- Lead
- 1,780
- Total
- 50,901
- vs nation
- D+5.0
South Carolina 32nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,644
- Total
- 53,047
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 8,630
- Total
- 49,912
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 11,740
- Total
- 49,763
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 12,196
- Total
- 48,959
- vs nation
- D+17.6
- Lead
- 7,584
- Total
- 39,388
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 5,636
- Total
- 33,112
- vs nation
- D+16.5
- Lead
- 7,495
- Total
- 28,947
- vs nation
- D+17.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 105,7102024 5-year
- Population density
- 46 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,308 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $50,4582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 49.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+17.6 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 45, SC · twin score 95.8
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 32nd 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
99.4%
3,089 votes · D+98.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 99.3%
Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes1876
58.8%
3,903 votes · R+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 56.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
30,563votes
61.4% of the vote · D+23.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 30,402 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
24,261votes
47.7% of the vote · D+3.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 22,449 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
+123.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+97.6 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +123.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+36.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −5.0 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.
The 2024 presidential margin was D+3.5, one of the narrower results among South Carolina's state senate districts, compared with D+24.9 in 2008. About 307,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 63.3% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 17.6 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.5 points.
A population of 105,710, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,458 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 45 and State Senate District 22.
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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