The Green Papers: South Carolina 2003 Off Year Election
 
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Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:6(1.38% of 435)
2000 Census:4,025,061 (1.43% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):2,977,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):2,157,006
Capital:Columbia
 

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South Carolina State and Local Government


Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Republican Governor Mark Sanford
First elected: 2002
Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
The current Governor is NOT affected by a term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. (Beginning in 2018, the Lieutenant Governor will be elected on same ticket with the Governor.)

  Republican Andre Bauer
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Republican Mark Hammond
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Republican Henry McMaster
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Democrat Grady L. Patterson
First elected: 1966 to fill the vacant office; re-elected: 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Comptroller General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Republican Richard A. Eckstrom
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Adjutant General  4 year term, Final Election Cycle: 2002. The South Carolina Constitution was amended in 2015 to provide for the appointment of the Adjutant General by the Governor with advice and consent of the State Senate. The Adjutant General is no longer an elected office.

  Republican Stan Spears
First elected: 1994; re-elected: 1998, 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Commissioner of Agriculture  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Republican Charles "Charlie" Sharpe
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Superintendent of Education  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

  Democrat Inez Tenenbaum
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 108th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Class 3 Democrat Senator Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings
First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1966 [held to fill vacancy caused by the death of Senator Olin D. Johnston (Democrat): 18 April 1965- which Donald S. Russell (Democrat) had been appointed by Governor Robert E. McNair (Democrat) to fill, 22 April 1965 (Russell had resigned as Governor on 22 April 1965 allowing Lieutenant Governor McNair to succeed to the office of Governor, after which McNair appointed Russell to the Senate)]; elected to full term: 1968; re-elected: 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Open Seat - 4 August 2003: Senator Hollings, 81, announced that he will retire at the end of his current term.

108th House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2002, 2004. No Term Limit. 108th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
4 Republicans (4 Undetermined);
2 Democrats (2 Undetermined)

CD 1 Republican Congressman Henry E. Brown
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

CD 2 Republican Congressman A. G. "Joe" Wilson
First Elected 18 December 2001 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by the death of Floyd Spence.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

CD 3 Republican Congressman J. Gresham Barrett
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

CD 4 Republican Congressman Jim DeMint
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

CD 5 Democrat Congressman John Spratt
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

CD 6 Democrat Congressman James E. "Jim" Clyburn
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004

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