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1956 United States Senate special election in South Carolina

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Field	Value
election_name	1956 United States Senate special election in South Carolina
country	South Carolina
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1954 United States Senate election in South Carolina
previous_year	1954
next_election	1960 United States Senate election in South Carolina
next_year	1960
election_date
image_size	x150px
image1	Governor Strom Thurmond b&w crop.jpg
nominee1	Strom Thurmond
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	245,371
percentage1	100.00%
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	Thomas A. Wofford
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Strom Thurmond
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)
map_image	1956 United States Senate special election in South Carolina results map by county.svg
map_size	250px
map_caption	County results
Thurmond:

Thurmond:

The 1956 South Carolina United States Senate special election was held on November 6, 1956, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina simultaneously with the regular Senate election. The election resulted from the resignation of Senator Strom Thurmond on April 4, 1956, who was keeping a campaign pledge he had made in the 1954 election. Thurmond was unopposed in his bid to complete the remaining four years of the term. Thurmond would remain as Senator for nearly fifty years until he retired in 2003.

Democratic primary

Senator Strom Thurmond faced no opposition from South Carolina Democrats and avoided a primary election. There was a possibility that Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. might enter the race, but Thurmond was held in such high regard by the voters that there would have been no chance of defeating him. With no challenge to the remainder of the term, Thurmond did not conduct a campaign and rejoined his old law firm in Aiken until he returned to the Senate after the special election.

Election results

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References

"Supplemental Report of the Secretary of State to the General Assembly of South Carolina." Reports and Resolutions of South Carolina to the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. Volume I. Columbia, SC: 1957, pp. 8–9.

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