South Carolina attorney general Alan Wilson stormed to the Republican gubernatorial nomination on Tuesday evening, completing one of the most impressive, improbable political victories the Palmetto State has ever seen.
Runoff Election Results
Wilson obliterated former first-place finisher Pamela Evette in their head-to-head runoff race, enjoying a 65.5% to 34.5% margin of victory at last count. He will face Democrat Jermaine Johnson in the general election on November 3, 2026.
The race was called by the Associated Press at 7:30 p.m. EDT, half an hour after polls closed. Wilson’s win came less than a month after Evette received the endorsement of U.S. president Donald Trump – and two weeks after she narrowly bested Wilson in the initial round of voting.
Lopsided runoff elections are nothing new in South Carolina. In 2010, Nikki Haley won the GOP gubernatorial nomination with 233,733 votes – or 65.1% of all ballots cast, defeating former U.S. congressman Gresham Barrett (who received 125,601 votes, or 34.9% of all ballots cast).
Original reporting: FITSNews — read the source article.
