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Alberto Fernandez
Alberto Fernandez was a 2015 Republican special election candidate for District 45 of the South Carolina State Senate.[1]
Elections
2015
A special election for the position of South Carolina State Senate District 45 was called for October 20. A primary election took place on September 1. A primary runoff election took place on September 15. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was July 13.[1]
The seat was vacant following the death of Clementa Pinckney (D) on June 17, 2015, in a mass shooting at an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.[2]
Margie Bright Matthews, R. Keith Horton, Richmond Truesdale, Korey Williams, John E. Washington, Kenneth Hodges, William Bowman, Chauncey Barnwell, Sheree Darien, Libbie Henry Green and Kent Fletcher faced off in the Democratic primary. Since no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters, Bright Matthews and Hodges, met in a runoff election, which Bright Matthews won.[3] Alberto Fernandez was unopposed in the Republican primary. Leilani Bessinger withdrew from the race before the Republican primary.[1][4] Bright Matthews defeated Fernandez in the special election.[5]
| South Carolina State Senate, District 45, Special election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Margie Bright Matthews |
88.5% | 5,763 | |
| Republican | Alberto Fernandez | 11.5% | 750 | |
| Write-ins | Write-ins | 0% | 2 | |
| Total Votes | 6,515 | |||
| South Carolina State Senate, District 45, Democratic Runoff, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Margie Bright Matthews |
56.2% | 3,908 | |
| Democratic | Kenneth Hodges | 43.8% | 3,042 | |
| Total Votes | 6,950 | |||
| South Carolina State Senate, District 45 Democratic Primary, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|
Margie Bright Matthews (advanced to runoff) |
36.9% | 2,622 |
| Kenneth Hodges (advanced to runoff) |
34.7% | 2,467 |
| Korey Williams | 9.3% | 663 |
| Kent Fletcher | 4.4% | 316 |
| William Bowman | 4% | 288 |
| Sheree Darien | 3.6% | 253 |
| R. Keith Horton | 3.4% | 245 |
| John E. Washington | 1.4% | 99 |
| Libbie Henry Green | 1.1% | 78 |
| Chauncey Barnwell | 0.7% | 53 |
| Richmond Truesdale | 0.4% | 29 |
| Total Votes | 7,113 | |
Additional reading
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Alberto + Fernandez + South + Carolina + Senate"
See also
- South Carolina State Senate
- South Carolina State Senate District 45
- State legislative elections, 2015
- South Carolina State Legislature
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 scvotes.org, "State Senate District 45 Special Election," accessed June 26, 2015
- ↑ NBC News, "'This Is a Hate Crime': Nine People Killed at Historic South Carolina Church," June 18, 2015
- ↑ scvotes.org, "State Senate District 45 Democratic Primary Runoff," accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ scvotes.org, "State Senate District 45 Democratic Primary," accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ South Carolina State Election Commission, "State Senate District 45 Special Election," accessed October 21, 2015
