Sheri Biggs Wins South Carolina GOP House Runoff Race

Unfinished business from June 11 primary lifts first-time candidate to win in deep red congressional district.

People vote during the South Carolina Republican presidential primary at Kilbourne Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C. on Feb. 24, 2024. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Nurse practitioner and Air Force National Guard officer Sheri Biggs has edged evangelical minister and televangelist Mark Burns in their June 25 runoff election in South Carolina’s Congressional District 3 (CD 3).

Ms. Biggs had garnered 51.1 percent of the tally, 27,649 votes, to Mr. Burns’ 48.9 percent, 26,474 votes when the race was called by the Associated Press about 9:20 p.m. EST with 95 percent of ballots counted.