Day one of early voting shattered the state’s pre-2026 one-day turnout for an early voting period.
So did day two.
On Wednesday, more than 34,000 South Carolinians cast their ballots. That brings the total of voters on just the first two days of early voting in the June 9 primaries to 90,460, according to the state Election Commission.
The previous one-day record before this year's primary election was about 23,000, set during the 2024 presidential race.
The largest turnout so far has happened in Richland and Charleston counties. Together, the two counties drew nearly one in every four early votes cast through Wednesday.
The Election Commission also posted political party participation numbers for the first day of early voting. Of the 56,407 votes cast on Tuesday, 45,966 were cast by voters for the Democratic primary.
Heading into Memorial Day, left-leaning groups fearful of a redrawn Congressional map that would favor Republicans called for at least 10,000 early voters to show up to the polls on Tuesday, before a vote on the new map could be taken. On that day, 10,340 people voted in the Republican primary.
