Obama Wins Charleston County

Mitt Romney won South Carolina’s nine electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Barack Obama in the state, but Charleston County remained the patch of blue in a largely red state.

In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Republican candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race three out of five times.

But Charleston has consistently voted for Democrats for the highest office in the land. Democrats managed to carry the county this year 51 to 47. Charleston Count Democratic Party Chairman Richard Hricik called the race repeatedly in the months leading up to the November election.

Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in South Carolina. The state has typically been a Republican stronghold in four decades of presidential elections.