Attorney General — South Carolina
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What this office is
The Attorney General of South Carolina is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years, coterminous with the Governor. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official South Carolina sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of South Carolina. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a circuit solicitor. Solicitors are a different docket. This office is the lawyer for South Carolina.
Columbia is the capital, in Richland County. Charleston is not the capital. Forty-six counties hire the same Attorney General — the upstate, the midlands, and the lowcountry included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on scag.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Columbia that is not a Charleston harbor postcard, an upstate mill-county consumer file, a lowcountry public-integrity file that is not tourist season, and a midlands farm year that never makes a national broadcast.
Staff who only know Charleston, or only know Columbia as the whole state, are not doing the job. North Carolina is a different state. Georgia is a different state. The lowcountry remains South Carolina.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where South Carolina law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every solicitor’s circuit case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files. This office is also the state’s securities officer where the statutes actually give that.
- Two homes. Columbia for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: South Carolina · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on scag.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a circuit solicitor.
- Not a United States Senator (Class II is on 2026; Class III next 2028). South Carolina has no Class I.
- Not the Mayor of Columbia. Not the Mayor of Charleston. Not the Mayor of Greenville.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- South Carolina Election Commission
- Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of South Carolina