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1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election

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Field	Value
election_name	1902 South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial primary runoff
country	South Carolina
flag_year	1902
type	presidential
party_name	Democratic Party (United States)
previous_election	1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election
previous_year	1900
election_date
next_election	1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election
next_year	1904
image_size	x150px
image1	File:Duncan Clinch Heyward.jpg
candidate1	Duncan Heyward
party1	Democratic Party (US)
popular_vote1	50,662
percentage1	55.6%
image2	File:William Jasper Talbert.jpg
candidate2	W. Jasper Talbert
party2	Democratic Party (US)
popular_vote2	40,490
percentage2	44.4%
title	Governor
before_election	Miles Benjamin McSweeney
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Duncan Clinch Heyward
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Duncan Clinch Heyward won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 88th governor of South Carolina.

Democratic primary

The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 26 and Duncan Clinch Heyward emerged as the frontrunner. His victory against W. Jasper Talbert, a congressman of the 2nd congressional district, in the runoff on September 9 came as a surprise because Heyward was relatively unknown outside of Colleton County. Heyward, an aristocratic planter, attributed his win due to running a "clean and sincere campaign."

Candidates

Martin Frederick Ansel, former state representative from Greenville and solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit
Duncan Clinch Heyward, Walterboro rice planter
W. Jasper Talbert, U.S. Representative from Parksville
James H. Tillman, Lieutenant Governor and nephew of U.S. Senator Benjamin Tillman
W. H. Timmerman

Results

Runoff results

General election

The general election was held on November 4, 1902, and Duncan Clinch Heyward was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election.

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References

"Report of the Secretary of State to the General Assembly of South Carolina." Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. Volume II. Columbia, South Carolina: 1903, pp. 1374–1375.

References

Lander, Ernest: ''A History of South Carolina 1865-1960'', page 47. University of South Carolina Press, 1970.

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