2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina

An election happened on November 3, 2020, to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of South Carolina. The three people in the election were Lindsey Graham (Republican Party), Jaime Harrison (Democratic Party) and Bill Bledsoe (Constitution Party). Lindsey Graham won reelection for the fourth time. Jamie Harrison got more money for his campaign than any other politician.

2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina

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Nominee Lindsey Graham Jaime Harrison
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,369,137 1,110,828
Percentage 54.4% 44.2%

2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina results map by county.svg
County results
Graham:      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
Harrison:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%

U.S. Senator before election

Lindsey Graham
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Lindsey Graham
Republican

There was two primary elections held on June 9, 2020. Lindsey Graham easily won the Republican Party primary and Jamie Harrison won the Democratic Party primary election.[1]

Republican Party primary

Republican primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Lindsey Graham (incumbent) 317,512 67.69%
Republican Michael LaPierre 79,932 17.04%
Republican Joe Reynolds 43,029 9.17%
Republican Dwayne "Duke" Buckner 28,570 6.09%
Total votes 469,043 100.00%

Democratic Party primary

Jamie Harrison won the primary and Gloria Bromell Tinubu, William Stone, and Justin Wooton all stopped their race before the primary.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Results

United States Senate election in South Carolina, 2020[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Lindsey Graham (incumbent) 1,369,137 54.44% +0.17%
Democratic Jaime Harrison 1,110,828 44.17% +5.39%
Constitution Bill Bledsoe 32,845 1.30% N/A
Write-in 2,294 0.09% -0.29%
Total votes 2,515,104 100.00%
Republican hold

2020 United States Senate Election In South Carolina Media

References

  1. Amber Phillips (September 16, 2020), "The Senate seats most likely to flip in November", Washingtonpost.com, archived from the original on September 16, 2020
  2. "U.S. SENATE - REP". Secretary of State of South Carolina. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  3. Barton, Tom (May 28, 2019). SC Democrat Jaime Harrison launches US Senate campaign to challenge Lindsey Graham. https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article230902479.html. Retrieved May 29, 2019. 
  4. Marchant, Bristow (April 28, 2019). Lindsey Graham gets second Democratic challenger in Senate race. https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article229667249.html. Retrieved April 29, 2019. 
  5. "COMMITTEE DETAILS FOR COMMITTEE ID C00689042". docquery.fec.gov.
  6. "William Stone (South Carolina)". Ballotpedia.
  7. "Home | Justin Wooton for Senate 2020". Senate Page. Archived from the original on 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  8. "Justin Wooton". Ballotpedia.
  9. "2020 Statewide General Election Night Reporting - U.S. Senate". South Carolina Election Commission. November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.