United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 2014

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See also: South Carolina elections, 2014
United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 2014
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  Tim Scott, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg No image.svg
Nominee Tim Scott Joyce Dickerson
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 757,215 459,583
Percentage 61.1% 37.1%
South Carolina Senate Special Election Results by County, 2014.svg
County results
U.S. senator before election

Tim Scott
Republican

 Elected U.S. Senator

Tim Scott
Republican

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 2014, concurrently with the 6-year South Carolina Senate seat election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

The seat was formerly held by Republican Jim DeMint, who resigned on January 1, 2013. Nikki Haley, the 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 councilwoman Joyce Dickerson in the November general election. This was only the second Senate election since the Seventeenth Amendment (after Illinois in 2004) in which both major party nominees were African American.

Background

Incumbent Jim DeMint announced on December 6, 2012 that he would resign the Senate seat effective January 1, 2013, to become the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.[1] Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina, appointed a replacement to fill the seat until the special election.[2] Haley indicated that she would not appoint a "placeholder" to the seat, but would appoint someone who would stand in a 2014 special election to serve the remaining two years of DeMint's term.[3]

Potential replacements

Congressman Tim Scott was chosen to replace Senator Jim DeMint, following his announced resignation.

According to sources close to Governor Haley, as of December 11, 2012, she had narrowed the list of potential appointees down to five: U.S. Representatives Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy, former South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, former First Lady of South Carolina Jenny Sanford, and Catherine Templeton, who heads the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.[4] Other politicians mentioned as possible replacements for DeMint included U.S. Representative Mick Mulvaney,[5] South Carolina Representative Nathan Ballentine, former U.S. Representative Gresham Barrett, U.S. Representative Joe Wilson, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, former Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins, former South Carolina Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson, and Haley's deputy chief of staff Tedd Pitts.[6] Comedian Stephen Colbert, a South Carolina native, expressed interest in being appointed the seat, asking his fans to tweet Haley that she should appoint him.[7] Chad Walldorf, the owner of the Sticky Fingers restaurant chain, had also been mentioned as a potential placeholder.[8]

A Public Policy Polling poll released on December 10, 2012, which asked respondents who they wanted to replace DeMint, showed Colbert with the highest total. Colbert had support at 20 percent, followed by Scott at 15 percent, Gowdy at 14 percent, and Sanford at 11 percent.[9] Haley said that she would not appoint Colbert to the seat.[10]

On December 17 2012, Haley announced that she would appoint Scott to DeMint's seat following his resignation.[11]

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Republican primary results[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tim Scott 276,147 89.98
Republican Randall Young 30,741 10.02
Total votes 306,888 100

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

Declined

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Joyce
Dickerson		 Sidney
Moore		 Harry
Pavilack		 Undecided
Clemson University May 26–June 2, 2014 400 ± 6% 11% 7% 3% 79%

Results

Democratic primary results[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Joyce Dickerson 72,874 65.39
Democratic Sidney Moore 26,310 23.61
Democratic Harry Pavilack 11,886 11.06
Total votes 111,437 100

Independent and Third Parties

Candidates

Declared

Removed from ballot

General election

Endorsements

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Tim
Scott (R)		 Joyce
Dickerson (D)		 Other Undecided
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 2014 1,566 ± 4% 57% 28% 0% 15%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 2014 2,663 ± 2% 54% 31% 0% 14%
Winthrop University September 21–28, 2014 1,082 ± 3% 52.4% 31.8% 1.9%[35] 13.8%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 2014 833 ± 5% 54% 33% 0% 13%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 2014 1,180 ± 5.4% 52% 40% 2% 9%
Rasmussen Reports July 9–10, 2014 750 ± 4% 53% 31% 6% 11%

Results

General election results[36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Tim Scott (incumbent) 757,215 61.12% -0.36%
Democratic Joyce Dickerson 459,583 37.09% +9.44%
Independent Jill Bossi 21,652 1.75%
Other Write-Ins 532 0.04% -1.62%
Majority 297,632 24.03% -9.80%
Turnout 1,238,982 43.00% -7.12%
Republican hold Swing

See also

References

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External links

Official campaign websites
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