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Karl B. Allen (born October 13, 1960) is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the state's 7th Senate District (Greenville County, South Carolina) since 2012. Previously, he served the 25th House District in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2001 to 2012.
A diagram of the Senate Chamber, 1917. The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States presidential elections.
Under this system, the state senator from each county wielded the most power. [6] From the eighteenth century to 1973, counties in South Carolina performed limited functions such as the provision of law enforcement and the construction of transportation infrastructure. [5] In 1964, the United States Supreme Court case Reynolds v.
South Carolina's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in western South Carolina bordering both Georgia and North Carolina. It includes all of Abbeville , Anderson , Edgefield , Greenwood , Laurens , McCormick , Oconee , Pickens , and Saluda counties and portions of Greenville and Newberry counties.
Greenville County (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n v ɪ l / GREEN-vil; locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n v əl / GREEN-vəl) is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 525,534, [ 1 ] making it the most populous county in the state.
Because of the state population growth in the 2010 census, South Carolina regained its 7th district, which had remained unused since the Civil War. On January 6, 2023, a three-judge panel from the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled that the current 1st district lines were unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering ...
Voting for the 2024 election season in South Carolina starts Feb. 3. Here are the dates and deadlines to know for the upcoming elections. Greenville, Spartanburg to see state, county races ...
The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and the upper South Carolina Senate. All together, the General Assembly consists of 170 members. The legislature convenes at the State House in Columbia. Prior to the 1964 federal Reynolds v. Sims decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, each county ...