Close races for school boards, SC Statehouse in York County. See latest results.

With 100 percent of precincts reported Wednesday, election results became clearer for school boards in all four York County school districts, and S.C. General Assembly House of Representatives members.

All results will require official counting later by the York County Board of Voter Registration and Elections.

Here are the unofficial results of area elections for S.C. Statehouse and school boards, from the S.C. Election Commission Web site.

Rock Hill school board

School board races are non-partisan.

In the Rock Hill school district, three seats had competitive races. One incumbent appeared to lose, while two incumbents appeared to hold onto their seats.

For the District Seat 2, incumbent chairperson Helena Miller appeared to easily defeat Stephanie Gathings Haselrig by about 37 percentage points. Miller had about 68 percent of the vote, with Gathings Halserig at 31 percent.

In the race for District Seat 4, Kiwanna Brackett, Peter Nosal, and incumbent Robin Owens faced off for the seat, with Nosal taking home about half of the votes cast, according to election commission figures. Owens currently is the vice-chair of the school board in Rock Hill.

Nosal had about 50 percent of the vote, Owens had about 33 percent, and Brackett about 17 percent, vote totals at showed.

In the at-large race, incumbent Brent Faulkenberry appeared to hold off a challenge from Natasha Witherspoon. Faulkenberry had 64 percent of the vote, while Witherspoon had 36 percent.

Fort Mill school board

The race for four seats up for election Tuesday was hotly contested with 12 candidates vying for four seats.

More than 83,000 votes had been counted in the race as of Wednesday with all precincts reporting, election commission figures showed.

Vote tallies showed two incumbents appeared set to keep their seats, while one incumbent was trailing and seemed to be on the verge of losing the seat.

Incumbent Wayne Bouldin had 13 percent of the vote, incumbent Michelle Branning had over 11 percent, Lipi Pratt had more than 10 percent, and Joe Helms had more than 10 percent of votes, vote totals showed.

Other results showed Connie Cullen with more than 9 percent, Kevin Glover more than 4 percent, Brandi Jansen over 8 percent, Desareta Jones over 3 percent, Rachele Julian over 7 percent, Eric Mann over 8 percent, incumbent Celia A. McCarter over 8 percent, and Nichell Newton over 5 percent.

Clover school board

In the Clover school district, two seats had competitive races. In the race for Seat 1, Mike Ballard faced Jay Young. Results showed Ballard with around 54 percent of the votes, with Young at 46 percent.

In the race for Seat 2, Keron Meeks faced Jay Rawls. Meeks had over 52 percent of the vote, with Rawls at around 48 percent, election commission totals showed.

York school board

In the race for Seat 2 in the York school district, David McSwain faced Quinn Witte. McSwain had about 78 percent of the vote, with Witte showing 21 percent.

S.C. Statehouse

S.C. House members serve two-year terms.

Incumbent Republican Raye Felder appeared to easily defeat Democratic challenger Matt Vilardebo by more than 25 percentage points in the race for the district that covers part of the Fort Mill area. Returns showed Felder with 63 percent of the vote and Vilardebo with 37 percent.

In District 48, which covers part of western York County, Republican Brandon Guffey led Democrat Andrew Russell by more than 30 points in the race to take over the seat vacated by retiring Rep. Bruce Bryant. Guffey, who gave up his seat on the York County Council to run for Statehouse, had around 67 percent of the vote, while Russell had 33 percent at 11 p.m.

The only Democratic incumbent from York County in the Statehouse, John King, was ahead of Republican challenger Thomas Hardin in the District 49 race, which covers parts of Rock Hill and York. King is the sole African-American member of the York County legislative delegation in a county that has around 20 percent Black population.

King had around 65 percent of the vote, with Hardin trailing with about 35 percent, according to the election commission.

In District 66, which covers parts of northern York County including Tega Cay, Republican David O’Neal was leading Democrat Carla Litrenta by around 16 points, election statistics showed.

O’Neal had around 58 percent of the vote, while Litrenta had 42 percent, election commission totals showed.

Republicans Tommy Pope in District 48, Heath Sessions in District 45, and Randy Ligon in District 43, and Dennis Moss in District 29 ran unopposed.

This story was originally published November 8, 2022 at 10:18 PM.