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The 2016 United States presidential election was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. South Carolina voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
Out of 3.12 million registered voters, 2.10 million voted, a turnout of 67.86%. [1] Trump continued the Republican tradition in South Carolina, carrying the state with 54.9% of the vote. Clinton received 40.7% of the vote, underperforming Barack Obama's 2012 performance by about 4%. [2] Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Charleston County since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.
On February 20 and 27, 2016, in the presidential primaries, South Carolina voters expressed their preferences for the Republican and Democratic parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party could only vote in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated could choose any one primary in which to vote.
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South Carolina results by county Hillary Clinton |
The 59 delegates for the Democratic National Convention from South Carolina are allocated in this way. There are 53 pledged delegates and 6 unpledged delegates. For the pledged delegates, each district gets 5 delegates that are allocated proportionally. There are then 18 at-large delegates awarded proportionally. [3]
South Carolina Democratic primary, February 27, 2016 | |||||
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Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
Hillary Clinton | 272,379 | 73.44% | 39 | 5 | 44 |
Bernie Sanders | 96,498 | 26.02% | 14 | 0 | 14 |
Willie Wilson | 1,314 | 0.35% | |||
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 713 | 0.19% | |||
Uncommitted | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total votes | 370,904 | 100% | 53 | 6 | 59 |
Sources: The Green Papers , South Carolina State Election Commission |
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South Carolina results by county Donald Trump Marco Rubio |
Delegates from South Carolina to the Republican National Convention are awarded in this way. 29 delegates are awarded to the candidate that wins the plurality of the vote in the South Carolina primary. The remaining 21 delegates are allocated by giving the winner of each of the seven congressional districts 3 delegates. [4]
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
Donald Trump | 240,882 | 32.51% | 50 | 0 | 50 |
Marco Rubio | 166,565 | 22.48% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ted Cruz | 165,417 | 22.33% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jeb Bush | 58,056 | 7.84% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Kasich | 56,410 | 7.61% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ben Carson | 53,551 | 7.23% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris Christie (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Rand Paul (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
George Pataki (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total: | 740,881 | 100.00% | 50 | 0 | 50 |
Source: The Green Papers |
On April 30, the Green Party of South Carolina held its state convention. The public was welcome, but only members and delegates were eligible to vote. [5]
On April 30, it was announced that William Kreml had won the primary.
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | National delegates |
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William Kreml | - | - | 5 |
Jill Stein | - | - | 3 |
Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza Curry | - | - | - |
Darryl Cherney | - | - | - |
Kent Mesplay | - | - | - |
Total | - | 100.00% | 8 |
South Carolina has generally been reckoned to be a solidly red state ever since it voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964. From 1964 on, the Republican ticket has carried the Palmetto State in every election apart from 1976, when the state voted for Jimmy Carter, from neighboring Georgia. The state even spurned Southern Democrat Bill Clinton in both his elections, in each of which he carried several other Southern states. The state has not had a Democratic Senator since Ernest Hollings retired in 2005, and it has had a Republican majority in its Congressional delegation since the so-called "Republican Revolution" of 1994. Four years prior to the 2016 election, in 2012, Republican Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama by 10.5%.
However, in 2016 some commentators suggested that South Carolina might become a battleground state due to polling suggesting Republican dissatisfaction with Trump, as well as the growing effects of in-migration from other states (as in formerly solidly red Virginia and North Carolina). [6] A poll released on August 10 by Public Policy Polling had Trump leading Clinton by a margin of only 2 points, [6] and an internal poll commissioned for the South Carolina Democratic Party had the race tied. [7] This led Larry Sabato's political prediction website Sabato's Crystal Ball to move the rating of the South Carolina contest from "Safe Republican" to "Likely Republican" on August 18. [8] In the end, however, Trump carried the state by a comfortable 14.3% margin.
