1976 general · November 2, 1976

1976 South Carolina election results

Every race on South Carolina's ballot in the 1976 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races147
Changed party7
Unopposed52%76 races
Incumbents defeated4

President

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
South CarolinaJimmy Carter (D)13.0

U.S. House

D 5 · R 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SC-1Mendel J. Davis (D)37.8
SC-2Floyd Spence (R)15.7
SC-3Butler Derrick (D)Unopposed
SC-4James R. Mann (D)47.1
SC-5Ken Holland (D)3.1
SC-6John W. Jenrette Jr. (D)11.4
RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Herbert D. Morgan · Harris P. Smith · T. Garrison · M. E. McDonald (D)21.1
SD-2J. Verne Smith · Charles G. Garrett · Harry A. Chapman · Carroll Campbell · David S. Taylor (DEM)1.2
SD-3John W. Drummond (D)55.1
SD-4Horace Smith · James B. Stephen · David Turnipseed (D)4.9
SD-5Robert C. Lake Jr. · John D. Long III (D)Unopposed
SD-6Donald H. Holland · Samuel B. Mendenhall · Frank L. Roddey (D)Unopposed
SD-7Heyward McDonald · Hyman Rubin · Alex Sanders · Isadore Lourie · John Martin (D)3.8
SD-8Tom Turnipseed · William E. Knotts Jr. · Gilbert E. McMillan · Nikki Setzler (DEM)0.3Incumbent lost
SD-9John C. Lindsay · C. Anthony Harris (D)Unopposed
SD-10Edward E. Saleeby (D)Unopposed
SD-11Ralph H. Ellis · John H. Waller Jr. · Frank H. McGill · Thomas E. Smith Jr. (D)13.7
SD-12John E. Miles · John C. Land III (D)Unopposed
SD-13L. Marion Gressette · Marshall Williams (D)Unopposed
SD-14Rembert C. Dennis (D)Unopposed
SD-15James Waddell Jr. · William T. Howell (D)Unopposed
SD-16William W. Doar Jr. · Allen Carter · Thomas Dewey Wise · Arnold S. Goodstein · Thomas F. Hartnett (DEM)1.4

South Carolina House of Representatives

D 112 · R 12 · 7 changed party

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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; MIT Election Data and Science Lab