Hilton Head Island: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and the Town of Hilton Head Island municipal general election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Graham seat; appointed Sen. Darline Graham running); U.S. Representative SC-1 (open); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open) and other statewide offices; SC House HD-123 (Town Hall); Beaufort County offices; and the nonpartisan Town election for Mayor (at-large) and Town Council Wards 2, 4 and 5. No SC Senate race (next 2028)..

Holding office13

the sitting council

On the ballot23

5 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Hilton Head Island is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): South Carolina's 1st congressional district (Town Hall, and every sampled point in the town) — Nancy Mace (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Alan Perry ✉️ Elected	Mayor → Winner 10,193 votes · 54.35%	Independent	Town of Hilton Head Island
Dave Ferguson	Mayor Concede 6,527 votes · 34.81%	Independent	Town of Hilton Head Island
Palmer E. Simmons	Mayor Concede 1,940 votes · 10.35%	Independent	Town of Hilton Head Island

Town Council Member — Ward 2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Patsy Brison ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member → Winner 1,689 votes · 51.45%	Independent	Ward 2	Town of Hilton Head Island
Josh Peeples	Town Council Member Concede 1,581 votes · 48.16%	Independent	Ward 2	Town of Hilton Head Island

Town Council Member — Ward 4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tamara Becker ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member → Winner 1,971 votes · 59.07%	Independent	Ward 4	Town of Hilton Head Island
Rick Ross	Town Council Member Concede 1,353 votes · 40.55%	Independent	Ward 4	Town of Hilton Head Island

Town Council Member — Ward 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Steve Alfred ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member	Independent	Ward 5	Town of Hilton Head Island
Charles Dowd	Town Council Member Concede 844 votes · 28.34%	Independent	Ward 5	Town of Hilton Head Island
David Ellis	Town Council Member Winner 1,733 votes · 58.19%	Independent	Ward 5	Town of Hilton Head Island
Rob Guthrie	Town Council Member Concede 390 votes · 13.1%	Independent	Ward 5	Town of Hilton Head Island

Town Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Alex Brown ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member	Independent	Ward 1	Town of Hilton Head Island
Melinda Tunner ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member	Independent	Ward 6	Town of Hilton Head Island
Steve DeSimone ✉️ Elected	Town Council Member	Independent	Ward 3	Town of Hilton Head Island

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Henry McMaster Elected	Governor	Republican	South Carolina Election Commission
Alan Wilson	Governor Winner 1,050,190 votes · 51.59%	Republican	South Carolina Election Commission
Jermaine Johnson	Governor Concede 959,001 votes · 47.11%	Democratic	South Carolina Election Commission
Michael Addison	Governor Concede 16,111 votes · 0.79%	United Citizens	South Carolina Election Commission
Walid Hakim	Governor Concede 9,078 votes · 0.45%	Green	South Carolina Election Commission

State Representative — HD-123

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jeff Bradley Elected	State Representative → Winner 12,225 votes · 55.95%	Republican		South Carolina Legislature
Ann C Shippy	State Representative Concede 9,618 votes · 44.02%	Democratic		South Carolina Election Commission

State Senator — SD-46

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tom Davis Elected	State Senator	Republican		South Carolina Legislature

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Tim Scott Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators
Darline Graham Elected	U.S. Senator → Concede 951,165 votes · 46.65%	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators
Annie Andrews	U.S. Senator Winner 1,042,362 votes · 51.13%	Democratic	South Carolina Election Commission
Kasie Whitener	U.S. Senator Concede 23,560 votes · 1.16%	Libertarian	South Carolina Election Commission
Mark Hackett	U.S. Senator Concede 16,799 votes · 0.82%	Constitution	South Carolina Election Commission

U.S. Representative — SC-1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Nancy Mace Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Bill Reeside	U.S. Representative Concede 5,346 votes · 1.64%	Libertarian	South Carolina Election Commission
Jenny Costa Honeycutt	U.S. Representative Concede 158,570 votes · 48.64%	Republican	South Carolina Election Commission
Nancy Lacore	U.S. Representative Winner 161,878 votes · 49.65%	Democratic	South Carolina Election Commission

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Municipal: Mayor and six ward members from the Town Council page (retrieved 2026-10-31): 'a mayor elected at-large and six council members elected from their respective wards'. Official @hiltonheadislandsc.gov emails and portrait URLs (linked) from that page; phone numbers on the page not copied. The Town Manager (Marc Orlando) is appointed and not listed.
2026 municipal election: the Town's '2026 Municipal Election' page (the Town Clerk is the filing officer; filing closed 2026-08-17 12 pm) lists Municipal General Election Tuesday, November 3, 2026, nonpartisan ('No political party affiliation will be placed on the ballot'), four-year terms, seats Mayor (At-Large), Wards 2, 4, 5. Candidates as printed: Mayor — Alan R. Perry, Dave Ferguson, Palmer E. Simmons; Ward 2 — Patsy Brison, Josh Peeples; Ward 4 — Tamara Becker, Rick Ross; Ward 5 — Charles Dowd, David Ellis, Rob Guthrie (open; incumbent Steve Alfred not listed). The page notes '* Candidacy is subject to applicable state laws'. Elections conducted by the Beaufort County Board of Voter Registration and Elections (not read). Next Town election after this: November 2028 (Wards 1, 3, 6), inferred from four-year staggered terms.
State/federal candidates: SC Election Commission Candidate Tracking (vrems.scvotes.sc.gov, no robots.txt), 11/3/2026 Statewide General Election (ElectionId 22596), public search form filtered by office, status Active and Associated County BEAUFORT, read 2026-10-31. The CSV export (which carries filing contact details) was not used. Other SC House contests in Beaufort County (HD-118, 120, 121, 122, 124) seen on the list but not recorded.
Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) at Town Hall gave SC-1, SD-46, HD-123. A 10x10 grid (47 points inside 'Hilton Head Island town'): SC-1, SD-46 and HD-123 on every point on the 2026/120th layers (one point fell in HD-120 on the 2024 layer). Slivers under the grid spacing could be missed.
Sitting members: senators from the CC0 legislators-current.json (senate.gov 403 per other agents, not tried); SC-1 Mace from house.gov/representatives; SD-46 and HD-123 from scstatehouse.gov member lists (robots allows member.php; disallows /images/, so no legislator photos linked). Governor McMaster carried from the us-north-charleston reading.
Robots/terms: hiltonheadislandsc.gov/robots.txt redirects to cms1files.revize.com/hiltonhead/robots.txt, which is 404 (no rules for the town site); cms1files.revize.com's own robots disallows all but documents for '*', so nothing was fetched from it. vrems.scvotes.sc.gov and geocoding.geo.census.gov have no robots.txt. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.