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South Carolina

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President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideR+17.9

46 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results46 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

AllendaleD+44.7Dem 2,165Rep 813Other 45Total 3,023RichlandD+34.6Dem 121,110Rep 58,019Other 3,282Total 182,411OrangeburgD+24.6Dem 22,832Rep 13,750Other 388Total 36,970WilliamsburgD+21.7Dem 8,634Rep 5,524Other 172Total 14,330LeeD+17.7Dem 4,505Rep 3,078Other 493Total 8,076BambergD+15.3Dem 3,245Rep 2,376Other 73Total 5,694FairfieldD+13.2Dem 6,277Rep 4,792Other 146Total 11,215MarionD+10.5Dem 7,316Rep 5,906Other 166Total 13,388HamptonD+6.4Dem 4,328Rep 3,801Other 104Total 8,233CharlestonD+5.7Dem 111,427Rep 99,265Other 3,829Total 214,521SumterD+4.9Dem 23,425Rep 21,215Other 530Total 45,170MarlboroD+2.4Dem 5,137Rep 4,896Other 119Total 10,152FlorenceR+8.0Dem 27,706Rep 32,615Other 819Total 61,140JasperR+9.6Dem 8,144Rep 9,900Other 183Total 18,227DillonR+10.8Dem 5,241Rep 6,526Other 94Total 11,861ClarendonR+12.3Dem 7,064Rep 9,065Other 191Total 16,320DarlingtonR+13.3Dem 12,977Rep 17,017Other 337Total 30,331CalhounR+14.3Dem 3,339Rep 4,474Other 101Total 7,914BeaufortR+14.5Dem 44,002Rep 59,123Other 1,278Total 104,403DorchesterR+14.6Dem 32,489Rep 43,839Other 1,436Total 77,764BarnwellR+15.5Dem 4,082Rep 5,605Other 116Total 9,803BerkeleyR+16.3Dem 46,416Rep 64,777Other 1,641Total 112,834McCormickR+17.1Dem 2,513Rep 3,565Other 75Total 6,153ChesterR+17.2Dem 6,353Rep 9,030Other 173Total 15,556ColletonR+18.2Dem 7,376Rep 10,696Other 204Total 18,276YorkR+19.1Dem 59,600Rep 88,239Other 2,220Total 150,059GeorgetownR+19.5Dem 14,965Rep 22,326Other 463Total 37,754GreenvilleR+22.2Dem 100,074Rep 158,541Other 4,701Total 263,316LancasterR+24.8Dem 20,146Rep 33,623Other 658Total 54,427AikenR+25.9Dem 31,298Rep 53,592Other 1,201Total 86,091ChesterfieldR+28.1Dem 6,520Rep 11,682Other 189Total 18,391KershawR+28.2Dem 11,826Rep 21,289Other 418Total 33,533GreenwoodR+29.0Dem 10,766Rep 19,715Other 407Total 30,888EdgefieldR+31.8Dem 4,659Rep 9,092Other 168Total 13,919UnionR+32.7Dem 4,084Rep 8,102Other 103Total 12,289LexingtonR+33.5Dem 47,815Rep 96,965Other 2,123Total 146,903SpartanburgR+33.6Dem 50,710Rep 103,032Other 1,855Total 155,597NewberryR+34.3Dem 5,841Rep 12,067Other 221Total 18,129HorryR+38.5Dem 62,325Rep 141,719Other 1,910Total 205,954LaurensR+40.8Dem 8,769Rep 21,110Other 334Total 30,213AbbevilleR+42.4Dem 3,399Rep 8,509Other 140Total 12,048SaludaR+44.4Dem 2,454Rep 6,452Other 108Total 9,014AndersonR+47.4Dem 25,281Rep 71,828Other 1,187Total 98,296CherokeeR+51.4Dem 5,939Rep 18,697Other 203Total 24,839OconeeR+51.5Dem 9,987Rep 31,772Other 505Total 42,264PickensR+52.7Dem 13,891Rep 45,728Other 832Total 60,451

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

English12.1%9.5%

German9.4%12.5%

Irish9.1%9.4%

American8.2%5.3%

Italian3.4%4.8%

Scottish2.1%1.3%

Scotch-Irish1.4%—

French1.1%1.6%

African American†23.4%9.9%

African0.6%0.5%

Jamaican0.2%0.4%

Mexican3.4%11.3%

Puerto Rican1.0%1.8%

Colombian0.4%0.4%

Honduran0.4%0.3%

Cuban0.3%0.7%

Guatemalan0.3%0.5%

Asian Indian0.5%1.4%

Filipino0.3%0.9%

Chinese0.2%1.3%

Vietnamese0.2%0.6%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Median age	40.5	39.1
Age 18–24	9.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.9%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Median household income	$69,324	$84,427
Poverty rate	14.1%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	32.1%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Owner-occupied homes	71.9%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	28.1%	34.8%
Median home value	$259,000	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,180	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	13.3%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Mean commute	25.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	6.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	76.3%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.4%	3.2%
Works from home	11.5%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	8.4%	22.3%
Spanish	5.2%	13.6%

