Ellis Wins Democratic Education Race Without a Runoff | South Carolina News

By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s election board Friday finalized the outcomes for this week’s primaries and confirmed Democratic Education Superintendent candidate Lisa Ellis narrowly prevented a runoff.

The board licensed all races in South Carolina, however the Democratic superintendent main was the one statewide race shut sufficient to depart any query in regards to the end result.

Ellis, who based the SC for Ed trainer advocacy group, acquired 50.1% of Tuesday’s vote, in keeping with unofficial outcomes from the South Carolina Election Commission. She prevented a runoff by 199 votes, which is required if no candidate will get a majority. Anderson County School District 4 Superintendent Gary Burgess completed second and state Rep. Jerry Govan third.

Ellis’ Republican opponent can be decided in a June 28 runoff. Palmetto State Teachers Association Executive Director Kathy Maness was the highest vote getter and can face conservative assume tank CEO and former state Education Oversight Committee chairwoman Ellen Weaver, who completed second.

The different statewide runoff can be for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, between creator and preservationist Catherine Fleming Bruce and state Rep. Krystle Matthews.

They completed first and second in a three-candidate main the place all three girls acquired greater than 32% of the vote. Only 4,500 votes separated first place from final place with greater than 171,000 ballots solid.

Election officers ordered recounts in three state House races, required when lower than 1% of the votes separate the candidates. In a Republican Lexington County race, the official outcomes confirmed Rep. Micah Caskey held on to a 25-vote lead. In a state House race in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties, the second and third place finishers aiming for a runoff for an open seat have been nonetheless separated by 14 votes. In a Richland County Republican main, the successful margin dropped from 4 votes to a few votes.

Early voting for the June 28 runoffs begins Wednesday and ends subsequent Friday.

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