About this page…

Meet the Candidates is a series of web pages that we hope will give you a good idea of what to expect on your York County ballot for the November 3 General Election.

See our Voting in York County page for more details on things like Early Voting and Polling Places.

Other places to look

The SC Votes Candidate Tracker‍ ‍shows all the candidates, but it’s a little complicated😕. You’ll be presented with a bunch of drop-down boxes and several choices.

You can keep up on Ballotpedia and Wikipedia.

Money in Politics:

SPOILER ALERT: Republicans raise a lot more than Democrats in South Carolina

Check out this FEC page, for Federal election fundraising totals – it’s eye-opening👁. The link takes you to the US House candidates in SC5, where the reports for the first quarter of 2026 (through March 31) are now listed. Yes, Republican Wes Climer, the Republican running for Congress from SC 5 has raked in over $750k💰, while Democratic competitor Mallory Dittmer raised about $80,000. Perhaps this will encourage you to open your checkbook (do you still use a checkbook?)

State Candidates report here. These reports cover every candidate and public official in the state from Governor to dog catcher, searched by last name (only). It’s a little hard to search — common names bring up dozens or hundreds of listings — but once you find your target, again, it’s eye opening and there is a lot of detail. Look hard enough and find the names of every contributor, and how much they gave. Of course this isn’t the dark money that goes to PACs, just what people are willing to be accountable for (or didn’t realize they were being reported in public records).

To request an update or report an error on this website, contact YCDPTV@gmail.com.