Chesterfield County, South Carolina

2024 results by precinct

25 precincts · 18,391 votes cast

Trump · R+28

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−28.1%	6,520	11,682	18,391
2020	R	−20.5%	7,431	11,297	18,876
2016	R	−14.8%	6,858	9,312	16,581
2012	R	−3.2%	7,958	8,490	16,594
2008	R	−3.0%	7,842	8,325	16,359
2004	R	−3.7%	6,729	7,252	14,049
2000	R	−1.2%	6,111	6,266	12,526
1996	D	+16.1%	5,734	4,028	10,569
1992	D	+13.4%	5,691	4,183	11,212
1988	R	−3.1%	4,699	4,999	9,735
1984	R	−8.5%	4,593	5,451	10,067
1980	D	+29.2%	6,393	3,478	9,972
1976	D	+50.3%	7,687	2,537	10,244
1972	R	−27.9%	2,938	5,230	8,229
1968	D	+6.1%	3,180	2,564	10,068
1964	D	+30.8%	4,634	2,449	7,083
1960	D	+52.9%	4,450	1,372	5,822
1956	D	+55.4%	3,559	795	4,988
1952	D	+44.9%	4,668	1,776	6,444
1948	D	+35.3%	912	31	2,498
1944	D	+98.3%	3,222	15	3,262
1940	D	+98.6%	2,880	20	2,900
1936	D	+99.4%	3,192	0	3,210
1932	D	+98.9%	2,109	0	2,132
1928	D	+96.7%	1,362	23	1,385
1924	D	+98.5%	1,539	11	1,551
1920	D	+98.7%	2,066	14	2,080
1916	D	+99.5%	1,883	3	1,890
1912	D	+99.6%	1,178	0	1,183
1908	D	+93.8%	1,458	47	1,505
1904	D	+97.9%	1,158	12	1,170
1900	D	+91.8%	1,314	56	1,370
1896	D	+73.9%	1,465	220	1,685
1892	D	+58.5%	1,494	382	1,900
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

24.1%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 42.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

1.3%

2.7%

75–84

3.1%

5.4%

65–74

6.2%

6.7%

55–64

7.2%

6.8%

45–54

6.9%

5.3%

35–44

5.8%

6.2%

25–34

6.2%

3.9%

18–24

3.8%

8.4%

5–17

8.2%

2.9%

2.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$49,235

Chesterfield County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Chesterfield County$49,235

South Carolina$69,324

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.3%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

23.9%

Methodist

11.6%

Other Christian

8.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.9%

Mainline Protestant

1.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.0%

Non-Christian

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 49.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Chesterfield sits in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, where a predominantly rural, majority-white-and-Black mixed population has shifted steadily toward Republicans at the top of the ticket over the past decade, reaching a 28-point margin in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Chesterfield County, by a one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-eight points in 2024. The 2024 margin was twenty-eight points.

The political shift has tracked, in Chesterfield County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 60% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $49,235, and a 20% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chowan County and Colleton County.

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Chesterfield County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.