2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina

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The 2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 2014, concurrently with the regular election for the other South Carolina Senate seat. The special-election Senate seat was formerly held by Republican Jim DeMint, who resigned on January 2, 2013, to become president of the Heritage Foundation. Nikki Haley, the Republican governor of South Carolina, announced the appointment of U.S. Representative Tim Scott to fill the seat. Scott ran in the special election and won by beating Democratic candidate and Richland County councilwoman Joyce Dickerson in the November election. Scott became the first black senator in the state's history and the first in a former Confederate state since 1881. The election was noted for being the first in a former Confederate state in which both major party nominees were black. This was also the first of three consecutive elections to this seat in which both major party nominees were black.

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