1953 South Carolina Gubernatorial Race

Completed

Final Election Results

Votes allocated by demographic reach each turn. Final 4 turns = 25%; earlier turns = 75%.

Final Results743.7k votes cast · 25 turns

Candidate	Votes	Share
Linda BellNPP Democratic Party	441.8k	59.4%
Anita McAllisterNPP Farmer-Labor Party	301.9k	40.6%

Candidate

Linda BellNPP

Democratic Party

Votes

441.8k

59.4%

Candidate

Anita McAllisterNPP

Farmer-Labor Party

Votes

301.9k

40.6%

Vote share

Persuasion Drivers

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Why South Carolina voters lean toward Linda Bell over Anita McAllister. Each driver is signed: + = lift, − = drag. Drivers are relative within this list and only move the persuadable slice of each party's vote, so their real effect is small. Coattail rows are direct share tilts in %. A raw vote lead does not equal the sum of these bars.

Persuasion drivers (pts of the persuadable slice)

Candidate Support0.0 pts

Policy alignment-0.2 pts

Money0.0 pts

Incumbency0.0 pts

Ceiling this cycle: at most 20.0% of Anita McAllister's vote can be persuaded across to Linda Bell, and 20.0% of Linda Bell's vote can be persuaded away. Registration lean sets the starting split and how hard a party is to move, not the final share. These drivers add up to -0.2 pts of that movable slice.

Election Trends

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