Searches for the direct electroweak production of supersymmetric charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons in a variety of signatures with leptons and $$\mathrm{W}$$ , $$\mathrm{Z}$$ , and Higgs bosons are presented. Results are based on a sample of proton-proton collision data collected at center-of-mass energy $$\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm{TeV}$$ with the CMS detector in 2012, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 $$\,\text {fb}^\text {-1}$$ . The observed event rates are in agreement with expectations from the standard model. These results probe charginos and neutralinos with masses up to 720 $$\,\text {GeV}$$ , and sleptons up to 260 $$\,\text {GeV}$$ , depending on the model details.