SC House advances congressional maps mostly favoring Republicans

COLUMBIA — Republicans in the Statehouse are poised to approve new congressional seat lines that offer a strong advantage to GOP incumbents in Congress.

On a party line vote, the S.C. House of Representatives approved a congressional map that would solidify incumbents’ advantage by increasing the number of Republican voters in red districts and Democratic voters in the deep-blue district currently held by Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state’s lone Democrat in Washington.

A perfunctory vote Jan. 13 would send the maps to the Senate, which is still in the process of finalizing its version of the map.

The House map — which favors Republicans, but closely resemble current boundaries — have been derided by critics as being drawn on racial and partisan lines, an allegation Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee Chairman Jay Jordan, R-Florence, said is not supported by the “facts or the data.”

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