Source: the South Carolina Election Commission's daily early-voting turnout reports (votes by county and early-voting site for each day) and its absentee statistics, plus the same reports for the 2022 and 2024 general elections. South Carolina has no party registration, so there is no party split; the voter list records race, and the Commission's 2022 and 2024 absentee reports split by it.
Where 2026 stands
Cumulative ballots by day
Each line is a running total by days before Election Day. Early in-person voting runs Monday through Saturday for the two weeks before the election, from Oct 19 to Oct 31, 2026, with no voting on Sunday; it ran over the same days of the calendar in 2022 and 2024. All three elections fall on a Tuesday, so the same day count lands on the same weekday. 2022 is the last midterm, 2024 the last presidential election.
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Absentee applications, ballots issued and returned
The absentee pipeline for . South Carolina voters must have a reason to vote absentee (age 65 or older, disability, work, travel, military and overseas, among others); everyone else votes early in person or on Election Day. A voter asks for an application, returns it, and is then issued a ballot by mail, e-mail or fax. Each line is cumulative by day.
At the same day
How 2026 applications came in and ballots went out
Absentee ballots by race
The Election Commission's absentee reports split ballots by the race on each voter's registration record. The bars compare the racial makeup of absentee voters with registered voters and with everyone who voted.
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Ballots per 100,000 registered voters
The ballots chosen above divided by registered voters in the same county, per 100,000 of them, so counties of very different size can be compared. Each 2026 dot sits beside the same county's 2022 and 2024 figures at the same day, each divided by that year's early-October registration. Click a row to make that county the geography for every section.
Map: where early voting is running ahead
All 46 counties on one scale. Click or tap a county to make it the geography for every section.
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County curves
Cumulative ballots by day in each county, 2026 against 2022 and 2024, for the ballots chosen above. The heading shows the change from the same day in 2022, the last midterm. Click a card to make that county the geography for every section.
Early votes by site
Every early-voting site in the Commission's daily report, with its votes so far and, where a site of the same name in the same county was open in 2024 or 2022, that site's count at the same day. Cells from 1 to 9 show "<10".
Counties
2026 against the same day in 2022 and 2024 for every county, and against each cycle's final count. The comparison columns follow the ballots chosen above. Click a row to make that county the geography for every section. Cells from 1 to 9 show "<10".