All racesSouth Carolina U.S. SenateFEED 8:16 PM ET, 0s AGO
South Carolina runoff, August 25, 2026

U.S. Senate

Republican runoff
Polls close 7:00 PM ET
Too close to call, ahead
53.7%Darline Graham+7.5 over Norman
Votes counted
166,165of about 384,870 expected
Precincts reporting
34.5%798 of 2,312 precincts
Lead holds
75%modeled from the margin and 34.5% counted, not a poll

The field

2 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

Darline GrahamINCUMBENT53.7%89,287 votes
Ralph Norman46.3%76,878 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 166,165 votes counted so far, 154,963 come with the ballot type published. Mail ballots are usually counted first and election-day ballots last, so a lead built on one can move as the others land. Each bar below is that way of voting on its own: who won it, and by how much.

Ballots counted so far, by type
Mail and absentee0.9%1,429 votesEarly in person37.8%58,536 votesElection day61.3%94,998 votes
Mail and absentee1,429 votes, 1% of the count
Graham59.5%850Norman40.5%579
Early in person58,536 votes, 38% of the count
Graham53.0%31,044Norman47.0%27,492
Graham won early in person ballots by 6.1 points over Norman.
Election day94,998 votes, 61% of the count
Graham54.8%52,029Norman45.2%42,969
Graham won election day ballots by 9.5 points over Norman.

Registered voters across the counties in this race: 3,018,371 in total, which the 166,165 votes counted so far are 5.5% of. Registration is the whole electorate, not the primary electorate, so it sets the scale rather than predicting the result.

What is left to count

5 of 46 counties finished, 37 reporting anything.

Every county with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Where the vote is coming from

Shaded for whoever leads each county, deeper where the margin is wider. Click one to pin it below.

GrahamNormanNot yet reporting

9 of 46 counties have not reported a vote yet, so they are left unshaded. Nothing is missing from the map: every county in the state is drawn, and each one fills in as its first results land.

Every county

46 counties in this race. 9 counties have counted nothing yet, between them 210,371 registered voters. These cover 154,987 of the 166,165 votes counted; the other 11,178 were counted districtwide across counties they cannot be assigned to, and are in the ledger below. Click any of them to break it down above.

Topline from Decision Desk HQ. Counties and ballot-type splits from the South Carolina Election Commission county file. Feeds update minutes apart, so the counties can trail the topline. Percentages are shares of this contest. Where a county reports no precinct count, progress is its vote against the expected total instead. Lead confidence reflects how much of the vote is still out, not a poll. Unofficial until certified.