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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Richard Quinn, Jr. | 72% | |||
Rita Allison | 71% | |||
SC | State Senate - 5 | Tom Corbin | Republican | 71% |
Jerry Govan, Jr. | 71% | |||
Jenny Horne | 71% | |||
SC | State House - 29 | Dennis Moss | Republican | 71% |
Glenn Reese | 71% | |||
SC | State House - 67 | Murrell Smith, Jr. | Republican | 71% |
Bill Crosby | 70% | |||
Kirkman Finlay III | 70% | |||
Peter McCoy, Jr. | 70% | |||
Joseph Neal | 70% | |||
Donna Wood Hicks | 70% | |||
Kenneth Bingham | 69% | |||
James Merrill | 69% | |||
Harold Mitchell, Jr. | 69% | |||
SC | State Senate - 4 | Mike Gambrell | Republican | 68% |
Chip Limehouse III | 68% | |||
McLain Toole | 68% | |||
Grady Brown | 67% | |||
SC | State Senate - 46 | Tom Davis | Republican | 67% |
Jonathon Hill | 67% | |||
SC | State House - 60 | Phillip Lowe | Republican | 67% |
Mike Ryhal | 67% | |||
Joe Daning | 66% | |||
H. Lucas | 66% | |||
Edward Southard | 66% | |||
SC | State House - 1 | William Whitmire | Republican | 66% |
Mike Forrester | 65% | |||
SC | State House - 73 | Chris Hart | Democratic | 65% |
Robert Riley | 65% | |||
Mike Anthony | 64% | |||
SC | State House - 83 | Bill Hixon | Republican | 64% |
Ralph Kennedy, Jr. | 64% | |||
Don Wells | 64% | |||
SC | State House - 11 | Craig Gagnon | Republican | 63% |
SC | State House - 98 | Chris Murphy | Republican | 63% |
SC | U.S. House - 5 | Ralph Norman, Jr. | Republican | 63% |
SC | State House - 86 | Bill Taylor | Republican | 63% |
Gary Simrill | 62% | |||
SC | State House - 55 | Jackie Hayes | Democratic | 61% |
Samuel Rivers, Jr. | 61% | |||
SC | State House - 76 | Leon Howard | Democratic | 60% |
SC | State Senate - 21 | Darrell Jackson | Democratic | 60% |
Michael Fair | 58% | |||
SC | State House - 16 | Mark Willis | Republican | 56% |
Todd Atwater | 55% | |||
SC | State Senate - 13 | Shane Martin | Republican | 54% |
SC | State House - 68 | Heather Crawford | Republican | 53% |
Greg Delleney, Jr. | 53% |