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The2024 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary was held on February 3, 2024, as part of theDemocratic Party primaries for the2024 presidential election.[2] 65 delegates to theDemocratic National Convention will be allocated to presidential candidates.[3]CNN andAssociated Press called the race early, for incumbent PresidentJoe Biden. Biden won in a landslide of the total turnout of 4% of registered voters, receiving no less than 94% of the vote in every county.[4]
Under the Democratic Party's 2024 calendar that was released in February 2023, South Carolina was scheduled to hold the first primary on February 3, withNew Hampshire andNevada expected to hold their primaries on February 6.[5] However, due to New Hampshire state law requiring that its primary must be held first, the state helda primary boycotted by theDemocratic National Committee (DNC) on January 23, which incumbent presidentJoe Biden won as awrite-in candidate.[6] The election marked the first time that South Carolina hosted the first primary of the Democratic nominating process supported by the DNC.[7]
Christale Spain, the first black woman state chair of theSouth Carolina Democratic Party, was put in charge of running the primary.[8] South Carolina holdsopen primaries, so any registered voter in the state can participate.[9]
South Carolina will choose 65 delegates, of which 10 will be unpledgedsuperdelegates and seven will be party leaders and officials who are pledged to a candidate. The remaining delegates will be allocated proportionally based on the results of this primary. 36 delegates will be allocated by congressional district, and the other 12 will be allocated at large.[3] Candidates who receive less than 15% of the vote in a congressional district or at large will not receive any delegates from that district.[10]
The following candidates were certified by the executive council of theSouth Carolina Democratic Party as candidates:[11]
The following candidates filed, although they were not certified by the council:
In December 2023, Uygur's campaign filed a lawsuit against the state party for rejecting his candidate filing.[12]
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Joe Biden | Dean Phillips | Marianne Williamson | Undecided |
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| Emerson College[13] | January 2–3, 2024 | 320 (LV) | ± 5.4% | 69.4% | 5.2% | 3.0% | 22.4% |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Pete Buttigieg | Roy Cooper | Kamala Harris | Gavin Newsom | Bernie Sanders | Elizabeth Warren | Undecided |
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| Spry Strategies[14] | January 17–19, 2022 | 251 (LV) | – | 14% | 2% | 26% | 6% | 8% | 10% | 34% |
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| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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| Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |||
| Joe Biden (incumbent) | 126,493 | 96.2% | 55 | TBD | 55 |
| Marianne Williamson | 2,732 | 2.1% | 0 | TBD | 0 |
| Dean Phillips | 2,247 | 1.7% | 0 | 0 | |
| Total: | 131,472 | 100% | 55 | 10 | 65 |
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