Myrtle Beach-Florence · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
95.9%
25,890 votes · D+92.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 94.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.8%
72,954 votes · R+36.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 62.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
153,357votes
40.6% of the vote · R+17.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 144,184 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
246,093votes
62.4% of the vote · R+25.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 220,884 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
+114.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+89.6 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +96.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+24.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.9 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +22.3 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Myrtle Beach-Florence · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Myrtle Beach-Florence, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama6Clinton298,062 votes · 8 of 8 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton864,454 votes · 8 of 8 countiesprimary
Biden879,236 votes · 8 of 8 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2012D+57.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+25.9
Myrtle Beach-Florence registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 83-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Myrtle Beach-Florence
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
89,737
65,731
11,188
12,796
22
2012 (partial)
98,511
68,555
12,233
17,584
139
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+14,231 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +139,260 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Myrtle Beach-Florence in Myrtle Beach-Florence: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,331
2012
+3,291
2013
+4,780
2014
+6,654
2015
+8,102
2016
+8,766
2017
+8,956
2018
+9,157
2019
+7,784
2021
+14,845
2022
+17,937
2023
+16,321
2024
+15,105
2025
+14,231
The Myrtle Beach-Florence market blends a fast-growing retirement and tourism corridor along the Grand Strand with the historically agricultural Pee Dee interior, producing a media audience whose partisan lean and demographics shift sharply between zip codes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 92.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 36.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 8.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.9 points.
A population of 815,684, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,791 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albany, GA and Montgomery-Selma.
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How did Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina voted Republican by 25.9 points (R+25.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 394,222 votes cast, 144,184 went Democratic and 246,093 went Republican.
When did Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina?
Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina has a population of 815,684 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina?
Median household income in Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina is $56,791 — below the national median of $80,734. The South Carolina state median is $69,324.
What is the political history of Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