Source | Ranking | As of |
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Los Angeles Times [9] | Safe R | November 6, 2016 |
CNN [10] | Safe R | November 4, 2016 |
Cook Political Report [11] | Likely R | November 7, 2016 |
Electoral-vote.com [12] | Lean R | November 8, 2016 |
Rothenberg Political Report [13] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [14] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
RealClearPolitics [15] | Lean R | November 8, 2016 |
NBC [16] | Lean R | November 7, 2016 |
^Highest rating given
Republican Donald Trump won every pre-election poll, but by varying margins. The last pre-election poll showed Donald Trump leading Clinton 47% to 36%. The average of all polls showed Trump leading 46.2% to 38%. [17]
Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
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Republican | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 1,155,389 | 54.94% | 9 | |
Democratic | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 855,373 | 40.67% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | 49,204 | 2.34% | 0 | |
Independence | Evan McMullin | Nathan Johnson | 21,016 | 1.00% | 0 | |
Green | Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | 13,034 | 0.62% | 0 | |
Constitution | Darrell Castle | Scott Bradley | 5,765 | 0.27% | 0 | |
American (South Carolina) [18] | Peter Skewes | Michael Lacy | 3,246 | 0.15% | 0 | |
Totals | 2,103,027 | 100.00% | 9 | |||
Trump won 6 of 7 congressional districts.
District | Trump | Clinton | Representative |
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1st | 53% | 41% | Mark Sanford |
2nd | 57% | 38% | Joe Wilson |
3rd | 67% | 29% | Jeff Duncan |
4th | 60% | 34% | Trey Gowdy |
5th | 57% | 39% | Mick Mulvaney |
6th | 30% | 67% | Jim Clyburn |
7th | 58% | 39% | Tom Rice |
County | Donald Trump Republican | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total | ||||
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Abbeville | 6,763 | 62.77% | 3,741 | 34.72% | 271 | 2.51% | 3,022 | 28.05% | 10,775 |
Aiken | 46,025 | 61.49% | 25,455 | 34.01% | 3,371 | 4.50% | 20,570 | 27.48% | 74,851 |
Allendale | 789 | 21.97% | 2,735 | 76.14% | 68 | 1.89% | -1,946 | -54.17% | 3,592 |
Anderson | 56,232 | 69.87% | 21,097 | 26.21% | 3,154 | 3.92% | 35,135 | 43.66% | 80,483 |
Bamberg | 2,204 | 35.47% | 3,898 | 62.73% | 112 | 1.80% | -1,694 | -27.76% | 6,214 |
Barnwell | 4,889 | 51.54% | 4,400 | 46.39% | 196 | 2.07% | 489 | 5.15% | 9,485 |
Beaufort | 42,922 | 54.66% | 32,138 | 40.93% | 3,464 | 4.41% | 10,784 | 13.73% | 78,524 |
Berkeley | 44,587 | 56.07% | 30,705 | 38.61% | 4,225 | 5.32% | 13,882 | 17.46% | 79,517 |
Calhoun | 3,787 | 50.17% | 3,573 | 47.33% | 189 | 2.50% | 214 | 2.84% | 7,549 |
Charleston | 75,443 | 42.78% | 89,299 | 50.64% | 11,603 | 6.58% | -13,856 | -7.86% | 176,345 |
Cherokee | 15,167 | 69.70% | 6,092 | 28.00% | 500 | 2.30% | 9,075 | 41.70% | 21,759 |
Chester | 7,265 | 51.19% | 6,579 | 46.36% | 348 | 2.45% | 686 | 4.83% | 14,192 |
Chesterfield | 9,312 | 56.16% | 6,858 | 41.36% | 411 | 2.48% | 2,454 | 14.80% | 16,581 |
