2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina

2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina

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Nominee Tim Scott Joyce Dickerson
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 757,215 459,583
Percentage 61.12% 37.09%

County results
Scott:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Dickerson:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

U.S. senator before election

Tim Scott[a]
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Tim Scott
Republican

The 2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 2014, concurrently with the regular election for the other South Carolina Senate seat. The special-election Senate seat was formerly held by Republican Jim DeMint, who resigned on January 2, 2013, to become president of The Heritage Foundation.

Nikki Haley, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, announced the appointment of U.S. Representative Tim Scott to fill the seat. Scott ran in the special election and won by beating Democratic candidate and Richland County councilwoman Joyce Dickerson in the November election. Scott became the first black Senator in the state's history and the first in a former Confederate state since 1881.

The election was noted for being the second U.S. Senate election since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment and the first in a former Confederate state where both major party nominees were black.[b] This was also the first of three consecutive elections to this seat where both major party nominees were black.
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