United States House elections in South Carolina, 2022 (June 14 Republican primaries)

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U.S. House elections in South Carolina

Primary date
June 14, 2022

General election date
November 8, 2022

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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected seven candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's seven U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for June 14, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for June 28, 2022. The filing deadline was March 30, 2022.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
March 30, 2022
June 14, 2022
November 8, 2022


A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. South Carolina utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary. Voters must take an oath affirming that they have not voted in another party's primary.[1][2]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on South Carolina's Republican primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Democratic primaries and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

District 1

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


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District 2

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:


Did not make the ballot:

District 3

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

District 4

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


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District 5

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

District 6

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


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District 7

Republican Party Republican primary candidates


Did not make the ballot:


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Primary election competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in South Carolina.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in South Carolina in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 10, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Twenty-eight candidates filed to run for South Carolina’s seven U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and 19 Republicans. That’s four candidates per district, more than the 2.86 candidates per district in 2020 and less than the 6.14 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. South Carolina was apportioned seven districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. All incumbents ran for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year. The only years to feature open seats between 2012 and 2022 were 2018, when the 4th district was open, and 2012, when the newly-drawn 7th district was open.

There were two contested Democratic primaries this year, the lowest number since 2016, and four contested Republican primaries, the highest number since at least 2012.

Eight candidates - one Democrat and seven Republicans, including incumbent Rep. Tom Rice (R) - filed to run in the 7th district, more than in any other. That’s three less than the highest number of candidates who ran for a seat in 2020, when five candidates ran in the 1st district. There were three districts - the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 5th - where incumbents did not face primary challengers. One district - the 3rd - was guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed. No districts were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed.

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