This is an article about the electoral history of Henry McMaster.
Henry McMaster, a member of the Republican party, is the 117th Governor of South Carolina and assumed office January 24, 2017. He was elected the Attorney General of South Carolina, serving from 2003-2011, and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 2014, serving from 2015-2017. Upon the resignation of Nikki Haley, McMaster became governor. In 2018, he was elected to a full term and he sought and he won reelection in the 2022 election. Additionally, he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1986, lieutenant governor in 1990, and governor in 2010.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Ernest Hollings (incumbent) | 463,354 | 63.10% | |
Republican | Henry McMaster | 261,394 | 35.50% | |
Total votes | 724,748 | 100 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Nick Theodore (incumbent) | 440,884 | 58.75% | |
Republican | Henry McMaster | 309,038 | 41.19% | |
Total votes | 749,922 | 100 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster | 601,931 | 55.48% | |
Democratic | Stephen K. Benjamin | 482,560 | 44.48% | |
Total votes | 1,084,491 | 100 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 779,453 | 99.22% | |
None | Write-ins | 6,107 | 0.78% | |
Total votes | 785,560 | 100 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Nikki Haley | 206,326 | 48.86% | |
Republican | Gresham Barrett | 91,824 | 21.75% | |
Republican | Henry McMaster | 71,494 | 16.93% | |
Republican | Andre Bauer | 52,607 | 12.46% | |
Total votes | 422,251 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster | 131,546 | 43.63% | |
Republican | Pat McKinney | 73,134 | 21.75% | |
Republican | Mike Campbell | 72,204 | 23.95% | |
Republican | Ray Moore | 24,335 | 8.07% | |
Total votes | 301,219 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster | 85,301 | 63.58% | |
Republican | Mike Campbell | 48,863 | 36.42% | |
Total votes | 134,164 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster | 726,821 | 58.75% | ||
Democratic | Bakari Sellers | 508,807 | 41.13% | ||
none | Write-ins | 1,514 | 0.12% | ||
Total votes | 1,237,142 | 100 | |||
Republican gain from Democratic |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 155,072 | 42.3% | |
Republican | John Warren | 102,006 | 27.8% | |
Republican | Catherine Templeton | 78,432 | 21.4% | |
Republican | Kevin L. Bryant | 24,699 | 6.7% | |
Republican | Yancey McGill | 6,349 | 1.7% | |
Total votes | 366,558 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 183,820 | 53.6% | |
Republican | John Warren | 158,921 | 46.4% | |
Total votes | 342,741 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 921,342 | 53% | |
Democratic | James E. Smith Jr. | 784,182 | 46% | |
Total votes | 1,705,524 | 100 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 306,216 | 83% | |
Republican | Harrison Musselwhite | 61,473 | 17% | |
Total votes | 367,689 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Henry McMaster (incumbent) | 988,501 | 58% | ||
Democratic | Joe Cunningham | 692,691 | 41% | ||
Libertarian | Bruce Reeves | 20,826 | 1% | ||
Total votes | 1,703,192 | 100% | |||
Republican hold | |||||
Henry Dargan McMaster is an American politician and attorney serving as the 117th governor of South Carolina since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 50th Attorney General of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011 and the 91st lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 2015 to 2017 under Governor Nikki Haley.
The 1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Initially considered a longshot candidate, Republican James B. Edwards defeated Democrat W. J. Bryan Dorn with a narrow majority of the vote.
The 2002 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 2002 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Mark Sanford, the Republican nominee, defeated incumbent Democratic Governor Jim Hodges to become the 115th governor of South Carolina. Hodges became only the third incumbent governor and the first Democratic governor in South Carolina history to lose reelection.
The 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Republican Governor Mark Sanford was term limited and unable to seek re-election. Primary elections took place on June 8, 2010, and a runoff election, as was necessary on the Republican side, was held two weeks later on June 22.
John Yancey McGill is an American politician from South Carolina. He was a member of the state Senate from 1989 to 2014. He served as the 90th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from June 2014 to January 2015. He was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Carolina, until the appointment of Brian J. Gaines as Comptroller General by Governor Henry McMaster in 2023.
The 1986 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 4, 1986 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings easily defeated Republican challenger Henry McMaster to win his fifth term. This is also the last US Senate election in South Carolina where the Democrat won with a double-digit margin. McMaster would much later be elected Governor in 2018.
John L. Scott Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the South Carolina Legislature from 1991 until his death. Scott was a small business owner in Columbia, South Carolina.
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.
Curtis M. Loftis Jr. is an American politician, businessman and philanthropist. He currently serves as the Treasurer of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Loftis has held elective office since 2010.
Elections in Alabama are authorized under the Alabama State Constitution, which establishes elections for the state level officers, cabinet, and legislature, and the election of county-level officers, including members of school boards.
Brian S. King is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Utah House of Representatives from the 23rd district. Before redistricting following the 2020 Census, he represented the 28th district since January 1, 2009. In April 2024, he became the Utah Democratic Party's nominee for Governor.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 4, 2014. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as both United States Senate seats, and all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 6, 2018, in 36 states and three territories. These elections formed part of the 2018 United States elections. Other coinciding elections were the 2018 United States Senate elections and the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections.
Kirkman Finlay III is an American politician. He is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 75th District, serving since 2012. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican Governor Henry McMaster, who took office after Nikki Haley resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, ran for election to a full term. The primary was held on June 12, with the Democrats nominating State Representative James E. Smith Jr. McMaster failed to win a majority of the vote, and then defeated John Warren in the Republican runoff on June 26. In the general election, McMaster defeated Smith, winning election to a full term.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2022, in 36 states and three territories. As most governors serve four-year terms, the last regular gubernatorial elections for all but two of the seats took place in the 2018 U.S. gubernatorial elections. The gubernatorial elections took place concurrently with several other federal, state, and local elections, as part of the 2022 midterm elections.
Joseph Kendrick Cunningham is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. The district includes much of South Carolina's share of the Atlantic Coast, from Charleston to Hilton Head Island.
Pamela Sue Evette is an American politician and businesswoman and the 93rd lieutenant governor of South Carolina since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was the CEO of Quality Business Solutions in Upstate South Carolina before her election as lieutenant governor. She is the first lieutenant governor to be elected on the same ticket as the governor. She has been in office since January 9, 2019, when Henry McMaster began his first elected term as governor.
The 2022 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican Governor Henry McMaster ran for re-election for a second full term in office and secured the Republican nomination in the June 14 primary. Joe Cunningham, former United States Representative from South Carolina's 1st congressional district, was the Democratic nominee. McMaster won the general election with 58% of the vote — a larger margin than in 2018.
The 2022 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2022 Illinois general election. Gubernatorial candidates ran on tickets with candidates for lieutenant governor. The incumbent governor and lieutenant governor, first-term Democrats J. B. Pritzker and Juliana Stratton, sought re-election together against Republican nominees Illinois State Senator Darren Bailey and his running mate Stephanie Trussell.