1968 general · February 6, 1968

1968 South Carolina State Senate election results, district by district

Every South Carolina State Senate district in the 1968 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

1972 general →

Races20
Changed party0
Unopposed70%14 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 43 · R 3

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Snead Schumacher · M. E. McDonald · T. Garrison (D)Unopposed
SD-2Earl E. Morris Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-3Richard W. Riley · Harry A. Chapman · Charles G. Garrett · Thomas A. Wofford (DEM)1.2
SD-4Paul M. Moore · Horace Smith · James B. Stephen (D)Unopposed
SD-5John D. Long III · Robert C. Lake Jr. (D)6.6Incumbent lost
SD-6John W. Drummond (D)40.5
SD-7Floyd Spence · Michael Laughlin · Gilbert E. McMillan (REP)0.2Incumbent lost
SD-8Lewis Wallace · J. C. Bonner (D)Unopposed
SD-9John Martin (D)Unopposed
SD-10Frank C. Owens · Hyman Rubin · William J. Brockington · Walter J. Bristow Jr. (D)2.6
SD-11Marshall Williams · L. Marion Gressette (D)Unopposed
SD-12Edgar A. Brown (D)Unopposed
SD-13James Waddell Jr. · James P. Harrelson (D)Unopposed
SD-14Rembert C. Dennis · J. Kenneth Rentiers · Robert Scarborough · Gordon H. Garrett · Allen Carter (D)1.4Incumbent lost
SD-15C. Claymon Grimes · James P. Stevens (D)Unopposed
SD-16J. Ralph Gasque · Eugene N. Zeigler · Lanue Floyd (D)Unopposed
SD-17Henry B. Richardson · James M. Morris (D)Unopposed
SD-18Donald H. Holland · Frank L. Roddey (D)Unopposed
SD-19James P. Mozingo (D)Unopposed
SD-20John C. Lindsay · C. Anthony Harris (D)Unopposed

South Carolina State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner