With nearly 82 percent of the vote, Republican Richard Cash on Tuesday easily won the S.C. Senate District 3 seat vacated by Lt. Gov. Kevin Bryant.
Cash ran uncontested for the race, after winning the
Of the 3,034 votes cast, only 679 (18 percent) of the write-in votes did not go to Cash.
The District 3 seat was previously held by Lt. Gov. Kevin Bryant. Bryant become the state’s Lt. Governor after Gov. McMaster was sworn in in January.
Cash won a Republican Primary Runoff earlier by a narrow margin over Carol Burdette. Burdette received 611 of the 679 write-in votes. No Democrat or third party candidates registered to run for Tuesday's race.