1992 United States Senate election in South Carolina

1992 United States Senate election in South Carolina

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Nominee Ernest Hollings Thomas F. Hartnett
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 591,030 554,175
Percentage 50.07% 46.95%

County results
Hollings:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Hartnett:      50–60%      60–70%

U.S. senator before election

Ernest Hollings
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Ernest Hollings
Democratic

The 1992 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 3, 1992. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings won reelection to his sixth (his fifth full) term. Apart from Hollings's first election to the Senate in 1966, this was the closest election of Hollings's Senate career. This is the last time that a Senate candidate was voted for and was elected to the United States Senate in South Carolina at the same time that a presidential candidate of a different political party was voted for in South Carolina and had won South Carolina.