With 95% of all votes in South Carolina counted, the race for governor remains close, but has gone to Republican, Nikki Haley. Haley leads Democratic Rival Vincent Sheheen 51% to 47%. Polls leading up to the election gave Haley a 7-8 point lead, so the Democrat fared a bit better than many had expected. Nikki Haley will succeed fellow Republican Mark Sanford, and take office in South Carolina in January. Haley, just 38 years old, currently represents Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
The other major vote in South Carolina was for a Senate seat. The race for senate was between three main competitors. Incumbent Republican Jim Demint, Democrat, Alvin Greene, and Green Party candidate Tom Clements. With 95% of the votes tallied, Demint has 62% of them, while Greene has 28%, and Clements 9%. Demint has easily won the seat, even though all the election results in the state have not been recorded.
