| State: | South Carolina |
| District Number: | 5 |
| Image Caption: | Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023 |
| Representative: | Ralph Norman |
| Party: | Republican |
| Residence: | Rock Hill |
| Population: | 758,549 |
| Population Year: | 2022 |
| Median Income: | $66,451[1] |
| Percent White: | 64.1 |
| Percent Hispanic: | 5.4 |
| Percent Black: | 23.8 |
| Percent Asian: | 1.9 |
| Percent More Than One Race: | 3.9 |
| Percent Other Race: | 0.8 |
| Cpvi: | R+12[2] |
South Carolina's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in northern South Carolina bordering North Carolina. The district includes all of Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Union and York counties and parts of Newberry, Spartanburg and Sumter counties. The bulk of its population lives on the South Carolina side of the Charlotte metropolitan area, including the rapidly growing cities of Rock Hill, Fort Mill, and Lake Wylie. Outside the Charlotte suburbs, the district is mostly rural and agricultural. The district borders were contracted from some of the easternmost counties in the 2012 redistricting.
The district's character is very similar to other mostly rural districts in the South. Democrats still hold most offices outside Republican-dominated York County. However, few of the area's Democrats can be described as liberal by national standards; most are fairly conservative on social issues, but less so on economics. The largest blocs of Republican voters are in the fast-growing Charlotte suburbs, as well as Cherokee County, which shares the Republican tilt of most of the rest of the Upstate. York County is by far the largest county in the district, with almost one-third of its population, and its increasingly Republican bent has pushed the district as a whole into the Republican column in recent years.
In November 2010, the Republican Mick Mulvaney defeated longtime Congressman John Spratt and became the first Republican since Robert Smalls and the end of Reconstruction to represent the district. Following Mulvaney's confirmation as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a special election was held in 2017 to determine his successor. Republican Ralph Norman narrowly won the special election against Archie Parnell.[3]
From 2003 to 2013 the district included all of Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Marlboro, Newberry and York counties and parts of Florence, Lee and Sumter counties.
Counties in the 2023–2033 district map:
| Year | Office | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | President | Bush 56–42% | |
| 2004 | President | Bush 57–42% | |
| 2008 | President | McCain 53.04–45.8% | |
| 2012 | President | Romney 55.1–43.6% | |
| 2016 | President | Trump 57.3–38.8% | |
| 2020 | President | Trump 58.4–41.5% |
| Member | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history | District location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District established March 4, 1789 | ||||||||
| align=left | Thomas Tudor Tucker | Anti-Administration | nowrap | March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1793 | Elected in 1788. Re-elected in 1790. Retired. | 1789–1793 "Ninety-Six district" | ||
| align=left | Alexander Gillon | Anti-Administration | nowrap | March 4, 1793 – October 6, 1794 | Elected in 1793. Died. | 1793–1797 "Ninety-Six district" | ||
| Vacant | nowrap | October 6, 1794 – February 9, 1795 | ||||||
Robert Goodloe Harper | Pro-Administration | nowrap | February 9, 1795 – March 3, 1795 | Elected October 13–14, 1794 to finish Gillon's term and elected the same day to the next term. Re-elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. Retired. | ||||
| Federalist | March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1801 | |||||||
| 1797–1803 "Ninety-Six district" | ||||||||
| align=left | William Butler | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803 | Elected in 1800. Redistricted to the . | |||
| align=left | Richard Winn | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1813 | Redistricted from the and re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Retired. | 1803–1813 "Sumter district" | ||
| align=left | David R. Evans | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 | Elected in 1812. Retired. | 1813–1823 "Newberry district" | ||
| align=left | William Woodward | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817 | Elected in 1814. Lost re-election. | |||
| align=left | Starling Tucker | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823 | Elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1818. Re-elected in 1818. Re-elected in 1820. Redistricted to the . | |||
