South Carolina Election Results
South Carolina election results updated hourly by county, candidate and party.
— -- Voters in the state of South Carolina are heading to the polls on Election Day 2016.
There are nine electoral votes at stake in South Carolina in the presidential race. The Palmetto State is notable for its large proportion of Christian evangelical voters on the Republican side and African American voters on the Democratic side.
Voting History in the Past Five Presidential Elections:
Other Notable Races
The South's first black senator since Reconstruction, Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, is running for his first full term. He was appointed to the seat in 2013 following the resignation of Sen. Jim DeMint, then won election to the final two years of that term. Democrat Thomas Dixon, a community activist and pastor, is challenging him. Then there's Democrat Dimitri Cherny, whose platform includes colonizing the moon and Mars in case the Earth becomes uninhabitable. He's challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, the ex-governor whom voters sent back to Congress in 2013. -The Associated Press
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