The Alliance Party of South Carolina, known as the American Party of South Carolina until 2018, is a third party in the United States.

Background

The Alliance Party of South Carolina was launched in late February 2019.

Elections

In the

2018 South Carolina elections A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 6, 2018. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives. G ...

, the party unsuccessfully ran thirteen candidates, one of whom was under a fusion vote with the Democratic Party, for public office. In the

2020 South Carolina elections A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 3, 2020. To vote by mail, registered South Carolina voters must have requested a ballot by October 30, 2020. As of early October, some 481,602 voters requested mail b ...

, the Alliance Party's presidential candidate Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra, received 1,862 votes, around 0.07%. The party unsuccessfully ran five other candidates for public office. In the 2022 South Carolina elections, the party unsuccessfully ran three candidates. Sarah E. Work performed the best of the three with her bid for state treasurer, gaining 281,695 votes, around 19.86% of the vote, in a two way race against a Republican candidate.

2024 elections

On May 31, 2024, the party nominated Independent

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for president, granting him ballot access in South Carolina. The party nominated two additional federal candidates: Michael Bedenbaugh for the South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District seat being vacated by Republican Jeff Duncan, and Joseph Oddo for South Carolina's 6th Congressional District seat against incumbent Democrat Jim Clyburn The party is running two candidates for the

South Carolina General Assembly The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and t ...

: Sarah Work who ran in 2022, running for State Senate District 15, and Jackie Todd for State House District 8. In March, James Albert Pauling filed to run as the party candidate for Marlboro County Sheriff.

Platform

According to the American Party, it supported term limits, campaign finance reform, and "attacking problems from the center instead of the left or the right".

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