South Carolina Senate

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The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States Presidential elections.

The South Carolina Constitution of 1895 provided for each county to elect one senator for a four-year term. The election of senators was staggered so that half of the state Senate was elected every two years. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1964 for the case Reynolds v. Sims, the state Senate was reapportioned in 1966 as a temporary measure into 27 districts with 50 members for two-year terms. In 1967, the state Senate was again reapportioned, this time into 20 districts with 46 members for four-year terms. The number of districts was reduced to 16 in 1972 and in 1984, they were eliminated with the creation of single member districts.

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Affiliation Members
  Republican Party 26
  Democratic Party 20
 Total
 46
 Government Majority
 6

District Representative Party Residence Term Up
1 Thomas C. Alexander Republican
2 Larry A. Martin Republican
3 Kevin L. Bryant Republican
4 William H. O'Dell Republican
5 Lewis R. Vaughn Republican
6 Michael L. Fair Republican
7 Ralph Anderson Democrat
8 David L. Thomas Republican
9 Daniel B. Verdin III Republican
10 John W. Drummond Democrat
11 Glenn G. Reese Democrat
12 John D. Hawkins Republican
13 James H. Ritchie, Jr. Republican
14 Harvey S. Peeler, Jr. Republican
15 Robert W. Hayes, Jr. Republican
16 Chauncey K. Gregory Republican
17 Linda H. Short Democrat
18 Ronnie W. Cromer Republican
19 Kay Patterson Democrat
20 John E. Courson Republican
21 Darrell Jackson Democrat
22 Joel Lourie Democrat
23 John M. Knotts, Jr. Republican
24 W. Greg Ryberg Republican
25
26 Nikki G. Setzler Democrat
27 Vincent A. Sheheen Democrat
28 Dick Elliott Democrat
29 Gerald Malloy Democrat
30 Kent M. Williams Democrat
31 Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr. Republican
32 J. Yancey McGill Democrat
33 Luke A. Rankin Republican
34 Raymond E. Cleary III Republican
35 Phil P. Leventis Democrat
36 John C. Land III Democrat
37 Lawrence K. Grooms Republican
38 Randy Scott Republican
39 John W. Matthews, Jr. Democrat
40 C. Bradley Hutto Democrat
41 Glenn F. McConnell Republican
42 Robert Ford Democrat
43 George E. Campsen III Republican
44 Paul G. Campbell, Jr. Republican
45 Clementa C. Pinckney Democrat
46 Catherine C. Ceips Republican


Year Democratic
Party		 Republican
Party		 Independent
/ Other		 Government
Majority
1865 0 0 31 31
1868 6(a) 25 0 19
1870 5 26 1 22
1872 5 28 0 23
1874 0 26 7(b) 19
1876 15 18 0 3
1878 31 3 0 28
1880 32 2 0 30
1902-
1906		 41 0 0 41
1908 42 0 0 42
1910 43 0 0 43
1912-
1914		 44 0 0 44
1916-
1918		 45 0 0 45
1920-
1964		 46 0 0 46
1966 43 6 1 37
1968 43 3 0 40
1972 43 3 0 40
1976 43 3 0 40
1980 39 5 0 34
1984 36 10 0 26
1988 35 11 0 24
1992 30 16 0 14
1996 25 21 0 4
2000 22(c) 24(c) 0 2
2004 20 26 0 6

(a) The election of a Democrat from Abbeville was declared void and the seat remained vacant.
(b) All 7 were members of the Conservative Party of South Carolina.
(c) After the 2000 elections, the Senate was evenly split between 23 Democrats and 23 Republicans. A Democrat switched to the Republicans to break the tie.


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