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South Carolina 2024 live election results: Trump projected to win

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ABC News is projecting that former President Donald Trump will win South Carolina's nine electoral votes.

Trump would then take South Carolina’s nine Electoral College votes.

Polls closed at 7 p.m.

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The exterior of the South Carolina State House is seen in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 29, 2023.

State significance

South Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate since 1980. Donald Trump won the state in 2020 by over 10 percentage points.

South Carolina played a notable role in the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries earlier this year, having the first primary where President Joe Biden was on the ballot -- and it is the home state of then-presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley.

Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how the vote will report this year.