United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1960

The 1960 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 8, 1960 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond easily won the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.

Democratic primary

Senator Strom Thurmond was opposed by Columbia lawyer Robert Beverly Herbert in the Democratic primary. Herbert argued that Thurmond's means of opposing the civil rights legislation in the 1950's was unconstructive and instead if he were in the Senate he would express to the country how the blacks were benefited by white rule. Herbert's campaign was little more than token opposition as Thurmond racked up a huge victory and won another term because he did not have an opponent in the general election.

Election results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (United States)
candidate = Strom Thurmond
votes = 330,167
percentage = 100.0
change = 0.0 Election box candidate
party = "No party"
candidate = Write-Ins
votes = 102
percentage = 0.0
change = 0.0Election box majority
votes = 330,065
percentage = 100.0
change = 0.0Election box turnout
votes = 330,269
percentage = 55.4
change = +23.2
colspan=5 |Democratic hold
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frame|300px|none|1960 South Carolina U.S. Senate election map, by percentile by county.

ee also

*List of United States Senators from South Carolina
*United States Senate elections, 1960
*United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1960

References

*cite book | last = Bass | first = Jack | coauthors=Marilyn W. Thompson | title = Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond | year = 1998 | publisher = Longstreet | pages = p. 189