2024 SC Legislative Scorecard

The following scorecard lists several key votes in the South Carolina General Assembly in 2024 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.

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Senate Votes

House Votes

1. Article V Convention: Balanced Budget Amendment

Would apply to Congress for a "convention of the states" under Article V of the U.S. Constitution "limited" to proposing a balanced budget amendment.

2. Expanding Government-Run Education

Would increase the amounts of annual refundable tax credits allocated to the Education Scholarship Trust Fund and expand eligibility to all private and homeschool students.

Read More Constitutional Vote: No Cost per household: -$94.00/year

H5164 Roll Call 1413108

3. Defeating James Smith for Circuit Court Judge

Prevented former State Rep. and Democratic gubernatorial candidate James Smith from being elected to the position of Circuit Court Judge, 5th Judicial Circuit, Seat 1.

4. South Carolina "Health Czar" Bill

Would create the office of the Secretary of Public Health and Policy to develop a "cohesive, coordinated, and comprehensive State Health Services Plan."

5. Non-Citizen Voter Registration

Struck down an amendment to the FY 2024-25 General Appropriations Act that would have prohibited state agencies from distributing voter registration forms to non-citizens.

6. Ban on Sex Mutilation of Children

Bans a health care professional from engaging in the provision or performance of "gender transition procedures" to a person under 18 years of age.

How did they vote?

Legend: Constitutional Unconstitutional Did not vote

Name	Party	Score
Terry Alexander	D	0%
Carl L. Anderson	D	25%
Frank Lucas Atkinson	D	33%
William H. Bailey	R	33%
Nathan Ballentine	R	20%
Justin T. Bamberg	D	33%
Bruce W. Bannister	R	20%
Heather Bauer	D	33%
Thomas Beach	R	50%
Beth E. Bernstein	D	40%
Bart T. Blackwell	R	0%
Jeff A. Bradley	R	N/A
Gary S. Brewer	R	33%
Thomas Case Brittain	R	40%
James Mikell Burns	R	80%
Joseph M. Bustos	R	33%
Paula Rawl Calhoon	R	20%
Jerry T. Carter	R	40%
Micajah P. Caskey	R	20%
Donald Chapman	R	33%
William M. Chumley	R	75%
William Clyburn	D	33%
Gilda Cobb-Hunter	D	33%
Neal A. Collins	R	20%
Benjamin Connell	R	40%
Bobby J. Cox	R	N/A
Brandon L. Cox	R	33%
Heather Ammons Crawford	R	20%
April Cromer	R	67%
Sylleste H. Davis	R	33%
Chandra E. Dillard	D	40%
Jason T. Elliott	R	33%
Shannon S. Erickson	R	33%
R. Raye Felder	R	40%
Cally R. Forrest	R	33%
Craig A. Gagnon	R	33%
Kambrell Houston Garvin	D	20%
Gil A. Gatch	R	N/A
Daniel Gibson	R	50%
Leon D. Gilliam	R	33%
Wendell G. Gilliard	D	33%
Thomas Duval Guest	R	40%
Brandon Guffey	R	33%
Patrick B. Haddon	R	40%
William Winston Hager	R	40%
Kevin Hardee	R	40%
Robert Harris	R	100%
Christopher R. Hart	D	N/A
Thomas F. Hartnett	R	33%
Jackie E. Hayes	D	25%
Rosalyn D. Henderson-Myers	D	N/A
Patricia Moore "Pat" Henegan	D	N/A
William G. Herbkersman	R	17%
William Lee Hewitt	R	33%
Davey R. Hiott	R	33%
William M. Hixon	R	50%
Lonnie Hosey	D	20%
Leon Howard	D	25%
William E. "Bill" Sandifer, III	R	40%
John Taliaferro "Jay" West, IV	R	20%
Jeffrey E. Johnson	R	40%
Jermaine L. Johnson	D	40%
Stewart O. Jones	R	60%
Wendell K. Jones	D	33%
Wallace H. Jordan	R	20%
Joseph H. Jefferson, Jr.	D	20%
Max T. Hyde, Jr.	R	0%
John Gregory Kilmartin	R	67%
John R. King	D	25%
Roger K. Kirby	D	33%
Katherine Landing	R	33%
Brian Lawson	R	33%
Matthew W. Leber	R	33%
Thomas R. Ligon	R	33%
Steven Wayne Long	R	40%
Phillip D. Lowe	R	40%
Roy Josiah Magnuson	R	100%
Robert J. May	R	60%
Donald Ryan McCabe	R	100%
John R. Mccravy	R	50%
Annie E. McDaniel	D	50%
Timothy A. McGinnis	R	33%
Cody T. Mitchell	R	33%
JA Moore	D	40%
Travis A. Moore	R	20%
Adam M. Morgan	R	67%
Timothy Alan Morgan	R	80%
Dennis Carroll Moss	R	50%
Christopher J. Murphy	R	40%
James Michael Neese	R	33%
Brandon Michael Newton	R	33%
Wm. Weston Newton	R	20%
Roger A. Nutt	R	60%
David L. O'Neal	R	60%
Melissa Lackey Oremus	R	25%
Russell L. Ott	D	33%
Jordan S. Pace	R	67%
Fawn M. Pedalino	R	33%
Marvin R. Pendarvis	D	75%
Thomas E. Pope	R	33%
Michael F. Rivers	D	33%
Robby Robbins	R	33%
Seth C. Rose	D	33%
James Todd Rutherford	D	33%
Carla Schuessler	R	33%
Heath Sessions	R	40%
Marvin M. Smith	R	33%
Murrell Smith	R	40%
Tiffany Spann-Wilder	D	N/A
Leonidas E. Stavrinakis	D	33%
Bill Taylor	R	33%
Anne J. Thayer	R	N/A
Ivory Torrey Thigpen	D	20%
Ashley B. Trantham	R	67%
David Vaughan	R	33%
J. David Weeks	D	33%
Elizabeth S. Wetmore	D	20%
William Walter Wheeler	D	33%
Joseph S. White	R	50%
William R. Whitmire	R	33%
Robert Q. Williams	D	33%
Mark N. Willis	R	25%
Christopher Sloan Wooten	R	33%
Richard L. Yow	R	20%

Average Freedom Score by Party

Party	Score
Democrat	31.7%
Republican	39.9%