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The 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 2 2010 along with other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint won re-election to a second term. Alvin Greene the Democratic nominee was the first major-party African-American U.S. Senate candidate in South Carolina since Reconstruction.