South Carolina State Senate District 43
Next vote Tue, Nov 7, 2028 · Represented by Chip Campsen Republican · Member list as of Oct 28
This seat has no race on the official 2026 list.
- Last election
- Chip Campsen (Republican) won by 22.3 points, 2024
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History (11 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 68,744
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
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- Older district map (2022 to 2024)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon Republican 41,99661.1% DemocraticJulie Cofer Hussey Democratic 26,69738.8% Scattered write-ins Write-in 510.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 67,547
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
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- Older district map (2012 to 2020)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon(incumbent) Republican 37,93856.2% DemocraticRichard Hricik Democratic 29,55043.8% Scattered write-ins Write-in 590.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 39,788
- Election day
- November 8, 2016
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- Older district map (2012 to 2016)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2016, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon(incumbent) Republican 39,05698.2% Scattered write-ins Write-in 7321.8% - Votes for listed candidates
- 36,227
- Election day
- November 6, 2012
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- Older district map (2012)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2012, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon(incumbent) Republican 35,61898.3% Scattered write-ins Write-in 6091.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 25,725
- Election day
- November 4, 2008
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- Older district map (2004 to 2011)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2008, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon(incumbent) Republican 25,725100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 36,202
- Election day
- November 2, 2004
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- Older district map (2004 to 2011)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2004, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanChip CampsenWon Republican 22,57062.3% DemocraticConstance Anastopoulo Democratic 13,63237.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 10,846
- Election day
- November 7, 2000
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 2000, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticErnest L. PassailaigueWon(incumbent) Democratic 6,89063.5% RepublicanLanneau Siegling Republican 3,95636.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 7,935
- Election day
- November 5, 1996
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 1996, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticErnest L. PassailaigueWon(incumbent) Democratic 7,935100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 19,690
- Election day
- November 3, 1992
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 1992, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticErnest L. PassailaigueWon(incumbent) Democratic 11,76859.8% RepublicanSylvia W. Risher Republican 7,92240.2% - Votes for listed candidates
- 11,919
- Election day
- November 8, 1988
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- Older district map (1984 to 1991)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 1988, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticErnest L. PassailaigueWon Democratic 6,49154.5% RepublicanEugene Foxworth Republican 5,42445.5% Scattered write-ins Write-in 40.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 12,635
- Election day
- November 6, 1984
- District map
- Older district map (1984 to 1991)
South Carolina Senate District 43, 1984 to 2024, 1984, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanWilliam E. Applegate IIIWon Republican 6,85054.2% DemocraticPaul Cantrell(incumbent) Democratic 5,78545.8%
- 2024: MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns; not an official source
- 1984 to 2020: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns; not an official source
Last contest in this district on file: 2024.
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Election Wrld. (2026). South Carolina State Senate District 43, election results 1984 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/sc/senate/43. Retrieved October 30, 2026.
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Sources: Census TIGERweb Legislative MapServer (120th CDs layer 0, 119th CDs layer 4, 2026 SLD upper layer 1 and lower layer 2) (US Census Bureau, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open Civic Data division identifiers (census_autogenerated us_sldl/us_sldu and openstates state files); also (sld-recent.json): Open Civic Data division identifiers (country-us) (CC0 (repository); also (sld-recent.json): CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open States people (current) CSVs (CC0-1.0 (Open States people data)), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns, not an official source; MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips) (Not stated in the GitHub repository (an earlier label said "MIT (repo)", which the repository does not support). MEDSL's Harvard Dataverse records are CC0 1.0, but these GitHub files were not checksum-matched to the Dataverse files, so CC0 is not claimed for them.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns, not an official source; State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source.
District id: ocd-division/country:us/state:sc/sldu:43
DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), MEDSL 2024 official precinct returnsData as of Oct 28, 2026