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Election 2024 Results

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2024 presidential election in South Carolina

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Kamala Harris (Democrat) in South Carolina in 2024, 58.2% to 40.4%, a margin of 17.9 points and 455,295 votes.

South Carolina voted 16.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+1.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2020, when Donald Trump also won.

Republicans led in 34 of the 46 counties and Democrats in 12. The largest, Greenville, cast 263,316 votes and went to the Republican by 22.2 points. The closest was Marlboro, where 241 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 1,483,747 58.2%
Kamala Harris Democratic 1,028,452 40.4%
All other candidates 35,941 1.4%
Total2,548,140

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Greenville 100,074 38.0% 158,541 60.2% 4,701 263,316 R+22.2
Charleston 111,427 51.9% 99,265 46.3% 3,829 214,521 D+5.7
Horry 62,325 30.3% 141,719 68.8% 1,910 205,954 R+38.5
Richland 121,110 66.4% 58,019 31.8% 3,282 182,411 D+34.6
Spartanburg 50,710 32.6% 103,032 66.2% 1,855 155,597 R+33.6
York 59,600 39.7% 88,239 58.8% 2,220 150,059 R+19.1
Lexington 47,815 32.5% 96,965 66.0% 2,123 146,903 R+33.5
Berkeley 46,416 41.1% 64,777 57.4% 1,641 112,834 R+16.3
Beaufort 44,002 42.1% 59,123 56.6% 1,278 104,403 R+14.5
Anderson 25,281 25.7% 71,828 73.1% 1,187 98,296 R+47.4
Aiken 31,298 36.4% 53,592 62.3% 1,201 86,091 R+25.9
Dorchester 32,489 41.8% 43,839 56.4% 1,436 77,764 R+14.6
Florence 27,706 45.3% 32,615 53.3% 819 61,140 R+8.0
Pickens 13,891 23.0% 45,728 75.6% 832 60,451 R+52.7
Lancaster 20,146 37.0% 33,623 61.8% 658 54,427 R+24.8
Sumter 23,425 51.9% 21,215 47.0% 530 45,170 D+4.9
Oconee 9,987 23.6% 31,772 75.2% 505 42,264 R+51.5
Georgetown 14,965 39.6% 22,326 59.1% 463 37,754 R+19.5
Orangeburg 22,832 61.8% 13,750 37.2% 388 36,970 D+24.6
Kershaw 11,826 35.3% 21,289 63.5% 418 33,533 R+28.2
Greenwood 10,766 34.9% 19,715 63.8% 407 30,888 R+29.0
Darlington 12,977 42.8% 17,017 56.1% 337 30,331 R+13.3
Laurens 8,769 29.0% 21,110 69.9% 334 30,213 R+40.8
Cherokee 5,939 23.9% 18,697 75.3% 203 24,839 R+51.4
Chesterfield 6,520 35.5% 11,682 63.5% 189 18,391 R+28.1
Colleton 7,376 40.4% 10,696 58.5% 204 18,276 R+18.2
Jasper 8,144 44.7% 9,900 54.3% 183 18,227 R+9.6
Newberry 5,841 32.2% 12,067 66.6% 221 18,129 R+34.3
Clarendon 7,064 43.3% 9,065 55.5% 191 16,320 R+12.3
Chester 6,353 40.8% 9,030 58.0% 173 15,556 R+17.2
Williamsburg 8,634 60.3% 5,524 38.5% 172 14,330 D+21.7
Edgefield 4,659 33.5% 9,092 65.3% 168 13,919 R+31.8
Marion 7,316 54.6% 5,906 44.1% 166 13,388 D+10.5
Union 4,084 33.2% 8,102 65.9% 103 12,289 R+32.7
Abbeville 3,399 28.2% 8,509 70.6% 140 12,048 R+42.4
Dillon 5,241 44.2% 6,526 55.0% 94 11,861 R+10.8
Fairfield 6,277 56.0% 4,792 42.7% 146 11,215 D+13.2
Marlboro 5,137 50.6% 4,896 48.2% 119 10,152 D+2.4
Barnwell 4,082 41.6% 5,605 57.2% 116 9,803 R+15.5
Saluda 2,454 27.2% 6,452 71.6% 108 9,014 R+44.4
Hampton 4,328 52.6% 3,801 46.2% 104 8,233 D+6.4
Lee 4,505 55.8% 3,078 38.1% 493 8,076 D+17.7
Calhoun 3,339 42.2% 4,474 56.5% 101 7,914 R+14.3
McCormick 2,513 40.8% 3,565 57.9% 75 6,153 R+17.1
Bamberg 3,245 57.0% 2,376 41.7% 73 5,694 D+15.3
Allendale 2,165 71.6% 813 26.9% 45 3,023 D+44.7

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