November 8, 2016 2022 → Date 8 November 2016 Party Republican | 60.6% 36.9% Popular vote 1,241,609 | |
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Winner Tim Scott | ||
The 2016 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of South Carolina, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential 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 primaries took place on June 14.
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Incumbent Republican Senator Tim Scott won re-election to a first full term in office.
This election was only the third in U.S. history in which both major party nominees in a Senate election were African-American.
Background
Two-term Republican Senator Jim DeMint was re-elected with 61.48% of the vote in 2010. He resigned at the start of 2013 to become President of The Heritage Foundation and U.S. Representative Tim Scott of South Carolina's 1st congressional district was appointed to replace him by Governor Nikki Haley. Scott subsequently won the special election in 2014 for the remaining two years of the term. Scott is running for re-election.