South Carolina gubernatorial elections

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Prior to 1865, the Governor of South Carolina was chosen by the General Assembly. The constitution of 1865 provided for the voters of South Carolina to choose the governor; James Lawrence Orr was the first elected governor of South Carolina. The following is a list of gubernatorial election results for the state of South Carolina:

Contents 1 Results 2 Analysis and trivia 2.1 Firsts 2.2 Votes 2.3 Unique politicians 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Results

Year	First	Second	County Map
1865	James Lawrence Orr No party 9,928 51.9%	Wade Hampton III No party 9,186 48.1%
1868	Robert Kingston Scott Republican 69,693 75.1%	William D. Porter Democrat 23,057 24.9%
1870	Robert Kingston Scott Republican 85,071 62.3%	Richard B. Carpenter Union Reform 51,537 37.7%
1872	Franklin J. Moses, Jr. Republican 69,838 65.4%	Reuben Tomlinson Independent Republican 36,533 34.3%
1874	Daniel Henry Chamberlain Republican 80,403 53.9%	John T. Green Independent Republican 68,818 46.1%
1876	Wade Hampton III Democrat 92,261 50.3%	Daniel Henry Chamberlain Republican 91,127 49.7%
1878	Wade Hampton III Democrat 119,550 99.8%	Others No party 213 0.2%
1880	Johnson Hagood Democrat 117,432 96.4%	L.W.R. Blair Greenback-Labor 4,277 3.5%
1882	Hugh Smith Thompson Democrat 67,158 79.0%	J. Hendrix McLane Greenback-Labor 17,719 20.8%
1884	Hugh Smith Thompson Democrat 67,895 100%	Unopposed
1886	John Peter Richardson III Democrat 33,114 100%	Unopposed
1888	John Peter Richardson III Democrat 58,730 100%	Unopposed
1890	Ben Tillman Democrat 59,159 79.8%	Alexander Cheves Haskell Straightout Democrat 14,828 20.0%
1892	Ben Tillman Democrat 56,673 100%	Unopposed
1894	John Gary Evans Democrat 39,507 69.6%	Sampson Pope Independent 17,278 30.4%
1896	William Haselden Ellerbe Democrat 59,424 89.1%	Sampson Pope Reorganized Republican 4,432 6.6%
1898	William Haselden Ellerbe Democrat 28,225 100%	Unopposed
1900	Miles Benjamin McSweeney Democrat 46,457 100%	Unopposed
1902	Duncan Clinch Heyward Democrat 31,817 100%	Unopposed
1904	Duncan Clinch Heyward Democrat 51,917 100%	Unopposed
1906	Martin Frederick Ansel Democrat 30,251 100%	Unopposed
1908	Martin Frederick Ansel Democrat 61,060 100%	Unopposed
1910	Coleman Livingston Blease Democrat 30,739 100%	Unopposed
1912	Coleman Livingston Blease Democrat 44,122 100%	Unopposed
1914	Richard Irvine Manning III Democrat 34,600 100%	Unopposed
1916	Richard Irvine Manning III Democrat 60,396 100%	Unopposed
1918	Robert Archer Cooper Democrat 25,267 100%	Unopposed
1920	Robert Archer Cooper Democrat 58,050 100%	Unopposed
1922	Thomas Gordon McLeod Democrat 34,065 100%	Unopposed
1924	Thomas Gordon McLeod Democrat 53,545 100%	Unopposed
1926	John Gardiner Richards, Jr. Democrat 16,589 100%	Unopposed
1930	Ibra Charles Blackwood Democrat 17,790 100%	Unopposed
1934	Olin D. Johnston Democrat 23,177 100%	Unopposed
1938	Burnet Rhett Maybank Democrat 49,009 100%	Unopposed
1942	Olin D. Johnston Democrat 23,859 100%	Unopposed
1946	Strom Thurmond Democrat 26,520 100%	Unopposed
1950	James F. Byrnes Democrat 50,633 100%	Unopposed
1954	George Bell Timmerman, Jr. Democrat 214,204 100%	Unopposed
1958	Ernest Hollings Democrat 77,714 100%	Unopposed
1962	Donald Stuart Russell Democrat 253,704 100%	Unopposed
1966	Robert Evander McNair Democrat 255,854 58.2%	Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. Republican 184,088 41.8%
1970	John Carl West Democrat 251,151 52.1%	Albert Watson Republican 221,236 45.9%
1974	James Burrows Edwards Republican 266,109 50.9%	W.J. Bryan Dorn Democrat 248,938 47.6%
1978	Richard Riley Democrat 384,898 61.3%	Edward L. Young Republican 236,946 37.7%
1982	Richard Riley Democrat 468,787 69.8%	W. D. Workman, Jr. Republican 202,806 30.2%
1986	Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Republican 384,565 51.0%	Michael R. Daniel Democrat 361,328 47.9%
1990	Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Republican 528,831 69.5%	Theo Mitchell Democrat 212,048 27.8%
1994	David Beasley Republican 470,756 50.4%	Nick Theodore Democrat 447,002 47.9%
1998	Jim Hodges Democrat 570,070 53.3%	David Beasley Republican 484,088 45.3%
2002	Mark Sanford Republican 585,422 52.9%	Jim Hodges Democrat 521,140 47.0%
2006	Mark Sanford Republican 601,868 55.1%	Tommy Moore Democrat 489,076 44.8%
2010	To be determined	To be determined

