- Lead
- 1,831
- Total
- 49,496
- vs nation
- D+5.2
South Carolina 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,620
- Total
- 49,446
- vs nation
- D+2.9
- Lead
- 1,232
- Total
- 43,144
- vs nation
- D+0.8
- Lead
- 3,701
- Total
- 43,753
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 2,583
- Total
- 43,118
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 1,615
- Total
- 35,745
- vs nation
- R+2.1
- Lead
- 2,395
- Total
- 30,344
- vs nation
- R+8.4
- Lead
- 67
- Total
- 25,210
- vs nation
- R+8.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 113,9372024 5-year
- Population density
- 116 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 984 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,0512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 36.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.0 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 24, AL · twin score 91.0
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 35th 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. Roosevelt1936
97.9%
2,198 votes · D+95.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 97.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
68.9%
12,047 votes · R+39.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 66.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
26,192votes
53.0% of the vote · D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25,259 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
23,428votes
47.3% of the vote · D+3.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 22,572 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
+119.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +111.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+54.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +16.4 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.
South Carolina's 35th Senate District leans reliably toward Republicans at the presidential level, with a 14.6-point 2024 margin suggesting limited swing potential in statewide cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.0 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 39.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.7 points.
A population of 113,937, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,051 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 24 and State Senate District 26.
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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