Religious landscape

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Catholic	8.0%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	28.6%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	47.5%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	7.4%	5.2%
Black Protestant	5.8%	2.2%

Origins and service

Measure	South Carolina	United States
Foreign-born residents	5.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	2.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	3.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	8.3%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.475	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 64.0% of 4,009,584 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic40.4%1,028,452TrumpRepublican58.2%1,483,747OliverLibertarian0.5%12,669

R+17.9

Lead: 455,295
Total: 2,548,140
vs nation: R+16.4
Turnout: 64.0%

BidenDemocratic43.4%1,091,541TrumpRepublican55.1%1,385,103JorgensenLibertarian1.1%27,916

R+11.7

Lead: 293,562
Total: 2,513,329
vs nation: R+16.1
Turnout: 65.6%

ClintonDemocratic40.7%855,373TrumpRepublican54.9%1,155,389JohnsonLibertarian2.3%49,204

R+14.3

Lead: 300,016
Total: 2,103,027
vs nation: R+16.4
Turnout: 58.7%

ObamaDemocratic44.1%865,941RomneyRepublican54.6%1,071,645JohnsonLibertarian0.8%16,321

R+10.5

Lead: 205,704
Total: 1,964,118
vs nation: R+14.3
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic44.9%862,449MccainRepublican53.9%1,034,896BarrLibertarian0.4%7,283

R+9.0

Lead: 172,447
Total: 1,920,969
vs nation: R+16.2
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic40.9%661,699BushRepublican58.0%937,974NaderIndependence0.3%5,520

R+17.1

Lead: 276,275
Total: 1,617,730
vs nation: R+14.6
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic40.9%566,039BushRepublican56.8%786,426NaderUnited Citizens1.5%20,279

R+15.9

Lead: 220,387
Total: 1,383,777
vs nation: R+16.4
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic43.9%504,051DoleRepublican49.9%573,458PerotPatriot Party3.2%36,913

R+6.0

Lead: 69,407
Total: 1,149,457
vs nation: R+14.6
Turnout: —

South Carolina voted Republican by 17.9 points in 2024, Donald Trump taking 1,483,747 votes to Kamala Harris’s 1,028,452. The result rests on a vote that divides sharply by place and by race. Black residents make up 24.6 percent of the population, among the largest shares of any state, and the Democratic vote concentrates where that share is highest — the rural counties of the Lowcountry and the Pee Dee strung along Interstate 95, the Midlands seat of Columbia, and the coast at Charleston. Harris carried 12 of the state’s 46 counties; the other 34 went Republican.

Those 12 counties trace the old plantation belt. Allendale County, the bluest in the state, voted Democratic by 44.7 points; Orangeburg ran D+24.6, Williamsburg D+21.7, and the Midlands seat of Richland County, which holds Columbia and the University of South Carolina, went D+34.6. Charleston County, the coastal city and its suburbs, was narrower at D+5.7. Against that sits the Upstate around Greenville and Spartanburg: Pickens County, the reddest in the state, voted Republican by 52.7 points, and Greenville County alone delivered 158,541 Republican votes, the largest single-county total in South Carolina.

The state shifted further Republican in 2024. The 17.9-point margin widened from R+11.7 in 2020, a 6.2-point move toward Trump that showed across the Upstate and the coast. Spartanburg County went from R+27.3 in 2020 to R+33.6, and Horry County, on the Grand Strand around Myrtle Beach, from R+33.2 to R+38.5. South Carolina is among the most evangelical states in the country, ranking 7th of 50 in adherents, and ranks 42nd in both median household income and poverty. In 2026 it will choose a new governor — Henry McMaster is term-limited — with Republican Alan Wilson facing Democrat Jermaine Johnson, and Senator Lindsey Graham seeking a fifth term.

current representation

Current officeholders

RHenry McMasterGovernor

RPamela EvetteLieutenant Governor

RMark HammondSecretary of State

RAlan WilsonAttorney General

RCurtis LoftisTreasurer

DBrian GainesComptroller General

REllen WeaverSuperintendent of Education

RHugh WeathersCommissioner of Agriculture

RTim ScottU.S. Senate+0.63

RLindsey GrahamU.S. Senate+0.37

U.S. House7 seats · D 1 · R 6

RSC-01Nancy Mace

RSC-02Joe Wilson

RSC-03Sheri Biggs

RSC-04William Timmons

RSC-05Ralph Norman

DSC-06Jim Clyburn

RSC-07Russell Fry

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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