South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1994

The 1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The contest featured two politicians from the Upstate and David Beasley narrowly defeated Nick Theodore to become the 113th governor of South Carolina.

Democratic Primary

The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 9, 1994. Lieutenant Governor Nick Theodore, from the Upstate, emerged as the winner of the runoff election on August 23 against popular Charleston mayor Joe Riley.

General Election

The general election was held on November 8, 1994 and David Beasley was elected as the next governor of South Carolina in the closest election percentage wise since the disputed election of 1876. Turnout was higher than the previous gubernatorial election because of the competitive nature of the race between the two parties.

Election box candidate with party link
party = Republican Party (United States)
candidate = David Beasley
votes = 470,756
percentage = 50.4
change = -19.1 Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Nick Theodore
votes = 447,002
percentage = 47.9
change = +20.1 Election box candidate
party = U.S. Taxpayers Party
candidate = John R. Peeples, Jr.
votes = 8,003
percentage = 0.9
change = +0.9Election box candidate
party = New Alliance Party
candidate = Wayne B. Griffin
votes = 5,875
percentage = 0.6
change = +0.6Election box candidate
party = "No party"
candidate = Write-Ins
votes = 2,214
percentage = 0.2
change = -0.2Election box majority
votes = 23,754
percentage = 2.5
change = -39.2Election box turnout
votes = 933,850
percentage = 62.3
change = +6.3
colspan=5 |Republican hold
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frame|300px|none|1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election map, by percentile by county.

ee also

*Governor of South Carolina
*List of Governors of South Carolina
*South Carolina gubernatorial elections

References

*cite book | last = State Election Commission | title = South Carolina Election Report 1994-1995 | year = 1995 | publisher = The Commission | location = Columbia, SC | pages = p. 26

External links

* [http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/beasley.html SCIway Biography of Governor David Muldrow Beasley]

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