2020 South Carolina House of Representatives election

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2020 South Carolina House of Representatives election

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All 124 seats in the South Carolina House of Representatives
62 seats needed for a majority
Turnout63.16% Increase 8.13 pp
  Majority party Minority party
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SCDP
Leader Jay Lucas J. Todd Rutherford
Party Republican Democratic
Leader since December 2, 2014 January 8, 2013
Leader's seat 121st 101st
Last election 80, 58.48% 44, 38.53%
Seats won 81 43
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1
Popular vote 1,402,989 779,644
Percentage 62.62% 34.80%
Swing Increase 4.14% Decrease 3.73%

Speaker before election

Jay Lucas
Republican

Elected Speaker

Jay Lucas
Republican

The 2020 South Carolina House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. South Carolina voters have elected state representatives in all 123 of the state house's districts.[1]

Primary elections were held beforehand.[2]

Predictions[]

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[3] Safe R October 21, 2020

Results[]

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Party Votes Seats
No. % No. +/− %
South Carolina Republican Party 1,402,989 62.62 81 +1 65.32
South Carolina Democratic Party 779,644 34.80 43 -1 33.87
Write-in 28,855 1.29 0 0 0.00
Libertarian Party of South Carolina 17,443 0.78 0 0 0.00
American Party of South Carolina 7,150 0.32 0 0 0.00
1,805 0.08 0 0 0.00
Labor Party 1,650 0.07 0 0 0.00
Independent 599 0.03 0 0 0.00
Green Party 256 0.01 0 0 0.00
Total 2,240,391 100.00 124 ±0 100.00
Registered voters 3,547,181 100.00
Turnout 2,240,391 63.16
Source: South Carolina Election Commission[4]
Popular vote
Republican
62.62%
Democratic
34.80%
Other
2.58%
House seats
Republican
65.32%
Democratic
33.87%


Margins of victory[]

District Winning Party Margin
3 Republican 31.28%
7 Republican 52.38%
8 Republican 61.98%
12 Democratic 18.2%
13 Republican 43.34%
15 Democratic 3.74%
18 Republican 47.71%
19 Republican 22.19%
20 Republican 35.15%
22 Republican 27.12%
25 Democratic 39.03%
26 Republican 19.91%
28 Republican 30.36%
33 Republican 77.5%
35 Republican 36.07%
41 Democratic 29.7%
43 Republican 36.52%
44 Republican 10.5%
45 Republican 27.74%
47 Republican 46.82%
48 Republican 21.84%
49 Democratic 27.94%
52 Republican 3.27%
54 Democratic 10.79%
56 Republican 30.97%
60 Republican 22.78%
63 Republican 29.46%
64 Democratic 8.7%
66 Democratic 39.97%
68 Republican 69.45%
71 Republican 32.19%
73 Democratic 56.4%
74 Democratic 65.84%
75 Republican 1.49%
77 Democratic 67.68%
78 Democratic 31.9%
79 Democratic 74.34%
80 Democratic 39.01%
83 Republican 40.31%
90 Democratic 0.37%
94 Republican 22.15%
95 Democratic 74.57%
97 Democratic 24.6%
99 Republican 28.65%
107 Republican 32.79%
109 Democratic 61.87%
110 Republican 21.42%
111 Democratic 58.37%
112 Republican 15.06%
114 Republican 8.87%
115 Democratic 1.59%
116 Democratic 1.74%
117 Democratic 5.34%
118 Democratic 23.5%
119 Democratic 39.7%
121 Democratic 26.66%
122 Democratic 13.97%
123 Republican 25.04%
124 Republican 26.59%

Uncontested elections are not included.

See also[]

  • 2020 South Carolina elections

References[]

  1. ^ "South Carolina House Elections & Candidates: Your Election Guide for the SC House of Representatives". www.sciway.net. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  2. ^ "Live: South Carolina State Primary Election Results 2020". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  3. ^ "October Overview: Handicapping the 2020 State Legislature Races". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  4. ^ "Election Night Reporting". www.enr-scvotes.org. Retrieved 2020-12-04.

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