South Carolina candidate receipts: $45.9M, 69.7% Republican

Republican $32.0 million, Democratic $13.8 million

Republican candidate receipts are 69.7% of South Carolina’s $45.9 million. Democratic receipts of $13.8 million are 30.0%. Other-party receipts of $148,942 are 0.3%. The split is a party-code roll-up of 664 committees. It is not a map of the 51,719 donors and not a statement about primary turnout.

Presidential primary history is not a field in these aggregates. This page reports the 2026-cycle receipt and donor totals as indexed from FEC.gov. It does not import polling or past vote shares.

A complete citation for South Carolina names both $45.9 million in candidate receipts across 664 filers and $304.1 million from 51,719 donors, then stops. Adding a third invented total is how these pages go wrong.

664 filers behind $45.9 million

The candidate count of 664 includes House, Senate, and other federal filers with a South Carolina association on the FEC record. Many of those committees hold little of the $45.9 million. The South Carolina hub’s receipt sort isolates the committees that hold the $32.0 million Republican line and the $13.8 million Democratic line.

Independent expenditures that mention a South Carolina candidate sit outside the $45.9 million. Those amounts, when disclosed, belong to the Super PAC or PAC that paid for them.

Cycle 2026 remains open. Amendments move Form 3 receipts. Restated individual files move donor aggregates. If the live South Carolina hub disagrees with this guide, the hub and FEC.gov control.

South Carolina’s cycle-2026 candidate file is a receipt file. $45.9 million is inflows reported by 664 committees, not cash on hand and not money spent on ads. A committee can report receipts that still sit unspent. The South Carolina hub’s receipt sort shows concentration without inventing a statistic that is not in the packet.

South Carolina donors: $304.1 million from 51,719 people

The individual contribution total of $304.1 million exceeds the $45.9 million candidate book. South Carolina residents give to national PACs, Super PACs, and out-of-state campaigns; those gifts remain South Carolina donor dollars. The donor series does not inherit the 69.7% Republican candidate-receipt share.

Fifty-one thousand seven hundred nineteen donors is the FEC contributor count. Occupation strings live on the underlying rows.

State Ethics Commission filings

South Carolina state-office campaigns file with the State Ethics Commission. Those reports are not in the $45.9 million or the $304.1 million. This page is federal 2026-cycle data from FEC.gov.

South Carolina FEC totals

The South Carolina FEC totals page carries the live 2026 table. Candidate, PAC, and Super PAC directories share the same FEC.gov backbone. Numbers on this guide are packet facts only.

Putting South Carolina’s FEC fields on one page without mixing them

The packet for South Carolina contains seven quantitative fields for cycle 2026: 664 candidates, $45.9 million in candidate receipts, $13.8 million Democratic, $32.0 million Republican, $148,942 other, $304.1 million donated, and 51,719 donors. This guide cites those fields and percentages computed from them. It does not cite poll numbers, independent-expenditure totals, or state-office filings, because those are not in the packet.

Candidate receipts of $45.9 million can include individual gifts, PAC transfers, and other inflows a campaign discloses. They do not include Super PAC ads. Donor totals of $304.1 million count itemized individual contributions originating from South Carolina regardless of the recipient. The two series overlap only where a South Carolina donor gave to a South Carolina-tagged candidate committee.

Party shares — 30.0% Democratic, 69.7% Republican, 0.3% other — are receipt shares. They are not donor shares. The South Carolina FEC totals page, the candidate directory, the PAC directory, and the Super PAC tracker are the four LobbyVault views that share FEC.gov as the source.

This page does not claim that 30.0% of South Carolina donors are Democratic or that 69.7% are Republican. Those percentages apply to candidate receipts of $13.8 million and $32.0 million out of $45.9 million. It does not claim that $304.1 million was spent in South Carolina. Donor dollars follow the recipient committee, which may file anywhere.

It does not claim that 664 candidates will appear on a general-election ballot. It does not convert $148,942 into a named third party. It does not add $45.9 million to $304.1 million. It does not include state-office money.

What it does claim is narrower: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault show these 2026-cycle totals for South Carolina, and the South Carolina hub plus the candidate, PAC, and Super PAC directories are the tables behind them.

Questions

How much have South Carolina federal candidates raised in 2026?

South Carolina-associated federal candidate committees reported $45.9 million in receipts across 664 filers. Republican committees reported $32.0 million and Democratic committees reported $13.8 million, per FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault.

What share of South Carolina candidate receipts is Republican?

Republican candidate committees reported $32.0 million, or 69.7% of the $45.9 million total. Democratic committees reported $13.8 million (30.0%) and other filers $148,942. Party codes come from candidate FEC registrations.

How much have South Carolina donors given federally?

Individual contribution aggregates show $304.1 million from 51,719 South Carolina donors. That series includes gifts to PACs and out-of-state campaigns and is separate from the $45.9 million in candidate receipts.

Are South Carolina state races included?

No. These figures are FEC.gov federal data. State Ethics Commission filings for state offices are not part of the $45.9 million or $304.1 million.