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1876–2024
State Senate District 27·South Carolina

South Carolina 27th State Senate District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 26 points.

1876 — 2024·38 elections
SC
Latest
R+26
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
164,898
2024 ACS

South Carolina 27th State Senate District, South Carolina: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+26%. Democratic peak: D+100 in 1936.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+26MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
164,8982024 5-year
Median household income
$69,7562024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
66.4%2024 5-year
Black
22.7%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
6.8%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+100 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+46 in 1972MIT Election Lab
2024 results by constituent county
3 counties · 0 D · 3 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−26.2%
29,41950,64381,021
R
−22.4%
29,63947,01777,569
R
−23.0%
23,43038,04163,654
R
−14.4%
24,54132,89958,103
R
−12.9%
23,32530,35554,299
R
−19.1%
16,99825,13342,552
R
−13.0%
16,85721,97839,362
D
+4.5%
16,14214,63933,491
D
+1.9%
15,62314,94535,163
R
−18.1%
11,79117,04428,975
R
−24.0%
11,28218,45329,849
D
+11.4%
15,36812,16128,147
D
+26.8%
17,1169,85827,083
R
−46.5%
6,01116,65322,903
O
−7.1%
6,8138,63225,508
D
+3.5%
9,9559,28019,236
D
+29.7%
10,3135,59415,907
D
+38.1%
7,8332,90312,927
D
+23.7%
9,3775,78615,163
O
+29.6%
1,674795,386
D
+95.8%
5,816366,036
D
+98.6%
5,843405,883
D
+99.5%
5,74005,766
D
+99.4%
5,03505,063
D
+97.8%
3,096343,130
D
+98.8%
2,874172,892
D
+97.7%
3,795443,839
D
+99.1%
3,369113,388
D
+98.7%
2,37002,402
D
+93.1%
3,2331153,350
D
+94.1%
2,745832,829
D
+90.9%
2,7361312,867
D
+77.2%
3,2414163,658
D
+50.8%
3,3791,0594,569
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
12.5%
Irish
8.5%
German
8.2%
American
7.5%
Italian
3.1%
Scottish
2.3%
Polish
1.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 41.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.7%
85+
1.6%
3.0%
75–84
3.3%
5.5%
65–74
6.6%
6.2%
55–64
6.7%
6.5%
45–54
6.5%
6.3%
35–44
6.5%
5.8%
25–34
6.0%
3.5%
18–24
3.3%
8.5%
5–17
7.9%
3.0%
<5
2.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$69,756
State Senate District 27 ranks near the middle of US counties.
State Senate District 27$69,756
South Carolina$69,324
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
13.8%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1819.3%
Working age (18–64)12.5%
Seniors (65+)10.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
92.4%
speak English only
Spanish5.2%
Other Indo-European1.6%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.7%
Other languages0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
22.9%
Methodist
9.5%
Other Christian
7.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
5.1%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.7%
Mainline Protestant
1.4%
Non-Christian
0.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

South Carolina 27th State Senate District sits in the Deep South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in South Carolina 27th State Senate District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in South Carolina 27th State Senate District, by a thirteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-six points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-six points.

The political shift has tracked, in South Carolina 27th State Senate District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 66% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $69,756, and a 14% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State Senate District 27, South Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, State Senate District 27, South Carolina voted Republican by 26.2 points (R+26), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 81,021 votes cast, 29,419 went Democratic and 50,643 went Republican.
What is State Senate District 27, South Carolina's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State Senate District 27, South Carolina as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 22 times, Republican 10 times, and other 2 times.
When did State Senate District 27, South Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State Senate District 27, South Carolina voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in State Senate District 27, South Carolina?
State Senate District 27, South Carolina has a population of 164,898 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State Senate District 27, South Carolina?
Median household income in State Senate District 27, South Carolina is $69,756 — below the national median of $80,734. The South Carolina state median is $69,324.
What is the political history of State Senate District 27, South Carolina?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State Senate District 27, South Carolina from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 10 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.