Filing deadline report: Busy primary season in South Carolina
April 2, 2014
Columbia, South Carolina: Nine state executive positions are up for election in 2014 in the state of South Carolina: governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, comptroller general, superintendent of education, commissioner of agriculture and adjutant general.
The primary election is scheduled for June 10, 2014. A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. South Carolina utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary. Voters must take an oath affirming that they have not voted in another party's primary.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Two incumbents, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell and Superintendent Mick Zais, are retiring. The other seven incumbents are running for re-election. They are:
- Governor Nikki Haley
- Attorney General Michael Alan Wilson
- Secretary of State Mark Hammond
- Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Jr.
- Comptroller Richard Eckstrom
- Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers
- Adjutant General Robert E. Livingston, Jr.
On Sunday, March 30, the filing period for primary candidates and candidates for nonpartisan offices came to a close. The following list of candidates is current as of March 31, 2014.
A total of 39 candidates filed for the 9 offices - 25 Republicans, 9 Democrats, 2 from the United Citizens Party, 1 Libertarian and 2 other independents.
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Governor
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Lieutenant Governor
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Attorney General
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Secretary of State
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Treasurer
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Comptroller General
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Adjutant General
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Superintendent
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Agriculture Commissioner
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See also
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- South Carolina elections, 2014
- South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2014
- South Carolina Lieutenant Gubernatorial election, 2014
- South Carolina attorney general election, 2014
- South Carolina secretary of state election, 2014
- South Carolina down ballot state executive elections, 2014
Footnotes
- ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed September 24, 2024
- ↑ South Carolina Legislature,"South Carolina Code of Laws Unannotated § 7-9-10," accessed September 24, 2024
- ↑ Lexington County Chronicle and The Dispatch-News, "Will Governor Haley survive 2014 gubernatorial race?" August 16, 2012
- ↑ The Associated Press via MyrtleBeachOnline, "Gov Haley names co-chairs for possible run in 2014," February 19, 2013
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 South Carolina Election Commission, "Candidate Tracking," March 31, 2014 Cite error: Invalid
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedpandc - ↑ The State, "Sellers to run for lieutenant governor," June 4, 2014
- ↑ WISTV.com, "Bakari Sellers forms committee for lt. gov. run," June 6, 2013
- ↑ GoUpstate, "Retired Charleston developer to run for lieutenant governor," October 15, 2013 (dead link)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 South Carolina Election Commission, "Candidate Tracking," March 27, 2014
- ↑ The State, "ELECTION 2014: Parnell Diggs to run for Attorney General," January 22, 2014
- ↑ The State, "Democratic political operative to challenge Hammond for SC secretary of state," February 18, 2014
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 The State, "ELECTION 2014 (updated): Who's filed for statewide, State House, Congressional offices," March 27, 2014
- ↑ The Island Packet, "Former Zais employee to seek Democratic nomination for state schools chief," September 23, 2013
- ↑ WISTV, "Rep. Patrick running for state superintendent," January 22, 2014
- ↑ WISTV, "Another Republican announces run for SC Education Superintendent," January 22, 2014
- ↑ WISTV, "2nd Republican jumps into SC superintendent's race," January 22, 2014
- ↑ The Post and Courier, "Another contender jumps into the race for Superintendent of Education," February 7, 2014
- ↑ The State, "Exclusive: Sally Atwater, widow of GOP operative, to run for SC education chief," February 7, 2014
- ↑ GoUpstate, "Mick Zais' deputy to enter GOP race," February 7, 2014 (dead link)
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