South Carolina State Senate elections, 2024
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| 2024 South Carolina Senate Elections | |
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| Primary | June 11, 2024 |
| Primary runoff | June 25, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the South Carolina State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was June 11, 2024, and the primary runoff was June 25, 2024. The filing deadline was April 1, 2024.
The South Carolina State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. Following the election, Republicans maintained a 34-12 majority. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Republicans had a two-thirds supermajority in the House but not the Senate. Republicans needed to gain at least one Senate seat and lose fewer than 6 House seats to attain a legislative supermajority in both chambers. Democrats needed to maintain their Senate seats or or gain at least 6 House seats to prevent a Republican supermajority.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 15 | 12 | |
| Republican Party | 30 | 34 | |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 46 | |
Candidates
General election
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Sarah Work (Alliance Party) |
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Kiral Mace (Workers Party) |
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Mike Fanning (i) |
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Chris Nelums (United Citizens Party) |
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Kendal Ludden (Libertarian Party) |
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Gerald Malloy (i) |
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Kevin Johnson (i) |
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Vernon Stephens (i) |
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Primary runoff
South Carolina State Senate primary runoff 2024 |
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Primary
South Carolina State Senate primary 2024 |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 13 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 14 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 15 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 16 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 18 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 19 |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 22 |
The Republican primary was canceled. Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 23 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 35 |
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| District 37 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 42 |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 45 |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in South Carolina
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Campaign finance
- See also: Campaign finance
The section and tables below contain data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. Districts and elections are grouped in sections of 10. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
Four incumbents lost in general elections. An average of 1.3 incumbents lost per even election year from 2010-2022.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Mike Fanning | Senate District 17 | |
| Gerald Malloy | Senate District 29 | |
| Kevin Johnson | Senate District 36 | |
| Vernon Stephens | Senate District 39 |
Incumbents defeated in primaries
Four incumbents lost in primaries. This was more than the average of 2.3 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Katrina Shealy | Senate District 23 | |
| Dick Harpootlian | Senate District 26 | |
| Penry Gustafson | Senate District 27 | |
| Sandy Senn | Senate District 41 |
Retiring incumbents
Five incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] The average number of retirements each election cycle from 2010 to 2022 was 4.3. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in South Carolina. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in South Carolina in 2024. Information below was calculated on May 24, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
South Carolina had 79 contested state legislative primaries in 2024, an increase of 65% from the preceding cycle.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ South Carolina Code, "Title 7-11-15(a)," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Nomination by Political Party," accessed October 24, 2013
- ↑ South Carolina Code, "Title 7-11-15(a)," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 South Carolina Code, "Title 7-11-70," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Nomination by Petition," accessed October 24, 2013
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Nomination by Petition," accessed October 24, 2013
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "Write-in Candidates," accessed October 24, 2013
- ↑ South Carolina Code, "Title 7-11-210," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ South Carolina Secretary of State, "Qualifications for office," accessed December 18, 2013
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ South Carolina Constitution, "Article III, Section 10," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ States' Rights Democratic Party
