#aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="5" | Democratic Primary |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="width: 170px"|Delegates for ! style="width: 50px"|Votes ! style="width: 40px"|% ! style="width: 50px"|Delegates ! style="width: 40px"|% |- |- | Ben Tillman | align="right" | 55,080 | align="right" | 62.5 | align="right" | 263 | align="right" | 82.4|- | John Calhoun Sheppard | align="right" | 32,988 | align="right" | 37.5 | align="right" | 56 | align="right" | 17.6 |- |} General election The general election was held on November 8, 1892 and Ben Tillman was reelected as governor of South Carolina without opposition. Tillman had forced the state Democratic party to adopt the entire Ocala Platform in order to avoid a challenge from the Populist Party. Turnout decreased for this election over the previous election because it was an uncontested election. |- | | colspan=5 |Democratic hold''' |- See also Governor of South Carolina List of governors of South Carolina South Carolina gubernatorial elections Notes References "Election Returns." Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina at the Regular Session Commencing November 22, 1892''. Volume I. Columbia, SC: Charles A. Calvo, Jr., 1892, p. 555. External links SCIway Biography of Governor Benjamin Ryan Tillman South Carolina 1892 Gubernatorial November 1892 events Benjamin Tillman