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Candidates › South Carolina U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
RepublicanU.S. SenateSouth Carolina
Has not served in Congress
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Campaign committee · 2025–2026 · latest available filing · Official FEC bulk data
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Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 32% to named individuals, 43% to organizations, 17% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 0.7% to committees nothing more could be followed from, 6.7% not itemized in the filings.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Person · CEO, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · behind SLF PAC and NO Going Back PAC Inc. and 1 more | $4.2M |
| Organization · behind Palmetto Action | $3.8M |
| Organization · behind Security IS Strength PAC and Project 2026 | $3.4M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind SLF PAC | $3.3M |
| Organization · behind Security IS Strength PAC and Project 2026 | $3.2M |
| Person · Attorney, Pajcic & Pajcic · behind New Deal for All, Inc. | $2.5M |
| Organization · behind Government That Works PAC and Blackpac | $2.3M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Blackpac and Winsenate | $2.1M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Government That Works PAC and Blackpac and 1 more | $2.1M |
| Organization · behind Government That Works PAC and The Edge Action Fund and 1 more | $1.7M |
| Person · Physician, Adelson Drug Clinic · behind Security IS Strength PAC and SLF PAC and 3 more | $1.7M |
| Organization · behind Fresh Start SC PAC | $1.6M |
Read for the 19 largest groups of 53, 92% of the $69.7M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
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Lost · 10,833 votes (2.3%) · 6 of 6 · Full results ↗
Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
Primary June 9, 2026 · 3 polls
Each dot is a poll. The line is the median of the 5 latest nonpartisan polls. How polls are read
Lindsey Graham won by 27.9 points. The 2 final polls had a median of Lindsey Graham +20.2, understating Lindsey Graham's margin by 7.7 points.
| Poll | Lindsey Graham | Mark Lynch | Lead | vs. result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| InsiderAdvantageended Jun 6 | 51.2% | 20.9% | Lindsey Graham +30.3 | +2.4 |
| The Citadel Pollended May 31 | 46% | 36% | Lindsey Graham +10 | −17.9 |
| Median of the final polls | Lindsey Graham +20.2 | −7.7 | ||
| Result | 56.8% | 28.9% | Lindsey Graham +27.9 |
June 9, 2026 · Result (unofficial) · Each pollster's last poll ending in the 21 days before the vote, read for the two leading finishers; the median leaves out polls a side paid for
Primary August 11, 2026 · runoff August 25, 2026 · 4 polls
Darline Graham leads Ralph Norman by 5.2 points · average gap, 2 latest nonpartisan polls · 2 far-off polls left out
Poll data from The New York Times, licensed CC BY 4.0 · Updated November 10, 2026 · 21 polls paid for by a party or campaign are left out
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Each dot is a poll. The line is the median of the 5 latest nonpartisan polls. How polls are read
Darline Graham and Ralph Norman advanced. The 3 final polls had a median of Darline Graham +12.7, overstating Darline Graham's margin by 4.6 points.
| Poll | Darline Graham | Ralph Norman | Lead | vs. result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantus Insightsended Aug 6 | 33.1% | 20.4% | Darline Graham +12.7 | +4.6 |
| co/efficientended Jul 30 · had a different pair ahead | 30% | 15% | Darline Graham +15 | +6.9 |
| Emerson Collegeended Jul 29 | 23.1% | 25.4% | Ralph Norman +2.3 | −10.4 |
| Median of the final polls | Darline Graham +12.7 | +4.6 | ||
| Result | 32.7% | 24.6% | Darline Graham +8.1 |
August 11, 2026 · Result (unofficial, 99% reporting) · Each pollster's last poll ending in the 21 days before the vote, read for the two leading finishers; the median leaves out polls a side paid for
Darline Graham won by 4.9 points. No poll naming both Darline Graham and Ralph Norman ended in the 21 days before the vote.
| Poll | Darline Graham | Ralph Norman | Lead | vs. result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | 52.5% | 47.5% | Darline Graham +4.9 |
August 25, 2026 · Result (unofficial)
Not counted in the lead. This poll has Graham +15, 9.8 points from the median of the race's latest nonpartisan polls (Graham +5.2); a poll more than 8 points from it is left out.