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Henry McMaster

Republican · Holds Governor of South Carolina
First race on record
1986
Races
Won 4 of 6

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Spectrum

Centrist is the middle of the scale, not of Congress. How this works

By donors (CFscore, 2022 cycle)

Research estimate from Stanford DIME 4.0. Source

Matched by name only, so it could be the wrong person.

Method and limits

Published score 1.189 on a scale from −2.0 to 2.0, where 0 is the center. 10,100 donors. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

Places a candidate by who gave them money; candidates who share donors sit close together.

Reflects the donor network, not votes or views, and comes from past cycles, not a 2026 reading.

Now

Not on the 2026 ballot

Career

YearRaceResultShareLost to, or other round
2022Governor, SCWon58%
2018Governor, SCWon54%
2010Governor, SC · electionLost
2006Attorney General, SCWon
2002Attorney General, SCWon
1986US Senate, SCLost · primary won35.6%Ernest Fritz Hollings 63.1%

Filed with the FEC, no race in our files: 2014 Lieutenant Governor, SC.

Races in our results files. Other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss.

More about Henry McMaster

Offices held (4 terms and offices)

  • Governor, South Carolina
  • Governor, South Carolina
  • Attorney General, South Carolina
  • Attorney General, South Carolina

Sources (7 sources)

  • Wikidata SPARQL (governor position holders, party)

    Who holds the seat: name, party, start date. Retrieved Oct 28, 2026. License: CC0-1.0.

    Compiled by the Wikidata community (not an official source; to be cross-checked against official governor pages) from official returns. Not an official source.

  • Stanford DIME public v4.0, recipients file (CFscores)

    CFscores for candidates and officials; web/data/ideology/dime.json and aggregate.json. A research estimate by Adam Bonica, not an official measure. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

    Compiled by Adam Bonica, Stanford University Libraries (built from campaign finance filings) from official returns. Not an official source.

    Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0 [Computer file]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime .

  • Election Wrld governor returns (web/data/results/governor); upstream sources are listed in web/data/sources.json

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: see sources.json.

  • FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.

  • Stanford DIME v4.0 recipients file

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

  • MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.

  • Election Wrld officials files (web/data/officials)

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: see sources.json.

  • First win in our records: Governor SC, 2018-11-06. Basis: first win in our records (Election Wrld results files; earlier wins may exist outside them).

Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.

Not available for Henry McMaster: state campaign finance, state voting records.

DataSources: DIME (ODC-BY), Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026