South Carolina 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: South Carolina 2005 Off Year Elections

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South Carolina
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	8	(1.49% of 538)
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



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

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

Class 3	Republican	Senator Jim DeMint • First elected: 2004. (also served in U.S. House- first elected: 1998; re-elected: 2000, 2002) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

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 unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

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

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 4 Republican (4 Undetermined); 2 Democratic (2 Undetermined)

CD 1	Republican	Congressman Henry E. Brown • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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 7 November 2006

CD 3	Republican	Congressman J. Gresham Barrett • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4	Republican	Congressman Bob Inglis • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5	Democratic	Congressman John Spratt • First elected: 1982 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6	Democratic	Congressman James E. "Jim" Clyburn • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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

	Republican	Secretary of State Mark Hammond • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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

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

Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Democratic	Treasurer 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	Comptroller General Richard A. Eckstrom • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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

	Republican	Adjutant General 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	Interim Agriculture Commissioner Hugh E. Weathers • Named Interim Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of South Carolina on 14 September 2004 by Governor Mark Sanford upon the suspension of Republican Agriculture Commissioner Charles "Charlie" Sharpe (first elected in 2002). • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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

	Democratic	Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

	• Constitution
	• Democratic
	• Green
	• Libertarian
	• Not readily classifiable
	• Republican