South Carolina judicial elections summary, 2014

South Carolina judicial elections, 2014
Overview
Total candidates:	52
Primary candidates:	18
General election candidates:	42
Incumbency
Incumbents:	32
Incumbent success rate:	97%
Competition - general election
Percent of candidates in contested races:	29%
Percent uncontested:	71%
Partisan victories
Republican	15
Democratic	22

2015 → ← 2013
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In South Carolina, the only judges elected by voters are those serving on the probate courts. In 2014, 52 candidates ran in partisan elections for 37 probate court seats statewide. Of those, 30 candidates were unopposed in the general election, while 12 faced contested races in November. Among the total candidates, 32 were incumbents.

For general election results, see: South Carolina judicial elections, 2014.

For primary election results, see: South Carolina judicial primary elections, 2014.

Interesting races

• One incumbent was unseated in 2014. Deirdre W. Edmonds, a Republican, lost her re-election bid for the Horry County Probate Court during the primary. Her challenger, Kathy G. Ward, also ran as a Republican. With no Democratic candidate in the race, Ward’s primary victory secured her the seat and ended Edmonds’s tenure on the court.
• Incumbent Robert E. Peeler was re-elected to the Edgefield County Probate Court, defeating Kevin Beck, a Libertarian candidate. Peeler secured 77.5% of the vote, while Beck received 22.2%—marking the widest margin of victory in South Carolina’s 2014 judicial elections.
• The narrowest margin in any contested judicial race occurred in the Lancaster County Probate Court race, where Judge Sandra S. Estridge won with 53.6% of the vote against challenger Jerry L. Holt, who received 46.3%—a difference of just 7.3%.

See also

• South Carolina judicial elections, 2014
• South Carolina elections
• Portal:Judicial elections
• Judicial selection in South Carolina
• South Carolina

External links

• South Carolina Secretary of State