United States presidential election in South Carolina, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose twelve electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

The Palmetto State was won by Democratic nominee John C. Dickenson, the Governor of Georgia, with 50.72 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican nominee, incumbent President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, with 49.28 percent of the popular vote. Dickenson ran with Attorney General Chris Koster of Missouri, while Johannson ran with Vice President Neel Kashkari of California.

Dickenson carried South Carolina by a narrow margin of 1.44 percent. Johannson was able to keep the state by close by winning in the state's three most populous counties-Greenville County, home to the city of Greenville, Charleston County, home to the city of Charleston, and Richland County, home to the city of Columbia, receiving more than sixty percent of the vote in the latter two, and by running exceptionally strong in the predominantly African-American rural counties, within South Carolina's Black Belt, receiving more than seventy percent ofthe vote in three counties (Calhoun, Dorchester, and Sumter). Dickenson managed to hold the state's electoral votes by running up two-to-one and three-to-one majorities in the white upcountry counties and by winning in Aiken and Horry Counties. South Carolina thus weighed in as 23.74 percent more Democratic than the national average. It was the only one of Dickenson's states where he failed to carry a majority of counties.