Voter Roll Purges in South Carolina, 2022-25: Explore the Data

South Carolina's voter rolls are shrinking even as the population grows. Explore the data here.

Published Sept. 2, 2026

South Carolina’s population is growing, but our voter rolls are shrinking. South Carolina removed 1.2 million voters from its rolls between 2022 and 2025. That’s more than the number of new voters who registered in the same period.

Explore the data in the interactive graphics below. Here are a few of the statistical highlights:

  • South Carolina removed a total of 1,162,839 people from its voter rolls from 2022-2025. During this period, the state also added 1,077,268 people to its voter rolls. Consequently, there were 85,571 fewer registered voters in the state in 2025 than there were in 2022.
  • While the number of total registered voters declined in most South Carolina counties between 2022 and 2025, the declines tended to be larger in counties with large Black and Brown populations.
  • The share of South Carolina's voting-age population that is not white increased every year from 2022 to 2024. Meanwhile, the non-white share of the state's registered voter rolls decreased during the same time period.

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Methodology: Data analysis conducted by Alex Yurcaba, Senior Analyst, ACLU Technology Department. These data are from the South Carolina Election Commission's Voter History Results and Annual Reports. They show the number of voters registered in each county on the date of each statewide election from 1984 to present. Voters are disaggregated by race and age.

In this statistical analysis, the term "non-white" includes people who the state identified as Asian, Hispanic, Black / African American, or Native American.