,775
- vs nation
- R+26.4
- Lead
- 2,240
- Total
- 24,707
- vs nation
- R+17.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+44.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 110,4672024 5-year
- Population density
- 165 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 669 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,8952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, TN · twin score 95.1
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 1st State Senate 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. Roosevelt1932
99.2%
2,584 votes · D+98.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 98.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.8%
7,903 votes · R+51.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,356votes
29.4% of the vote · R+39.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 13,646 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,085votes
71.5% of the vote · R+44.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 33,659 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
+121.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+96.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +116.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+44.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.5 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +43.0 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.
Anchored in the rural Upstate and Pee Dee regions, this district posted a 44.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a low-density electorate with deep ancestral ties to the state GOP's post-realignment coalition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 51.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.5 points.
A population of 110,467, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,895 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 and State Senate District 32.
The state-senate 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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