South Carolina early voting
876,288
early ballots cast in South Carolina
As of Oct 30
68.9% of 2024In-person early votes, 4 days before Election Day2024 was a presidential year; midterms usually run lower.
- In-person early votes
- 838,420
- Mail ballots returned
- 37,868
- Absentee applications issued
- 56,986
- Under 3.1K
- 3.1K to 5K
- 5K to 13K
- 13K to 31K
- 31K or more
- No count
Source: South Carolina Election Commission (scVOTES), early voting totals and absentee statistics. electionwrld.com/early-vote/SC
Day by day, saved since Oct 29
We started saving each state's count on Oct 29, so the line is short and grows with every report. Each date is the one the office gives for its count, so a first report can be dated a day before we saved it. Nothing earlier is filled in.
| Report date | Early ballots | Added | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30 | 876,288 | +87,048 | CSV |
| Oct 29 | 789,240 | First report | CSV |
Pace compared with 2024
2026 as of Oct 30, 2026 (4 days before Election Day, Nov 3, 2026) vs 2024 as of Nov 1, 2024 (4 days before Election Day, Nov 5, 2024).
| Measure | 2026 | 2024, same point | % of 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-person early votes | 838,420 | 1,217,644Nov 1, 2024 | 68.9% |
How this comparison is built
- Same point means the same number of days before Election Day: 4 days out in both years.
- 2024 source: South Carolina Election Commission (scVOTES), 2024 General Election early-voting statistics by day.
- In-person early votes only. The Commission's 2024 absentee report is a single end-of-election file, so there is no day-by-day mail count; mail metrics are omitted.
- Early voting ran Oct 21 to Nov 2, 2024, with no voting on Sunday Oct 27.
- Counts come from the final workbook (report date Nov 3, 2024), which may reflect small corrections after each daily report.
46 counties
Early ballots, with each county's pace against 2024 at the same point, measured on in-person early votes. 2024 was a presidential year; midterms usually run lower.
| GreenvilleMail 3,894In person 83,212Absentee applications issued 5,4542024, same point 116,943 | 87,106 | 71.2% |
|---|---|---|
| CharlestonMail 4,354In person 78,759Absentee applications issued 7,2892024, same point 115,503 | 83,113 | 68.2% |
| RichlandMail 3,482In person 73,786Absentee applications issued 5,0652024, same point 91,360 | 77,268 | 80.8% |
| HorryMail 3,181In person 72,101Absentee applications issued 4,6432024, same point 102,476 | 75,282 | 70.4% |
| YorkMail 1,900In person 47,196Absentee applications issued 2,6702024, same point 81,926 | 49,096 | 57.6% |
| SpartanburgMail 1,495In person 44,054Absentee applications issued 2,3412024, same point 66,614 | 45,549 | 66.1% |
| LexingtonMail 1,830In person 42,051Absentee applications issued 2,7322024, same point 67,826 | 43,881 | 62.0% |
| BerkeleyMail 1,881In person 39,811Absentee applications issued 3,1582024, same point 48,488 | 41,692 | 82.1% |
| BeaufortMail 1,985In person 38,564Absentee applications issued 3,3782024, same point 53,961 | 40,549 | 71.5% |
| AikenMail 1,004In person 30,205Absentee applications issued 1,4722024, same point 43,693 | 31,209 | 69.1% |
| DorchesterMail 839In person 28,932Absentee applications issued 1,3512024, same point 43,379 | 29,771 | 66.7% |
| AndersonMail 1,129In person 24,018Absentee applications issued 1,5792024, same point 32,420 | 25,147 | 74.1% |
| FlorenceMail 439In person 21,176Absentee applications issued 7762024, same point 31,480 | 21,615 | 67.3% |
| LancasterMail 495In person 20,042Absentee applications issued 6802024, same point 30,916 | 20,537 | 64.8% |
| PickensMail 542In person 17,301Absentee applications issued 7362024, same point 31,041 | 17,843 | 55.7% |
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Source and notes
South Carolina Election Commission (scVOTES), early voting totals and absentee statistics
In-person early votes by county from the Commission's daily totals file, plus absentee ballots returned from its absentee statistics workbook. Updated Oct 30; retrieved Oct 30, 3:41 PM ET.
- South Carolina voters do not register by party, so no party figures exist.
- In-person early votes run through the day before the report date. The absentee workbook is dated 2026-10-30.
- Mail requested counts absentee applications issued. Mail returned counts ballots returned before and after the deadline.