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United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were on November 5, 2024. 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 June 11, 2024, and a primary runoff was June 25, 2024. The filing deadline was April 1, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from South Carolina -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 1 | 1 | |
| Republican Party | 6 | 6 | |
| Total | 7 | 7 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Nancy Mace (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Michael B. Moore (Democratic Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
- Nancy Mace (Incumbent) ✔
- Catherine Templeton
- Bill Young
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
General election candidates
- Joe Wilson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- David Robinson II (Democratic Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Joe Wilson (Incumbent) ✔
- Hamp Redmond
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District 3
General election candidates
- Bryon Best (Democratic Party)
- Sheri Biggs (Republican Party) ✔
- Michael Bedenbaugh (Alliance Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Did not make the ballot:
- Jeff Duncan (Incumbent)
- Andrew Adams
- Michael LaPierre
- Patrick Orr
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Minor Party convention candidates
Alliance Party
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District 4
General election candidates
- William Timmons (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Kathryn Harvey (Democratic Party)
- Mark Hackett (Constitution Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Dennis Gillan (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Republican primary candidates
- William Timmons (Incumbent) ✔
- Adam Morgan
Minor Party convention candidates
Constitution Party
District 5
General election candidates
- Ralph Norman (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Evangeline Hundley (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Elizabeth Tedder (Independent) (Write-in)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Ralph Norman (Incumbent) ✔
District 6
General election candidates
- James Clyburn (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Duke Buckner (Republican Party)
- Joseph Oddo (Alliance Party)
- Michael Simpson (Libertarian Party)
- Gregg Marcel Dixon (United Citizens Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Justin Ginn (Independent)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- James Clyburn (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Minor Party convention candidates
Alliance Party
Libertarian Party
United Citizens Party
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District 7
General election candidates
- Russell Fry (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Mal Hyman (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Russell Fry (Incumbent) ✔
Voting information
- See also: Voting in South Carolina
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
- South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District
- South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District
- South Carolina's 4th Congressional District
- South Carolina's 5th Congressional District
- South Carolina's 6th Congressional District
- South Carolina's 7th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in South Carolina in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in South Carolina, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| South Carolina | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | $3,480.00 | 4/1/2024 | Source |
| South Carolina | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 5% of the active, registered voters in the district | N/A | 7/15/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in South Carolina.
| South Carolina U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 64.3% | 3 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 28 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 42.9% | 4 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2020 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 35.7% | 1 | 14.3% | ||||
| 2018 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 43 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 64.3% | 2 | 33.3% | ||||
| 2016 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 21.4% | 2 | 28.6% | ||||
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 35.7% | 2 | 28.6% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in South Carolina in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 23, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-nine candidates ran for South Carolina’s seven U.S. House districts, including 11 Democrats and 18 Republicans. That’s 4.14 candidates per district, more than the four candidates per district in 2022 and the 2.86 candidates in 2020.
The 3rd Congressional District was the only open district, meaning the incumbent did not file to run. The only other election cycle this decade when an incumbent did not run for re-election was 2018.
Incumbent Jeff Duncan (R-3rd) did not run for re-election because he is retired from public office.
Nine candidates—two Democrats and seven Republicans—ran for the open 3rd Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a seat in South Carolina in 2024.
Nine primaries—four Democratic and five Republican—were contested in 2024, tying with 2018 for the most this decade.
Three incumbents—Nancy Mace (R-1st), Joe Wilson (R-2nd), and William Timmons (R-4th)—were in contested primaries.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all seven districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for South Carolina, 2024 | |||
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| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| South Carolina's 1st | Nancy Mace |  Republican |
R+7 |
| South Carolina's 2nd | Joe Wilson | Republican |
R+8 |
| South Carolina's 3rd | Jeff Duncan | Republican |
R+21 |
| South Carolina's 4th | William Timmons | Republican |
R+12 |
| South Carolina's 5th | Ralph Norman | Republican |
R+12 |
| South Carolina's 6th | Jim Clyburn |  Democratic |
D+14 |
| South Carolina's 7th | Russell Fry | Republican |
R+11 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, South Carolina[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| South Carolina's 1st | 44.9% | 53.5% | ||
| South Carolina's 2nd | 43.9% | 54.5% | ||
| South Carolina's 3rd | 30.6% | 68.0% | ||
| South Carolina's 4th | 39.8% | 58.4% | ||
| South Carolina's 5th | 40.2% | 58.4% | ||
| South Carolina's 6th | 65.3% | 33.2% | ||
| South Carolina's 7th | 40.2% | 58.8% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of South Carolina's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from South Carolina | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Republican | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 7 | 9 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in South Carolina's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in South Carolina, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Henry McMaster
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| Lieutenant Governor | Pamela Evette
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| Secretary of State | Mark Hammond
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| Attorney General | Alan Wilson
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State legislature
South Carolina State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 15 | |
| Republican Party | 30 | |
| Other | 1 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | |
South Carolina House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 35 | |
| Republican Party | 88 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 1 | |
| Total | 124 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
South Carolina Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Twenty-two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
