While the 2024 election is over, the implications of the vote will play out in Congress, the statehouse, and county boards for months and years

Only a handful of state Senate races were truly competitive, and included Democrats needing to defend seats in the upper chamber where they were already the minority.

The story Tuesday night wasn’t much different than on recent election nights. Republicans in South Carolina swamped Democrats with a huge wave in 1994, taking over the House, and and again in 2000 taking over the Senate.

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Democrat Hamilton Grant beat Republican nominee Rebecca Madsen, 75% to 24% in House District 79. Grant will succeed former Democratic Rep. Ivory Thigpen, who lost his bid for state Senate District 22 in the primary runoff to Overture Walker.

South Carolina’s demographics are changing as the state experiences a population boom, raising questions about how a shifting electorate could impact the 2024 election. The Palmetto State’s population is estimated to have grown by more than a quarter of a million people since 2020,

Kirkman Finlay, a Republican, who had about 47% with about 80% of state House District 75 reporting, according to the South Carolina elections website. With 17 of 21 precincts in the Richland County district counted,