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24,000-plus SC voters cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday's runoff

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Of the 13 primary runoff races June 25, eight are Senate races and four are House races.

More than 24,000 South Carolina voters have already cast ballots early in runoff races that will help decide who will represent parts of the Upstate to the Midlands for the next two to four years.

There's the Republican 3rd Congressional District race that pits former President Donald Trump-backed Pastor Mark Burns against Gov. Henry McMaster's preferred choice of Sheri Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard lieutenant colonel.

In Lexington County, Republican voters will decide whether the current longest-serving female senator Katrina Shealy — one of the "sister senators" — should stay in the upper chamber, or whether attorney Carlisle Kennedy, the son of a former lawmaker, deserves a first term.

Eight Senate races and four House races are included in the 13 runoff races that will be decided Tuesday. Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Polling precincts can be found on the State Election Commission's website.

SC runoff races

  • U.S. House District 3 (Republican): Sheri Biggs vs. Mark Burns
  • S.C. Senate District 6 (Republican): Ben Carper vs. state Rep. Jason Elliott
  • S.C. Senate District 10 (Republican): Charles Bumgardner vs. Sen. Billy Garrett
  • S.C. Senate District 12 (Republican): Former Sen. Lee Bright vs. Rep. Roger Nutt
  • S.C. Senate District 22 (Democratic): State Rep. Ivory Thigpen vs. Overture Walker
  • S.C. Senate District 23 (Republican): Carlisle Kennedy vs. Sen. Katrina Shealy
  • S.C. Senate District 26 (Republican): Jason Guerry vs. Chris Smith
  • S.C. Senate District 35 (Democratic): Austin Floyd vs. Jeffrey Graham
  • S.C. Senate District 35 (Republican): Lindsay Agostini vs. Mike Jones
  • S.C. House District 9 (Republican): James Galyean vs. Blake Sanders
  • S.C. House District 28 (Republican): Chris Huff vs. Kerri Smith
  • S.C. House District 34 (Republican): Sarita Edgerton vs. JoAnne LaBounty
  • S.C. House District 93 (Democratic): Johnny Felder vs. former Rep. Jerry Govan
Maayan Schechter (My-yahn Schek-ter) is a news reporter with South Carolina Public Radio and ETV. She worked at South Carolina newspapers for a decade, previously working as a reporter and then editor of The State’s S.C. State House and politics team, and as a reporter at the Aiken Standard and the Greenville News. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Asheville in 2013.