United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 2014
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The 2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 2014, concurrently with the 6-year South Carolina Senate seat election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The seat was formerly held by Republican Jim DeMint, who resigned on January 1, 2013. Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina, announced the appointment of U.S. Representative Tim Scott to fill the seat. Scott ran in the special election and won by beating Democratic councilwoman Joyce Dickerson in the November general election. This was only the second Senate election since the Seventeenth Amendment (after Illinois in 2004) in which both major party nominees were African American, the third being the 2016 Senate election in which Scott also ran.
Incumbent Jim DeMint announced on December 6, 2012 that he would resign the Senate seat effective January 1, 2013, to become the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina, appointed a replacement to fill the seat until the special election. Haley indicated that she would not appoint a "placeholder" to the seat, but would appoint someone who would stand in a 2014 special election to serve the remaining two years of DeMint's term.
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