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1914 United States Senate election in South Carolina

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Field	Value
election_name	1914 Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina
country	South Carolina
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1909 United States Senate election in South Carolina
previous_year	1909
next_election	1920 United States Senate election in South Carolina
next_year	1920
election_date	August 25, 1914
image_size	x150px
image1	File:Senator Ellison DuRant Smith.jpg
nominee1	Ellison D. Smith
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	72,256
percentage1	54.66%
image2	File:Coleman L Blease (cropped).jpg
nominee2	Cole Blease
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	55,908
percentage2	42.29%
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	Ellison D. Smith
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Ellison D. Smith
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1914 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 3, 1914, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. It was the first election in South Carolina in which the voters were able to choose the candidate in the general election. Incumbent Democratic Senator Ellison D. Smith won the Democratic primary and defeated nominal opposition in the general election to win another six-year term.

Democratic primary

Coleman Livingston Blease, Governor of South Carolina from 1910 to 1914, was barred from seeking another term by the South Carolina constitution. He wanted to continue holding a public office so he challenged incumbent Senator Ellison D. Smith in the Democratic primary election for U.S. Senator. However, the voters were tired of Blease and he and those allied with him suffered defeat in the 1914 Democratic primaries on August 25.

General election campaign

Since the end of Reconstruction in 1877, the Democratic Party dominated the politics of South Carolina and its statewide candidates were never seriously challenged. Smith did not campaign for the general election as there was no chance of defeat.

Results

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References

"Report of the Secretary of State to the General Assembly of South Carolina. Part II." Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. Volume IV. Columbia, SC: 1915, p. 339.

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