[edit] Analysis and trivia

[edit] Firsts

• The gubernatorial election of 1865 was the first gubernatorial election of South Carolina.
• The gubernatorial election of 1868 was the first election that blacks were given the right to vote in South Carolina.
• The gubernatorial election of 1896 was the first gubernatorial election that featured the use of a primary election.
• The gubernatorial election of 1898 was the first gubernatorial election that featured the use of a runoff election.

[edit] Votes

• There have been 51 gubernatorial elections in South Carolina.
• Democrats have won 40 of the 47 (85%) elections that they nominated a candidate.
• Republicans have won 10 of the 17 (59%) elections that they nominated a candidate.
• James Lawrence Orr had the smallest majority vote in the gubernatorial election of 1865: 743.
• Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. garnered the largest majority vote in the gubernatorial election of 1990: 316,797.
• The gubernatorial election of 1926 had the lowest vote: 16,589.
• The gubernatorial election of 2002 had the largest vote: 1,107,725.

[edit] Unique politicians

• Only Duncan Clinch Heyward in the gubernatorial election of 1904 and Robert Archer Cooper in the gubernatorial election of 1920 faced no opposition in both the primary election and the general election.
• Olin D. Johnston is the only governor to be elected to nonconsecutive terms in 1934 and 1942.
• Only three governors have been defeated for reelection: Daniel Henry Chamberlain in 1876, David Beasley in 1998 and Jim Hodges in 2002.
• Coleman Livingston Blease has made the most attempts for governor (8): 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1916, 1922, 1934 and 1938. He was successful in 1910 and 1912.

[edit] See also

• Governor of South Carolina
• List of Governors of South Carolina

[edit] External links

• SCIway List of South Carolina Governors in Chronological Order

South Carolina gubernatorial elections
1865 • 1868 • 1870 • 1872 • 1874 • 1876 • 1878 • 1880 • 1882 • 1884 • 1886 • 1888 • 1890 • 1892 • 1894 • 1896 • 1898 • 1900 • 1902 • 1904 • 1906 • 1908 • 1910 • 1912 • 1914 • 1916 • 1918 • 1920 • 1922 • 1924 • 1926 • 1930 • 1934 • 1938 • 1942 • 1946 • 1950 • 1954 • 1958 • 1962 • 1966 • 1970 • 1974 • 1978 • 1982 • 1986 • 1990 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010

Governors of South Carolina

J. Rutledge • Lowndes • J. Rutledge • Mathews • Guerard • Moultrie • T. Pinckney • C. Pinckney • Moultrie • Vanderhorst • C. Pinckney • E. Rutledge • Drayton • J. Richardson • P. Hamilton • C. Pinckney • Drayton • Middleton • Alston • D. Williams • A. Pickens • Geddes • Bennett • Wilson • Manning I • Taylor • Miller • J. Hamilton • Hayne • McDuffie • Butler • Noble • Henagan • Richardson II • Hammond • Aiken • Johnson • Seabrook • Means • J. Manning • Adams • Allston • Gist • F. Pickens • Bonham • Magrath • Perry • Orr • Scott • Moses • Chamberlain • Hampton • Simpson • Jeter • Hagood • Thompson • Sheppard • Richardson III • Tillman • Evans • Ellerbe • McSweeney • Heyward • Ansel • Blease • Smith • Manning III • Cooper • Harvey • McLeod • Richards • Blackwood • Johnston • Maybank • Harley • Jefferies • Johnston • R. Williams • Thurmond • Byrnes • Timmerman • Hollings • Russell • McNair • West • Edwards • Riley • Campbell • Beasley • Hodges • Sanford