South-Carolina
Who’s eligible, ways to vote: What SC voters need to know about upcoming runoffs
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A week from Tuesday, around 30 runoff elections will take place across South Carolina.
These are for races in which no candidate received a majority of votes during last week’s primaries, ranging from local races like sheriffs and county council to seats representing South Carolinians on Capitol Hill and at the State House.
“You’re picking the candidates that are either going to run against someone from the other party or if they’re unopposed, that’s a mainline right to that office in November,” Sara Ballard, executive director of the nonpartisan organization South Carolina Women in Leadership, said.
That is especially the case throughout much of South Carolina, where the vast majority of legislative districts lean heavily toward one party or the other, making them uncompetitive in a general election.
But the South Carolina Election Commission said runoffs are usually low-turnout races, with most garnering single-digit turnout among eligible voters.
“With such low turnout, your vote really goes further, so it really matters,” John Michael Catalano with the South Carolina Election Commission said.
The first thing to know is who’s eligible to vote in runoffs.
For starters, you must be a registered voter in the district or county where the runoff is.
If you voted in last week’s primary for that race, you are only eligible to vote in the runoff for that same party.
For example, if you voted in a Democratic primary, and there is now a Republican runoff for that race, you are not eligible to vote in that runoff.
“But if you didn’t vote in the primaries at all, you still can vote in the runoffs, and you can pick either party,” Catalano said. “You don’t have to vote in the primary to vote in the runoffs.”
As with last week’s primaries, South Carolinians have three ways to vote in runoffs, but they are on a condensed timeline.
People who meet certain qualifications can vote absentee by mail, like if they are 65 or older.
If you voted this way for the primary and checked a box on your absentee ballot request form that asked for you to be sent a runoff ballot if one of those races advanced to a runoff, the South Carolina Election Commission will send that to you.
But if you did not do that and want to request a mail-in ballot, that deadline has already passed.
The Election Commission is asking absentee voters to return their mail-in ballots in person, if they can.
“Because that’s just faster and you can cut out the mail that way. But if you’re not able to do that — you’re living too far away or whatever reason — just be sure to drop that in the mail as soon as possible,” Catalano said.
But there are still other ways to vote, including three days of in-person early voting.
That starts this Wednesday and will run through Friday, at locations in every county where there is a runoff, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Locations can be found here.)
“It’s a tight schedule, so we’re really urging voters not to delay, vote as soon as you’re able to,” Catalano said.
Eligible voters can also head to the polls on runoff day, which is next week Tuesday, June 25.
Polls will be open that day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the counties where there is at least one runoff.
South Carolinians voting in person, or if they are voting absentee by mail and returning their ballot in person, will need to bring a photo ID with them.
The following is a list of all runoffs that will be held on June 25, sorted by county:
Abbeville
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
Allendale
- County Council, District 1 – Democratic
Anderson
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- State House of Representative, District 9 – Republican
Calhoun
- State House of Representatives, District 93 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 26 – Republican
Charleston
Colleton
- Clerk of Court – Democratic
Dillon
- County Council, District 1 – Democratic
- County Council, District 3 – Democratic
Edgefield
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
Georgetown
- County Council, District 3 – Democratic
Greenville
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- State Senate, District 6 – Republican
- State Senate, District 12 – Republican
- State House of Representatives, District 28 – Republican
- County Council, District 20 – Republican
- County Council, District 22 – Republican
- County Council, District 25 – Democratic
Greenwood
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- State Senate, District 10 – Republican
Kershaw
- State Senate, District 35 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 35 – Republican
Laurens
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- County Council, District 7 – Republican
Lee
- State Senate, District 35 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 35 – Republican
Lexington
- State Senate, District 10 – Republican
- State Senate, District 23 – Republican
- State Senate, District 26 – Republican
- State House of Representatives, District 93 – Democratic
McCormick
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
Newberry
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
Oconee
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
Orangeburg
- State House of Representatives, District 93 – Democratic
- Coroner – Democratic
Pickens
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- Sheriff – Republican
- County Council, District 5 – Republican
Richland
- State Senate, District 22 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 26 – Republican
- State Senate, District 35 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 35 – Republican
Saluda
- US House of Representatives, District 3 – Republican
- State Senate, District 10 – Republican
- Probate Judge – Republican
- Spartanburg
- State Senate, District 12 – Republican
- State House of Representatives, District 34 – Republican
- County Council, District 4 – Republican
Sumter
- State Senate, District 35 – Democratic
- State Senate, District 35 – Republican
York
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Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win
Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
The South Carolina Education Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at May 8, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Mega Millions numbers from May 8 drawing
37-47-49-51-58, Mega Ball: 16
Check Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 Plus FIREBALL numbers from May 8 drawing
Midday: 9-2-8, FB: 7
Evening: 2-2-3, FB: 7
Check Pick 3 Plus FIREBALL payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 Plus FIREBALL numbers from May 8 drawing
Midday: 5-2-1-5, FB: 7
Evening: 4-6-5-2, FB: 7
Check Pick 4 Plus FIREBALL payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Cash Pop numbers from May 8 drawing
Midday: 13
Evening: 07
Check Cash Pop payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Palmetto Cash 5 numbers from May 8 drawing
02-20-23-27-40
Check Palmetto Cash 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
The South Carolina Education Lottery provides multiple ways to claim prizes, depending on the amount won:
For prizes up to $500, you can redeem your winnings directly at any authorized South Carolina Education Lottery retailer. Simply present your signed winning ticket at the retailer for an immediate payout.
