United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1960

The 1960 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 8, 1960 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond easily won the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.

Democratic primary

Senator Strom Thurmond was opposed by Columbia lawyer Robert Beverley Herbert in the Democratic primary. Herbert argued that Thurmond's means of opposing the civil rights legislation in the 1950s was unconstructive and instead if he were in the Senate he would express to the country how the blacks were benefited by white rule. Herbert's campaign was little more than token opposition as Thurmond racked up a huge victory and won another term because he did not have an opponent in the general election.

South Carolina U.S. Senate Primary Election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Strom Thurmond	273,795	89.5
	Democratic	Robert Beverley Herbert	32,136	10.5

Election results

South Carolina U.S. Senate Election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Strom Thurmond	330,167	100.0	0.0
	No party	Write-Ins	102	0.0	0.0
Majority			330,065	100.0	0.0
Turnout			330,269	55.4	+23.2
	Democratic hold

See also

• List of United States Senators from South Carolina
• United States Senate elections, 1960
• United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1960