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November 6, 2018
  
2022 →

Date
  
6 November 2018

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2018

Location
  
South Carolina, United States

The 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election will take place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican Governor Henry McMaster is currently running to seek election to a full term.

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Declared

  • Yancey McGill, former Democratic Lieutenant Governor and former Democratic State Senator
  • Henry McMaster, incumbent Governor
  • Tommy Pope, State Representative and candidate for SC-05 in 2017

    • Potential

  • Catherine Templeton, former Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and former Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
  • Tom Davis, State Senator
  • Jeff Duncan, U.S. Representative
  • Kirkman Finlay, State Representative
  • Curtis Loftis, State Treasurer
  • Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Representative
  • Mark Sanford, U.S. Representative and former Governor
  • Tim Scott, U.S. Senator
  • Bill Stern, real estate developer and former South Carolina Ports Authority Chairman
  • Joe Taylor, former South Carolina Secretary of Commerce
  • Alan Wilson, Attorney General

    • Declined

  • Mikee Johnson, businessman and former Chairman of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
  • Billy Wilkins, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

    • Potential

  • Steve Benjamin, Mayor of Columbia
  • Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Director of Business Development at Clemson University’s Restoration Institute and nominee for SC-01 in 2013
  • Terrence Culbreath, Mayor of Johnston
  • Brad Hutto, State Senator and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2014
  • Marlon Kimpson, State Senator
  • Gerald Malloy, State Senator
  • Thomas McElveen, State Senator
  • Russell Ott, State Representative
  • David Pascoe, Solicitor for South Carolina's 1st Circuit
  • Mandy Powers Norrell, State Representative
  • Bakari Sellers, former State Representative and nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2014
  • Vincent Sheheen, State Senator and nominee in 2010 and 2014
  • James Smith, State Representative
  • Marguerite Willis, attorney
  • Stephen Wukela, Mayor of Florence

    • Declined

  • Inez Tenenbaum, former State Superintendent of Education, former Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2004

    • References

    South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2018 Wikipedia
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