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U.S. Senator · South Carolina
Darline Graham
RepublicanState R+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score27#89 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Darline Graham’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office211 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.524 (party median +0.558; rank 23 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 92 (avg 88).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: S. 6, S. 9.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 6 Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- July 14, 2026 – January 3, 2027
- Senate class
- Class 2
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 0.2 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3No committee assignments on record
Either this member holds no committee seats or the assignments have not been loaded yet.
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Graham← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.524 is 0.03 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress92Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1829Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 33 70% of inputs · missing similar votes
| Middle |