In addition to federal elections for President, Senate, and the House of Representatives, South Carolina held state elections on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.

Voters elected state senators, state representatives, solicitors and local officers, and voted in three statewide constitutional referendums.

Voters voted on Amendment 1, which amended Section 33 of Article III of the South Carolina constitution to delete a provision that set the age of consent for sexual activity for unmarried women at 14.

This amendment allowed the state legislature to set the age of consent by statute.

Amendment 3 would have amended section 16 of the Article X of the state constitution to allow local employee benefit trust funds to be invested in equity securities.