- Lead
- 8,009
- Total
- 70,128
- vs nation
- R+9.9
South Carolina 43rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,113
- Total
- 67,875
- vs nation
- R+12.0
- Lead
- 7,638
- Total
- 55,082
- vs nation
- R+16.0
- Lead
- 9,825
- Total
- 51,219
- vs nation
- R+23.0
- Lead
- 6,279
- Total
- 48,150
- vs nation
- R+20.3
- Lead
- 10,425
- Total
- 41,761
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 8,602
- Total
- 34,322
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 6,196
- Total
- 28,302
- vs nation
- R+30.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 114,9542024 5-year
- Population density
- 246 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 468 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,0792024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, KY · twin score 85.1
presidential history
Party record book
South Carolina 43rd 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
91.7%
1,366 votes · D+83.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 87.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
75.7%
11,461 votes · R+53.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 75.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,844votes
45.4% of the vote · R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 30,530 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,539votes
55.0% of the vote · R+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 35,957 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
+86.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +82.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+73.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +43.0 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+11.5, against R+13.0 in 2008. About 169,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 67.2% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 53.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.4 points.
A population of 114,954, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,079 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 6 and State Senate District 56.
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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