2000 South Carolina Senate election

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2000 South Carolina Senate election
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November 7, 2000
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All 46 seats in the South Carolina Senate
24 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Glenn F. McConnell John W. Drummond
Party Republican Democratic
Leader since January 1996
Leader's seat District 41 District 10
Last election 21 25
Seats after 24[a] 22
Seat change Increase 3 Decrease 3
President pro tempore before election

John W. Drummond
Democratic

 Elected President pro tempore

Glenn F. McConnell
Republican

The 2000 South Carolina Senate election was held on November 7, 2000, to determine which party would control the South Carolina Senate for the following four years in the 114th South Carolina General Assembly. All 46 seats in the South Carolina Senate were up for election. Prior to the election, 25 seats were held by Democrats and 21 seats were held by Republicans. The general election saw Republicans flip 2 seats, thereby leaving the Senate evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, until Democrat J. Verne Smith of District 5 switched parties, giving Republicans a majority in the State Senate for the first time since 1878.[1]

Republicans

  1. District 12: John R. Russell retired.
  2. District 13: Charles Tyrone Courtney retired after being convicted on federal charges of bank fraud, mail fraud and making false statements in a loan application in June 2000.[2]

Democrats

  1. District 45: McKinley Washington Jr. retired.

Defeated incumbents

In general

Democrats

  1. District 9: James Edward Bryan Jr. lost re-election to Danny Verdin.

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. District 37, 2.50%
  2. District 33, 8.67%
  3. District 9, 8.99% (gain)

Results

Notes

References

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