Winnings $501 to $100,000, may be redeemed by mailing your signed winning ticket along with a completed claim form and a copy of a government-issued photo ID to the South Carolina Education Lottery Claims Center. For security, keep copies of your documents and use registered mail to ensure the safe arrival of your ticket.
SC Education Lottery
P.O. Box 11039
Columbia, SC 29211-1039
For large winnings above $100,000, claims must be made in person at the South Carolina Education Lottery Headquarters in Columbia. To claim, bring your signed winning ticket, a completed claim form, a government-issued photo ID, and your Social Security card for identity verification. Winners of large prizes may also set up an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for convenient direct deposit of winnings.
Columbia Claims Center
1303 Assembly Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Claim Deadline: All prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the draw date for draw games.
For more details and to access the claim form, visit the South Carolina Lottery claim page.
When are the South Carolina Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday and Friday.
- Pick 3: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Pick 4: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Cash Pop: Daily at 12:59 p.m. (Midday) and 6:59 p.m. (Evening).
- Palmetto Cash 5: 6:59 p.m. ET daily.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a South Carolina editor. You can send feedback using this form.
South Carolina Republicans took the first step Friday to cancel the state’s June primary election — to give more time to potentially pass a new gerrymandered congressional map — as absentee voting is already underway.
A South Carolina House subcommittee voted 3-2 along party lines to advance a bill that would move the state’s June 9 primary election to August 11, with the expectation that the legislature would redraw the state’s congressional map to dismantle its lone Democratic district, represented by longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn.
The vote came after the committee heard hours of public testimony urging lawmakers to reject pressure to delay the state’s primaries and draw new congressional maps. In all, 23 South Carolina residents testified against redistricting and moving the state’s primaries. No one spoke in support of either measure.
More than 6,000 absentee ballots have already been sent out to military and overseas voters for the June primary — more than 200 of those ballots have since been returned, according to the South Carolina Election Commission (SCEC). Should the legislature approve the measure to delay the state’s primary, those ballots will be disqualified.
Conway Belangia, the executive director of the SCEC, said at Friday’s hearing that moving the primary to August “will be difficult… but it is possible.”
The difficulty, he outlined, is the massive amount it will cost taxpayers to toss out the ballots that have already been printed and sent to voters: Approximately $2.5 million.
“That’s being done not for the benefit of all the citizens of this state, but for the benefit of one party,” Rep. Justin Bamberg (D) noted.
Delaying the primary election would be done to accommodate a redistricting process moving so fast that even some state Republicans want to slow down.
Earlier this week, Republicans in the South Carolina House approved a sine die amendment allowing lawmakers to return after adjournment to take up congressional redistricting — joining a cluster of Southern states rushing to redraw maps after the Supreme Court gutted key Voting Rights Act protections that had long shielded Black voting power from racial gerrymandering.
But the state Senate, who convened yesterday and were expected to vote on the sine die amendment, did not take up the measure. Instead, the Senate pushed the vote to next week after some senators said they wanted to see what the new congressional map would look like.
The map, presented during Friday’s House judiciary subcommittee hearing, would carve up Clyburn’s district, which sits in the South and Eastern part of the state and includes much of the majority-Black areas around the cities Charleston and Columbia. Instead, Charleston would be divided up into two districts — districts 1 and 7, the latter of which stretches more than 100 miles from Charleston. And Richland County, which contains the state’s capital city of Columbia, would be chopped up into three different districts.
Dozens of residents testified in opposition to the map and bill to move the state’s primaries during the public comment portion of Friday’s hearing, including former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison.
Of the proposed map, Harrison said “Richland County looks like a political jigsaw puzzle.”
For hours, South Carolina residents, one after the other, stepped up to the podium to address the House subcommittee.
James Starnes, the president of a neighborhood association in Clyburn’s district, called the new map a “DEI map.”
“I’m looking at a map that says we’re not going to worry about qualifications, but we’re going to make sure that everybody is a Republican,” Starnes said. “That’s DEI, as defined by the Republican Party… This is the DEI map in my estimation.”
Chris Hemsall, a retired army colonel who also lives in Clyburn’s district, said he was “probably the most conservative person in this room,” and spoke out in opposition to the GOP’s gerrymandering efforts.
“Who thinks gerrymandering is good for democracy?” he asked the lawmakers. “Who thinks gerrymandering makes for a more perfect union? Who thinks gerrymandering establishes justice? Nobody. We all know gerrymandering is wrong, so why are we doing it?”
SOUTH CAROLINA (WPDE) — South Carolina’s 2025-2026 shellfish harvesting season will close May 27 at one-half hour after sunset, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
The closure includes oysters, clams, mussels and other bivalves from state and public shellfish grounds.
Officials said the seasonal shutdown is due to warmer water temperatures, which can increase bacteria levels and make shellfish unsafe to eat.
Recreational harvesting will remain closed through the summer and is expected to reopen Oct. 1.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources will continue its Oyster Recycling and Enhancement program year-round, collecting shells to help rebuild oyster reefs. Volunteers can also take part in summer reef restoration projects, which support water quality and marine habitats.
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For more information about shellfish harvesting regulations, click here.
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