1990 South Carolina gubernatorial election
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The 1990 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1990 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Carroll A. Campbell Jr., the popular Republican incumbent, handily defeated Democrat Theo Mitchell to become only the second governor at the time elected to a second consecutive four-year term.
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This was the first election since 1874 that Republicans won consecutively. This election was the first time since Reconstruction in 1870 that an incumbent Republican Governor of South Carolina was re-elected.