Election Name: | 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina |
Country: | South Carolina |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina |
Previous Year: | 2008 |
Next Election: | 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Seats For Election: | All 6 South Carolina seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Last Election1: | 4 |
Seats1: | 5 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 753,932 |
Percentage1: | 56.21% |
Swing1: | 6.06% |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Last Election2: | 2 |
Seats2: | 1 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 543,921 |
Percentage2: | 40.55% |
Swing2: | 8.52% |
The 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. The primary elections were held on June 8.The composition of the state delegation before the election was four Republicans and two Democrats.
After the general election, the composition of the state delegation entering the 112th Congress was five Republicans and just one Democrat.
All seats were rated safe for their incumbent parties except for district 5.
United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2010[1] | |||||||
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Party | Votes | Percentage | Seats before | Seats after | +/– | ||
Republican | 753,932 | 56.21% | 4 | 5 | +1 | ||
Democratic | 543,921 | 40.55% | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
Constitution | 16,597 | 1.23% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Libertarian | 9,988 | 0.74% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Green | 7,322 | 0.65% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Other | 9,376 | 0.74% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 1,341,136 | 100.00% | 6 | 6 | — |
Results of the 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina by district:[2]
scope=col rowspan=3 | District | scope=col colspan=2 | Republican | scope=col colspan=2 | Democratic | scope=col colspan=2 | Others | scope=col colspan=2 | Total | scope=col rowspan=3 | Result | ||||
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scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % |
152,755 | 65.37% | 67,008 | 28.67% | 13,932 | 5.96% | 233,695 | 100.00% | Republican hold | |||||||
138,861 | 53.47% | 113,625 | 43.76% | 7,186 | 2.77% | 259,672 | 100.00% | Republican hold | |||||||
126,235 | 62.46% | 66,497 | 32.90% | 9,376 | 4.64% | 202,108 | 100.00% | Republican hold | |||||||
137,586 | 63.45% | 62,438 | 28.80% | 16,814 | 7.75% | 216,838 | 100.00% | Republican hold | |||||||
District 5 | 125,834 | 55.12% | 102,296 | 44.81% | 156 | 0.07% | 228,286 | 100.00% | Republican gain | ||||||
72,661 | 36.40% | 125,459 | 62.86% | 1,470 | 0.74% | 199,590 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | |||||||
Total | 753,932 | 56.26% | 537,323 | 40.09% | 48,934 | 3.65% | 1,340,189 | 100.00% | . |
See also: South Carolina's 1st congressional district. Incumbent Republican Congressman Henry E. Brown Jr. had been in office since 2001 and was retiring. The open seat was contested by Democrat Ben Frasier, Republican Tim Scott, Green Robert Dobbs, Libertarian Keith Blandford, Working Families Rob Groce, United Citizens Milton Elmer "Mac" McCullough Jr. and Independence Party Jimmy Wood. Scott defeated Paul Thurmond in the primary runoff election.[3]
! style="background:#111; width:2px;"| | Working Families | Rob Groce | align="right" |4,148 | align="right" |1.77|- ! style="background-color:#DDDDDD; width: 2px" | | Independence | Jimmy Wood | align="right" |2,489 | align="right" |1.07|-! style="background:#f09; width:2px;"| | United Citizens | Milton Elmer McCullough Jr.|Milton Elmer "Mac" McCullough Jr. | align="right" |1,013 | align="right" |0.43|-
See also: South Carolina's 2nd congressional district. Incumbent Republican Congressman Joe Wilson had been in office since 2001. Wilson defeated Democratic nominee Iraq War Veteran Rob Miller, Libertarian Eddie McCain, and the Constitution Party's Marc Beaman.[4]
See also: South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. Incumbent Republican Congressman J. Gresham Barrett had been in office since 2003, but decided to retire to run for governor. The open seat was contested by Republican nominee Jeff Duncan, Democratic / Working Families nominee Jane Ballard Dyer, and Constitution Party nominee John Dalen. Duncan had come in second in the Republican Primary at 25%, but beat Richard Cash in the runoff 51% to 49%.[5]
See also: South Carolina's 4th congressional district. This was an open seat. Incumbent Republican Congressman Bob Inglis had been in office since 2005, but he lost to Trey Gowdy in the primary election. Trey Gowdy would go on to defeat the Democratic nominee Paul Corden, Green Party's Faye Walters, Libertarian Rick Mahler, and the Constitution Party's Dave Edwards.
See also: South Carolina's 5th congressional district. Democratic incumbent John Spratt was defeated by Republican Mick Mulvaney.
See also: South Carolina's 6th congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn had been in office since 1993. He won re-election against Republican Jim Pratt and Nammu Y. Muhammad of the Green Party.