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Election 2020 Results

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2020 presidential election in South Carolina

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Joe Biden (Democrat) in South Carolina in 2020, 55.1% to 43.4%, a margin of 11.7 points and 293,562 votes.

South Carolina voted 16.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2016, when Donald Trump also won.

Republicans led in 33 of the 46 counties and Democrats in 13. The largest, Greenville, cast 258,156 votes and went to the Republican by 18.2 points. The closest was Jasper, where 107 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Donald Trump won Republican 1,385,103 55.1%
Joe Biden Democratic 1,091,541 43.4%
All other candidates 36,685 1.5%
Total2,513,329

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Greenville 103,028 39.9% 150,025 58.1% 5,103 258,156 R+18.2
Charleston 121,392 55.5% 93,173 42.6% 4,071 218,636 D+12.9
Richland 132,558 68.4% 58,324 30.1% 2,940 193,822 D+38.3
Horry 59,190 32.9% 118,836 66.1% 1,743 179,769 R+33.2
Spartanburg 52,912 35.6% 93,518 62.9% 2,169 148,599 R+27.3
Lexington 49,275 34.1% 92,774 64.2% 2,449 144,498 R+30.1
York 58,988 41.0% 82,698 57.4% 2,313 143,999 R+16.5
Berkeley 45,407 43.3% 57,593 54.9% 1,845 104,845 R+11.6
Beaufort 43,419 44.4% 53,194 54.4% 1,221 97,834 R+10.0
Anderson 27,174 28.3% 67,572 70.3% 1,359 96,105 R+42.0
Aiken 32,274 37.9% 51,589 60.6% 1,320 85,183 R+22.7
Dorchester 33,736 43.7% 41,853 54.3% 1,537 77,126 R+10.5
Florence 31,165 48.3% 32,630 50.6% 743 64,538 R+2.3
Pickens 13,641 23.7% 42,907 74.6% 993 57,541 R+50.9
Lancaster 18,952 38.0% 30,341 60.8% 619 49,912 R+22.8
Sumter 27,380 56.0% 21,003 42.9% 540 48,923 D+13.0
Orangeburg 27,294 66.2% 13,602 33.0% 307 41,203 D+33.2
Oconee 10,412 25.6% 29,683 73.0% 556 40,651 R+47.4
Georgetown 15,814 43.2% 20,471 55.9% 358 36,643 R+12.7
Kershaw 12,700 37.8% 20,471 60.9% 459 33,630 R+23.1
Darlington 15,205 47.0% 16,815 51.9% 364 32,384 R+5.0
Greenwood 12,151 37.9% 19,438 60.7% 430 32,019 R+22.8
Laurens 10,159 33.3% 20,004 65.6% 325 30,488 R+32.3
Cherokee 6,987 27.6% 18,048 71.4% 244 25,279 R+43.8
Colleton 8,600 44.6% 10,430 54.1% 241 19,271 R+9.5
Chesterfield 7,431 39.4% 11,297 59.8% 148 18,876 R+20.5
Newberry 6,958 37.3% 11,444 61.4% 231 18,633 R+24.1
Clarendon 8,251 49.3% 8,360 50.0% 122 16,733 R+0.7
Williamsburg 10,290 64.4% 5,532 34.6% 164 15,986 D+29.8
Chester 6,948 44.1% 8,667 55.0% 156 15,771 R+10.9
Marion 8,870 60.3% 5,714 38.9% 121 14,705 D+21.5
Jasper 7,186 49.9% 7,079 49.2% 131 14,396 D+0.7
Union 4,948 37.2% 8,217 61.8% 139 13,304 R+24.6
Edgefield 4,951 37.2% 8,182 61.5% 166 13,299 R+24.3
Dillon 6,437 49.1% 6,582 50.2% 83 13,102 R+1.1
Abbeville 4,097 33.0% 8,211 66.1% 116 12,424 R+33.1
Fairfield 7,382 60.8% 4,625 38.1% 129 12,136 D+22.7
Marlboro 6,291 55.0% 5,045 44.1% 111 11,447 D+10.9
Barnwell 4,720 45.7% 5,493 53.2% 109 10,322 R+7.5
Saluda 3,002 32.1% 6,240 66.8% 102 9,344 R+34.7
Hampton 5,321 57.2% 3,905 42.0% 76 9,302 D+15.2
Lee 5,328 63.2% 3,007 35.7% 94 8,429 D+27.5
Calhoun 3,906 47.1% 4,305 51.9% 81 8,292 R+4.8
Bamberg 4,010 61.9% 2,417 37.3% 54 6,481 D+24.6
McCormick 2,686 47.2% 2,958 51.9% 51 5,695 R+4.8
Allendale 2,719 75.7% 835 23.2% 40 3,594 D+52.4

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

South Carolina in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+17.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+11.7
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+14.3
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.5
2008 John McCain (R) R+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+17.1
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+16.0
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.8
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+8.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+23.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+1.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+13.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+42.7
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.5
1964 Barry Goldwater (R) R+17.8
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.5
1956 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+20.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+1.4
1948 Strom Thurmond (other)
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+83.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+91.3
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+97.1
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+96.1
1928 Al Smith (D) D+82.9
1924 John W. Davis (D) D+94.4
1920 James M. Cox (D) D+92.1
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.3
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+87.9
1904 Alton B. Parker (D) D+90.7
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+86.1
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.8
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+58.6
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+65.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+51.8
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+31.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+0.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+52.0
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+15.9