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10-19. South Carolina Registered Voters as a Percent of Voting
Age Population by Race by County: 1996
TOTAL WHITE NONWHITE
% OF TOTAL % 0F WHITE % NONWHITE
REGISTERED VOTING AGE REGISTERED VOTING AGE REGISTERED VOTING AGE
COUNTY VOTERS POPULATION VOTERS POPULATION VOTERS POPULATION
Abbeville 9,981 54.0 7,337 56.4 2,644 48.1
Aiken 55,630 56.0 45,740 59.7 9,890 43.4
Allendale 5,036 60.0 1,828 60.9 3,208 59.4
Anderson 58,188 49.1 52,014 52.0 6,174 33.4
Bamberg 7,537 62.3 3,416 68.3 4,121 58.0
Barnwell 9,431 60.8 6,099 65.6 3,332 53.7
Beaufort 42,615 58.0 33,966 63.0 8,649 44.1
Berkeley 45,432 48.3 33,497 47.8 11,935 49.9
Calhoun 6,749 66.8 3,925 75.5 2,824 57.6
Charleston 130,382 59.8 90,844 61.9 39,538 55.5
Cherokee 18,369 51.5 15,444 53.3 2,925 43.7
Chester 13,769 55.7 8,864 56.5 4,905 54.5
Chesterfield 15,468 52.4 11,262 55.2 4,206 46.2
Clarendon 13,742 63.9 6,839 68.4 6,903 60.0
Colleton 14,486 54.5 8,925 58.3 5,561 49.2
Darlington 24,745 51.3 16,380 53.9 8,365 47.0
Dillon 11,848 55.9 7,328 58.2 4,520 52.6
Dorchester 36,419 59.7 28,396 61.3 8,023 54.6
Edgefield 9,117 64.7 5,732 71.7 3,385 55.5
Fairfield 9,857 59.4 4,781 63.7 5,076 55.8
Florence 50,745 56.6 34,428 59.8 16,317 50.8
Georgetown 22,637 62.2 14,551 65.0 8,086 57.8
Greenville 138,335 53.0 119,288 55.3 19,047 42.3
Greenwood 23,056 48.8 17,933 52.7 5,123 38.8
Hampton 11,013 82.2 5,270 78.7 5,743 85.7
Horry 70,129 58.8 61,673 61.4 8,456 44.7
Jasper 7,267 63.7 3,554 68.3 3,713 59.9
Kershaw 21,310 60.7 16,386 64.0 4,924 51.8
Lancaster 22,141 52.3 18,447 56.6 3,694 38.1
Laurens 20,674 44.8 16,460 48.7 4,214 34.3
Lee 9,648 72.0 4,237 75.7 5,411 69.4
Lexington 84,453 59.6 77,889 61.7 6,564 42.6
McCormick 4,176 58.8 2,043 65.9 2,133 53.3
Marion 15,228 60.4 7,340 59.2 7,888 61.6
Marlboro 10,960 51.2 6,289 56.7 4,671 45.3
Newberry 15,746 60.6 11,885 67.5 3,861 46.0
Oconee 26,588 56.0 24,905 57.4 1,683 41.0
Orangeburg 40,655 64.9 18,636 66.8 22,019 63.5
Pickens 36,288 46.7 34,355 48.1 1,933 30.7
Richland 128,354 57.2 82,254 61.6 46,100 50.7
Saluda 7,738 60.0 5,858 64.4 1,880 49.5
Spartanburg 86,120 46.6 72,186 48.7 13,934 35.2
Sumter 36,516 46.5 21,667 47.6 14,849 45.0
Union 12,981 54.8 9,975 58.0 3,006 46.2
Williamsburg 17,327 65.6 7,032 67.0 10,295 64.7
York 53,213 49.5 45,783 52.9 7,430 35.2
TOTAL 1,512,099 55.0 1,132,941 57.2 379,358 49.3
Note: Voting Age Population - population 18 years of age and older.
Population projections as of 11-1-96 (based on April 1, 1990 Census
figures) were used for the percent calculations.
Source: S.C. State Election Commission, Registered Voters (4-1-96)
April 1996; percentage calculations & projections by the Office
of Research and Statistics.
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