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2024StatewideR+17.9

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County46 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Allendale2,165813D+44.73,023 Richland121,11058,019D+34.6182,411 Orangeburg22,83213,750D+24.636,970 Williamsburg8,6345,524D+21.714,330 Lee4,5053,078D+17.78,076 Bamberg3,2452,376D+15.35,694 Fairfield6,2774,792D+13.211,215 Marion7,3165,906D+10.513,388 Hampton4,3283,801D+6.48,233 Charleston111,42799,265D+5.7214,521 Sumter23,42521,215D+4.945,170 Marlboro5,1374,896D+2.410,152 Florence27,70632,615R+8.061,140 Jasper8,1449,900R+9.618,227 Dillon5,2416,526R+10.811,861 Clarendon7,0649,065R+12.316,320 Darlington12,97717,017R+13.330,331 Calhoun3,3394,474R+14.37,914 Beaufort44,00259,123R+14.5104,403 Dorchester32,48943,839R+14.677,764 Barnwell4,0825,605R+15.59,803 Berkeley46,41664,777R+16.3112,834 McCormick2,5133,565R+17.16,153 Chester6,3539,030R+17.215,556 Colleton7,37610,696R+18.218,276 York59,60088,239R+19.1150,059 Georgetown14,96522,326R+19.537,754 Greenville100,074158,541R+22.2263,316 Lancaster20,14633,623R+24.854,427 Aiken31,29853,592R+25.986,091 Chesterfield6,52011,682R+28.118,391 Kershaw11,82621,289R+28.233,533 Greenwood10,76619,715R+29.030,888 Edgefield4,6599,092R+31.813,919 Union4,0848,102R+32.712,289 Lexington47,81596,965R+33.5146,903 Spartanburg50,710103,032R+33.6155,597 Newberry5,84112,067R+34.318,129 Horry62,325141,719R+38.5205,954 Laurens8,76921,110R+40.830,213 Abbeville3,3998,509R+42.412,048 Saluda2,4546,452R+44.49,014 Anderson25,28171,828R+47.498,296 Cherokee5,93918,697R+51.424,839 Oconee9,98731,772R+51.542,264 Pickens13,89145,728R+52.760,451

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.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004R+17.1

2008R+9.0

2012R+10.5

2016R+14.3

2020R+11.7

2024R+17.9

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 63.6% of 4,009,584 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	1,028,452	1,483,747	35,941	2,548,140	4,009,584	63.6%
2020	1,091,541	1,385,103	36,685	2,513,329	3,849,680	65.3%
2016	855,373	1,155,389	92,265	2,103,027	3,620,829	58.1%
2012	865,941	1,071,645	26,532	1,964,118	3,417,898	57.5%
2008	862,449	1,034,896	23,624	1,920,969	3,241,214	59.3%
2004	661,699	937,974	18,057	1,617,730	3,064,530^†	52.8%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

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%

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%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

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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Year

Democrat

Republican

Others

Total

CVAP

Turnout

2024

1,028,452

1,483,747

35,941

2,548,140

4,009,584

63.6%

2020

1,091,541

1,385,103

36,685

2,513,329

3,849,680

65.3%

2016

855,373

1,155,389

92,265

2,103,027

3,620,829

58.1%

2012

865,941

1,071,645

26,532

1,964,118

3,417,898

57.5%

2008

862,449

1,034,896

23,624

1,920,969

3,241,214

59.3%

2004

661,699

937,974

18,057

1,617,730

3,064,530^†

52.8%

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%

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%

Measure

South Carolina

United States

Speaks a non-English language at home

8.4%

22.3%

Spanish

5.2%

13.6%

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%

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

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

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