- Lead
- 13,876
- Total
- 47,684
- vs nation
- R+27.6
South Carolina 11th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,506
- Total
- 47,082
- vs nation
- R+24.6
- Lead
- 7,055
- Total
- 36,484
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 3,973
- Total
- 33,642
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 3,399
- Total
- 33,242
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 5,400
- Total
- 29,339
- vs nation
- R+15.9
- Lead
- 4,050
- Total
- 25,398
- vs nation
- R+16.5
- Lead
- 630
- Total
- 20,731
- vs nation
- R+11.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+29.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 114,7992024 5-year
- Population density
- 651 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 176 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,4522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, KY · twin score 89.9
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 11th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
98.6%
3,800 votes · D+97.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 97.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.1%
8,608 votes · R+41.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 64.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
18,461votes
39.2% of the vote · R+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,622 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
30,498votes
64.0% of the vote · R+29.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,967 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
+120.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +113.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+27.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +24.6 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.
Its Republican presidential margin was R+29.1 in 2024 and R+10.2 in 2008. About 76,100 residents lived here, with White alone at 66.6% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 41.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.1 points.
A population of 114,799, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,452 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 8.
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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