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In 2018, one statewide ballot measure was certified for the ballot in South Carolina on November 6, 2018. The ballot measure was defeated.
Contents
On the ballot
| Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRCA | Amendment 1 | Executive Official | Makes the Superintendent of Education an appointed position |  |
Historical facts
- See also: List of South Carolina ballot measures
- A total of 38 measures appeared on statewide ballots between 1996 and 2016.
- From 1996 to 2016, an average of three to four measures appeared on the ballot during even-numbered years in South Carolina.
- The number of measures appearing on even-year statewide ballots between 1996 and 2016 ranged from zero to nine.
- Between 1996 and 2016, 86.84 percent (33 of 38) of statewide ballots were approved by voters, and 13.16 percent (5 of 38) were defeated.
Summary of campaign contributions
- See also: Ballot measure campaign finance, 2018
The following chart illustrates how much support and opposition committees had amassed in campaign contributions for each measure on the ballot:
| Ballot Measure: | Support contributions: | Opposition contributions: | Outcome: |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Amendment 1 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
State profile
This excerpt is reprinted here with the permission of the 2016 edition of the Almanac of American Politics and is up to date as of the publication date of that edition. All text is reproduced verbatim, though links have been added by Ballotpedia staff. To read the full chapter on South Carolina, click here.
History is inescapable anywhere, but especially so in the South - as Americans have been reminded in recent years, when South Carolina has repeatedly been vaulted into the headlines for tragic incidents, and for efforts at reconciliation.
In 2015, a gunman with a history of white supremacist beliefs entered a historic African-American church in Charleston, sat down for Bible study, and then systematically gunned down nine black worshippers - including the pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney – as he squeezed the trigger more than 75 times. Amid the mourning, a debate about an old subject - race and Confederate heritage - reemerged. Critics said the state should finally do what it had previously balked at - remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds in Columbia, where it had flown, in one way or another, since the depths of the civil rights conflict in 1962. Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who prior to the killings had shown little interest in following her ...(read more)
| Demographic data for South Carolina | ||
|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | U.S. | |
| Total population: | 4,894,834 | 316,515,021 |
| Land area (sq mi): | 30,061 | 3,531,905 |
| Gender | ||
| Female: | 51.4% | 50.8% |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White: | 67.2% | 73.6% |
| Black/African American: | 27.5% | 12.6% |
| Asian: | 1.4% | 5.1% |
| Native American: | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| Pacific Islander: | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Two or more: | 2% | 3% |
| Hispanic/Latino: | 5.3% | 17.1% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate: | 85.6% | 86.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 25.8% | 29.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income: | $45,483 | $53,889 |
| Persons below poverty level: | 22% | 11.3% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015)
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
Presidential voting pattern
South Carolina voted Republican in all five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016.
Pivot Counties (2016)
Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes. Of these 206 counties, five are located in South Carolina, accounting for 2.43 percent of the total pivot counties.[1]
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See also
- ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
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