1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1906 South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial primary runoff South Carolina 1906 presidential Popular Democratic Party (United States) 1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1904 1906 09 11 1908 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1908 x150px File:Martin Frederick Ansel.jpg Martin Frederick Ansel Democratic Party (United States) 47,638 56.12% File:Richard Irvine Manning III circa 1915.jpg Richard Irvine Manning III Democratic Party (United States) 37,245 43.88% Governor Duncan Clinch Heyward Democratic Party (United States) Martin Frederick Ansel Democratic Party (United States) The 1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina, United States. Martin Frederick Ansel won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 89th governor of South Carolina. Democratic primary The South Carolina Democratic Party held its primary for governor on August 28 and Martin Frederick Ansel emerged as the frontrunner. Ansel was vocal in his opposition to the Dispensary system set up by Ben Tillman and instead favored the local county option established by the Bryce law in 1904. His chief rival, progressive reformer Richard Irvine Manning III, sought to maintain a statewide Dispensary and work to remove all the corrupt officials in it. The public sentiment at the time felt that nobody with even the best intentions could clean up the Dispensary and therefore Ansel won the Democratic runoff on September 11 against Manning. He essentially became the next governor of South Carolina because there was no opposition in the general election. Democratic PrimaryCandidateVotes% Martin Frederick Ansel 39,850 41.2 Richard Irvine Manning III 23,008 23.8 Coleman Livingston Blease 16,801 17.4 J.E. Brunson 9,982 10.3 John T. Sloan 3,348 3.5 John Joseph McMahan 2,231 2.3 A.C. Jones 898 0.9 W.A. Edwards 530 0.6 Democratic Primary RunoffCandidateVotes%±% Martin Frederick Ansel 47,638 56.1 +14.9 Richard Irvine Manning III 37,245 43.9 +20.1 General election The general election was held on November 6, 1906, and Martin Frederick Ansel was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election. South Carolina Gubernatorial Election, 1906 Democratic Party (United States) Martin Frederick Ansel 30,251 100.00 0.0 30,251 100.00 0.0 30,251 |- | Democratic Party (United States) | colspan=5 |Democratic hold |- frame|none|1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election map, by percentile by county. #00f 65+% won by Ansel See also Governor of South Carolina List of governors of South Carolina South Carolina gubernatorial elections References Jordan Frank E The Primary State: A History of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, 1876-1962 25–26 William Watts Ball The State That Forgot; South Carolina's Surrender to Democracy 1932 The Bobbs-Merrill Company 254, 256–257 Primary Results Declared The News and Courier 1 September 1906 1 Election Returns All In The News and Courier 14 September 1906 1 External links SCIway Biography of Martin Frederick Ansel 1904 South Carolina gubernatorial elections 1908 Gubernatorial 1906 1906 South Carolina Category:November 1906 in the United States