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South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2014

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Start date
  
November 4, 2014

55.9%
  
41.4%

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Winner
  
Nikki Haley

The 2014 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of South Carolina, concurrently with the regularly-scheduled election and special election to both of South Carolina's U.S. Senate seats, 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.

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Incumbent Republican Governor Nikki Haley ran for re-election to a second term in office. She faced Democratic State Senator Vincent Sheheen in the general election. Republican-turned-Independent Tom Ervin had been running, but he withdrew from the race and endorsed Sheheen.

Haley defeated Sheheen again in 2014, as she won nearly 56 percent of the vote to his 41 percent.

Declared

  • Nikki Haley, incumbent Governor

    • Withdrew

  • Tom Ervin, attorney, former State Representative and former circuit court judge (ran as an Independent and later dropped out of the race to endorse Vincent Sheheen)

    • Declined

  • Tom Davis, State Senator
  • Bobby Harrell, Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives
  • Curtis M. Loftis, Jr., State Treasurer
  • Glenn F. McConnell, Lieutenant Governor
  • Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Representative
  • William Walter Wilkins, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina

    • Declared

  • Vincent Sheheen, State Senator and nominee for Governor in 2010

    • Declined

  • Stephen K. Benjamin, Mayor of Columbia
  • Harry L. Ott, Jr., Minority Leader of the South Carolina House of Representatives

    • Declared

  • Steve French (Libertarian), businessman
  • Morgan Bruce Reeves (United Citizens Party), former NFL player and nominee for Governor in 2010

    • Withdrew

  • Tom Ervin (Independent), attorney, former Republican State Representative and former circuit court judge (endorsed Sheheen)

    • Declined

  • André Bauer (Independent), former Republican Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, candidate for Governor in 2010 and candidate for SC-07 in 2012

    • General election

    Haley defeated Sheheen again in 2014, as she won 55 percent of the vote to his 41 percent.

    Polling

  • ^ Poll for the South Carolina Democratic Party

    • References

    South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2014 Wikipedia
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