Democrats on Tuesday won a special election for a state House seat in South Carolina by an eye-popping margin, signaling yet again that the 2026 midterms could be a very good year for the Democratic Party.

Twenty-four-year-old Democratic nominee Keishan Scott defeated Republican William Oden in a special election for South Carolina’s 50th state House District, garnering 70.6% of the vote to Oden's 29.3%

That 41-percentage-point victory is far higher than the 5 points by which Vice President Kamala Harris carried the same district in last year’s presidential election. And it marks the second-biggest shift toward Democrats in any special election that has been held since November.

The result means that Democrats in special elections have now overperformed Harris’ result

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