- Lead
- 20,605
- Total
- 53,018
- vs nation
- R+37.4
South Carolina 23rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,780
- Total
- 51,449
- vs nation
- R+41.0
- Lead
- 20,151
- Total
- 44,415
- vs nation
- R+47.5
- Lead
- 19,111
- Total
- 41,041
- vs nation
- R+50.4
- Lead
- 18,726
- Total
- 40,022
- vs nation
- R+54.1
- Lead
- 18,173
- Total
- 34,274
- vs nation
- R+50.6
- Lead
- 15,469
- Total
- 30,364
- vs nation
- R+51.5
- Lead
- 9,461
- Total
- 22,756
- vs nation
- R+50.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+38.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 116,3772024 5-year
- Population density
- 334 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 348 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,3212024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+76.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 14, AL · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 23rd 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
John W. Davis1924
98.7%
386 votes · D+97.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 98.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
87.6%
9,826 votes · R+76.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 84.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,908votes
30.9% of the vote · R+36.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 15,844 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,449votes
68.7% of the vote · R+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 34,688 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
+122.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+97.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +117.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+76.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +55.9 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+38.9 in 2024 and R+46.8 in 2008. The district had about 141,000 residents, 72% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.7 points in 1924 and a Republican high of 76.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.9 points.
A population of 116,377, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,321 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 14 and State Senate District 11.
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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South Carolina 23rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/45023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.