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2026 South Carolina House race, District 3

Sheri Biggs (Republican), Eunice Lehmacher (Democrat) and Brian Corriea (Libertarian) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in South Carolina District 3, as recorded September 22, 2026 from the South Carolina State Election Commission.

The November ballot

Biggs
$505K
Lehmacher
$93K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Brian Corriea (Libertarian).

Official candidate list: South Carolina State Election Commission. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Sheri Biggs

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 56

263
Trades disclosed
$13M
Estimated volume
Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in South Carolina

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 30 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

Democratic primary

The primary · 31,342 votes

  • Eunice Lehmacher Won: 53.4% 16,730
  • Ernest Mackins: 46.6% 14,612

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: South Carolina Election Commission certified primary results. Certified June 12, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$600K
Outside money
$6.4K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Biggs$6.4K
Opposing Biggs-
Supporting Lehmacher-
Opposing Lehmacher-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

1%$6.4KSmall donors$36K38%
16%$83KLarge donors$53K57%
58%$291KPACs$333<1%
--Party$3.8K4%
--Self-funding$100<1%
25%$124KOther$112<1%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Sheri Biggs $111K.

Who is spending on this race

The largest group spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

1 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

R+46 in 2024

  • Sheri Biggs Won: 71.7%
  • Bryon L. Best: 25.3%

346,713 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 3.0%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

The district

Census context
People
750K
Median household income
$63K
Unemployment
4.7%
Living below the poverty line
15.6%
Without health insurance
9.7%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.