Past Endorsements

2025 Special Elections

In 2025, CVSC took an active role in three of the five special elections held for the South Carolina State House and Senate, engaging voters through calls, texts, direct mail, and digital ads. CVSC is especially proud of Keishan Scott’s landslide victory to the State House, a win for strong leadership that holds polluters accountable and champions clean air and water for all South Carolinians.

2024 Elections

In 2024, we invested over $1.4 million in our political programs, reaching over four million voters across the state to support conservation candidates. We knocked on 105,000 doors, made 136,000 phone calls, sent 350,000 texts, distributed 1,093,000 mailers with voting and candidate information, and ran a robust series of digital and radio ads to back candidates committed to protecting South Carolina’s air, land, and water. Ultimately, 31 CVSC-endorsed candidates were elected to office.

2022 Elections

CVSC endorsed 24 candidates in House primary elections, including 19 Republicans and 5 Democrats. CVSC PAC invested in each of the 24 primaries – through targeted mail, door-to-door voter contacts, or direct contributions – for a total of 381,000 voter contacts.

2021 Municipal Elections

CVSC’s 2021 endorsement below is our first-ever endorsement in a municipal election. We rarely make local endorsements, and often only in exceptional circumstances. We do not anticipate making local endorsements in every local election or in every election year.

2020 Endorsements

In the 2020 primary and general elections, CVSC and CVSC PAC (CVSC-PAC) invested in direct mail, digital, and phone activities – for a total of over 1.3 million voter contacts – leading to a 88% win rate in 2020.

2018 Endorsements

CVSC and CVSC PAC spent $165,600 in the primary and general elections, endorsing 20 Republicans and 14 Democrats for House and Senate elections, with a focus on creating a solid bipartisan clean energy majority at the State House. Our investments led to an 89% win rate in 2018.

2016 Endorsements

CVSC’s 2016 investments of over $173,000 led to the defeat of the only two Senators who had scored a 0% on our Conservation Scorecard. In route to secure an 82% win rate, CVSC knocked on over 30,250 doors, placed over 12,000 phone calls, and sent 230,000 pieces of mail.

2014 Endorsements

CVSC and CVSC-PAC secured an 83% success rate in the 2014 elections.

2012/2013 Endorsements

CVSC and CVSC-PAC secured a 90% success rate in 2012 and 2013 elections.