Dwight Loftis
Member of the South Carolina Senate
from the 6th district
Assumed office
March 27, 2019
Preceded byWilliam Timmons[1]
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
from the 19th district
In office
January 24, 1996 – March 27, 2019
Preceded byMike Fair[2]
Succeeded byPatrick Haddon[3]
Personal details
Born (1943-02-04) February 4, 1943
Greenville County, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

Dwight Loftis (born February 4, 1943) is an American politician from South Carolina. A member of the South Carolina Senate since 2019, he previously represented district 19 in the South Carolina House of Representatives for 23 years from 1996 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican party.[4]

Loftis became the Republican nominee for South Carolina Senate district 6 on January 22, 2019, by beating opponents Amy Ryberg Doyle and Jeffery Stringer.[5]

He won his state senate district 6 election with 56 percent of the votes against Democrat Tina Belge who received 44 percent of the votes in her first run for elected office.[1]

Loftis opposes to gay marriage and strongly supports marriage as defined between a man and woman.[6]

He voted to keep the Confederate Flag flying above the South Carolina Statehouse.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "SC State Senate 06 – Special Election". Our Campaigns. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ "SC State House 019 – Special Election". Our Campaigns. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ "SC State House 019". Our Campaigns. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Dwight Loftis". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Brown, Kirk (January 22, 2019). "Loftis wins SC Senate District 6 Republican primary, according to unofficial vote total". Greenville News. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Issues". Dwight Loftis for Senate. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Bowers, Paul (July 9, 2015). "Here are the 20 lawmakers who voted against removing the Confederate flag". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved April 4, 2020.


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