South Carolina 2003 Off Year Election

The Green Papers: South Carolina 2003 Off Year Election

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South Carolina

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. 108^th 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.

108^th House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2002, 2004. No Term Limit. 108^th 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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