United States presidential election in South Carolina, 2016



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 nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

South Carolina was by incumbent President William C. Rutherford (D-Texas), with 56.17% of the popular vote, against Senator Thomas P. Leach (R-Arizona), with 43.13% of the popular vote. Rutherford won South Carolina by a margin of 13.04 percent above Leach. Rutherford became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the state since Al Gore in 2004.

Leach managed to carry just three of South Carolina's counties, and one of its seven congressional districts. This was also the first time since 1976 that a Democrat won South Carolina by a double-digit margin, and the first time since that election that Spartanburg County, Florence County, Pickens County, and Newberry County voted Democratic.