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Last updated: October 21, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in South Carolina within our coverage scope on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for seven U.S. Representatives, 124 state Representatives, and 46 state Senators. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in South Carolina
- The elected offices that South Carolina voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in South Carolina that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in South Carolina will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of South Carolina's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in South Carolina
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in South Carolina
- The candidates who are on the ballot in South Carolina
Voting information
- See also: Voting in South Carolina
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: South Carolina elections, 2024
South Carolina voters will elect seven U.S. Representatives. One district is open because the incumbent did not run for re-election.
All 124 seats in the state House and all 46 seats in the state Senate are up for election. There are 15 open seats in the House and five in the Senate.
There are four school boards up for election in South Carolina. The districts these boards represent are part of the 475 school districts included in Ballotpedia's coverage of school board elections. This includes all school districts in the nation's largest cities and school districts.
South Carolina is one of 26 states where we are expanding our local election coverage beyond the nation's biggest cities, school districts, and state capitals. Including those mentioned above, Ballotpedia is following local elections for 1,140 candidates in 721 races for offices such as local councils and other county-level positions.
Voters will decide on one statewide ballot measure.
Below is a list of South Carolina elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| South Carolina elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | — | — |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | ✓ | Click here |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | — | — |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of October 21, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified no general elections in South Carolina as battleground races. Those are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
Ballot measures
- See also: South Carolina 2024 ballot measures
There is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in South Carolina.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | Prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote |
|
1,982,956 (86%) |
324,432 (14%) |
Fifty-six statewide ballot measures were on the ballot in South Carolina from 1985 to 2022. Voters approved 47 measures and defeated nine.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Democrats represent one of seven districts in South Carolina's U.S. House delegation. Republicans hold the remaining six districts. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Republicans have a 30-15 majority, with one independent officeholder, in the state Senate and an 88-35 majority, with one vacancy, in the state House.
Past presidential election results in South Carolina
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 71.8% of South Carolinians lived in one of the state's 25 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 23.6% lived in one of 13 Solid Democratic counties. Overall, South Carolina was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in South Carolina following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| South Carolina county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Republican | 25 | 71.8% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 13 | 23.6% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 6 | 3.5% | |||||
| New Republican | 2 | 1.2% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 13 | 23.6% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 33 | 76.4% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, South Carolina had a Competitiveness Index of 29.2, ranking it 28th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 20 of the 170 seats up for election were open (12%).
- 51 of the 150 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (34%).
- 71 of the 170 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (42%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in South Carolina, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 9.7% | 23.2% | 29.8% | 20.9 | 43 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 14.1% | 15.5% | 40.0% | 23.2 | 41 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 7.3% | 17.4% | 24.2% | 16.3 | 43 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 10.0% | 27.5% | 23.5% | 20.3 | 38 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 6.5% | 31.0% | 36.3% | 24.6 | 39 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 8.2% | 23.1% | 47.6% | 26.3 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 12.1% | 30.6% | 40.3% | 27.7 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 11.8% | 34.0% | 41.8% | 29.2 | 28 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
Hover over column headings to learn more about their contents. Click on headings for more state-specific information.
| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in South Carolina, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 12.1% | 34.9% | 37.9% | 28.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 10.9% | 31.7% | 52.2% | 31.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 11.8% | 34.0% | 41.8% | 29.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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