Clarendon | 7,386 | 47.98% | 7,732 | 50.22% | 277 | 1.80% | -346 | -2.24% | 15,395 |
Colleton | 9,091 | 52.70% | 7,627 | 44.21% | 533 | 3.09% | 1,464 | 8.49% | 17,251 |
Darlington | 14,989 | 50.51% | 13,888 | 46.80% | 797 | 2.69% | 1,101 | 3.71% | 29,674 |
Dillon | 5,637 | 48.19% | 5,834 | 49.87% | 227 | 1.94% | -197 | -1.68% | 11,698 |
Dorchester | 34,987 | 55.92% | 24,055 | 38.45% | 3,525 | 5.63% | 10,932 | 17.47% | 62,567 |
Edgefield | 6,842 | 58.76% | 4,491 | 38.57% | 311 | 2.67% | 2,351 | 20.19% | 11,644 |
Fairfield | 4,027 | 35.74% | 6,945 | 61.64% | 295 | 2.62% | -2,918 | -25.90% | 11,267 |
Florence | 29,573 | 51.05% | 26,710 | 46.11% | 1,648 | 2.84% | 2,863 | 4.94% | 57,931 |
Georgetown | 17,389 | 54.93% | 13,310 | 42.04% | 958 | 3.03% | 4,079 | 12.89% | 31,657 |
Greenville | 127,832 | 59.41% | 74,483 | 34.62% | 12,850 | 5.97% | 53,349 | 24.79% | 215,165 |
Greenwood | 16,961 | 58.97% | 10,711 | 37.24% | 1,091 | 3.69% | 6,250 | 22.63% | 28,763 |
Hampton | 3,488 | 39.61% | 5,170 | 58.71% | 148 | 1.68% | -1,682 | -19.10% | 8,806 |
Horry | 89,288 | 67.17% | 39,410 | 29.65% | 4,222 | 3.18% | 49,878 | 37.52% | 132,920 |
Jasper | 5,187 | 45.39% | 5,956 | 52.12% | 284 | 2.49% | -769 | -6.73% | 11,427 |
Kershaw | 17,542 | 60.50% | 10,330 | 35.63% | 1,123 | 3.87% | 7,212 | 24.87% | 28,995 |
Lancaster | 23,719 | 60.91% | 13,812 | 35.47% | 1,407 | 3.62% | 9,907 | 25.44% | 38,938 |
Laurens | 16,816 | 63.30% | 8,889 | 33.46% | 861 | 3.24% | 7,927 | 29.84% | 26,566 |
Lee | 2,803 | 34.37% | 5,199 | 63.74% | 154 | 1.89% | -2,396 | -29.37% | 8,156 |
Lexington | 80,026 | 65.55% | 35,230 | 28.86% | 6,837 | 5.59% | 44,796 | 36.69% | 122,093 |
Marion | 5,444 | 38.13% | 8,569 | 60.02% | 263 | 1.85% | -3,125 | -21.88% | 14,276 |
Marlboro | 4,267 | 41.07% | 5,954 | 57.31% | 168 | 1.62% | -1,687 | -16.24% | 10,389 |
McCormick | 2,652 | 50.84% | 2,479 | 47.53% | 85 | 1.63% | 173 | 3.31% | 5,216 |
Newberry | 10,017 | 59.60% | 6,217 | 36.99% | 573 | 3.41% | 3,800 | 22.61% | 16,807 |
Oconee | 24,178 | 71.88% | 7,998 | 23.78% | 1,459 | 4.34% | 16,180 | 48.10% | 33,635 |
Orangeburg | 11,931 | 30.66% | 26,318 | 67.64% | 661 | 1.70% | -14,387 | -36.98% | 38,910 |
Pickens | 36,236 | 73.88% | 10,354 | 21.11% | 2,459 | 5.01% | 25,882 | 52.77% | 49,049 |
Richland | 52,469 | 31.10% | 108,000 | 64.01% | 8,253 | 4.89% | -55,531 | -32.91% | 168,722 |
Saluda | 5,526 | 64.53% | 2,813 | 32.85% | 225 | 2.62% | 2,713 | 31.68% | 8,564 |
Spartanburg | 76,277 | 62.99% | 39,997 | 33.03% | 4,816 | 3.98% | 36,280 | 29.96% | 121,090 |
Sumter | 18,745 | 42.52% | 24,047 | 54.55% | 1,294 | 2.93% | -5,302 | -12.03% | 44,086 |
Union | 7,061 | 58.39% | 4,729 | 39.11% | 302 | 2.50% | 2,332 | 19.28% | 12,092 |
Williamsburg | 4,864 | 32.31% | 9,953 | 66.12% | 237 | 1.57% | -5,089 | -33.81% | 15,054 |
York | 66,754 | 58.37% | 41,593 | 36.37% | 1,533 | 1.53% | 25,161 | 22.00% | 114,357 |
Totals | 1,155,389 | 54.94% | 855,373 | 40.67% | 92,265 | 4.39% | 300,016 | 14.27% | 2,103,027 |
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