--- type: Person title: "Karl Allen" description: "SC Senate District 7 — SC State Senate District 7" role: "SC Senate District 7" party: "D" level: "state" branch: "legislative" state: "SC" district: "SC State Senate District 7" represents: "us/states/sc/districts/senate/7" tenure: start: "2025-01-01" current: true election: term_length: 2 term_limit: "varies" ids: person: "5b0c71f9-66be-4740-aacd-d5e93e8cff3b" office: "7f6c54f0-ed48-4e33-b1bc-bd9a5a3315ce" tenure: "2b59d450-965a-40bb-b18e-0b0d2ebcaae0" jurisdiction: "08cbc7e5-0352-4f8f-a316-8afd291437f1" sources: - field: tenure source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "SLDU (Census 2025)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, sc] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # Karl Allen Current SC Senate District 7 (SC State Senate District 7). Represents [SC State Senate District 7](/us/states/sc/districts/senate/7.md). ## Sources - tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).