George McDuffie | Democratic-Republican (Jackson) | nowrap | March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 | Redistricted from the and re-elected in 1823. Re-elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Re-elected in 1828. Re-elected in 1830. Re-elected in 1833. Re-elected in 1834. Resigned to become Governor of South Carolina. | 1823–1833 "Edgefield district" | |||
| Jacksonian | nowrap | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1831 | ||||||
| Nullifier | March 4, 1831 – 1834 | |||||||
| 1833–1843 | ||||||||
| Vacant | nowrap | 1834 – December 8, 1834 | ||||||
Francis W. Pickens | Nullifier | nowrap | December 8, 1834 – March 3, 1839 | Elected to finish McDuffie's term. Also elected to the next full term. Re-elected in 1836. Re-elected in 1838. Re-elected in 1840. Retired. | ||||
| Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843 | ||||||
| align=left | Armistead Burt | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1853 | Elected in 1843. Re-elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Re-elected in 1848. Re-elected in 1850. Retired. | 1843–1853 | ||
| align=left | James L. Orr | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1859 | Redistricted from the and re-elected in 1853. Re-elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856 Retired. | 1853–1860 | ||
| align=left | John D. Ashmore | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1859 – December 21, 1860 | Elected in 1858. Re-elected in 1860 but resigned due to Civil War. | |||
| District inactive | nowrap | December 21, 1860 – March 3, 1863 | Civil War | |||||
| District dissolved March 4, 1863 | ||||||||
| District re-established March 4, 1875 | ||||||||
| align=left | Robert Smalls | Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879 | Elected in 1874. Re-elected in 1876. Lost re-election. | 1875–1883 | ||
| align=left | George D. Tillman | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1879 – July 19, 1882 | Elected in 1878. Re-elected in 1880. Lost contested election. | |||
| align=left | Robert Smalls | Republican | nowrap | July 19, 1882 – March 3, 1883 | Won contested election. Retired. | |||
| align=left | John J. Hemphill | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1893 | Elected in 1882. Re-elected in 1884. Re-elected in 1886. Re-elected in 1888. Re-elected in 1890. Lost renomination. | 1883–1893 | ||
| align=left | Thomas J. Strait | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1899 | Elected in 1892. Re-elected in 1894. Re-elected in 1896. Lost renomination. | 1893–1903 | ||
David E. Finley | Democratic | March 4, 1899 – January 26, 1917 | Elected in 1898. Re-elected in 1900. Re-elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Re-elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Re-elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916 but died before next term began. | |||||
| 1903–1913 | ||||||||
| 1913–1923 | ||||||||
| Vacant | nowrap | January 26, 1917 – February 21, 1917 | ||||||
| align=left | Paul G. McCorkle | Democratic | nowrap | February 21, 1917 – March 3, 1917 | Elected to finish Finley's term in the 64th Congress. Retired. | |||
William F. Stevenson | Democratic | March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1933 | Elected to finish Finley's term in the 65th Congress. Re-elected in 1918. Re-elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Lost renomination. | |||||
| 1923–1933 | ||||||||
James P. Richards | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1957 | Elected in 1932. Re-elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Retired. | 1933–1943 | ||||
| 1943–1953 | ||||||||
| 1953–1963 | ||||||||
Robert W. Hemphill | Democratic | January 3, 1957 – May 1, 1964 | Elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Resigned to become Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. | |||||
| 1963–1973 | ||||||||
| Vacant | nowrap | May 1, 1964 – November 3, 1964 | ||||||
Thomas S. Gettys | Democratic | November 3, 1964 – December 31, 1974 | Elected to finish Hemphill's term. Also elected to the next full term. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Retired and resigned before next term began. | |||||
| 1973–1983 | ||||||||
| align=left | Kenneth L. Holland | Democratic | nowrap | January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983 | Elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Retired. | |||
John Spratt | Democratic | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 2011 | Elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Lost re-election. | 1983–1993 | ||||
| 1993–2003 | ||||||||
| 2003–2013 | ||||||||
Mick Mulvaney | Republican | January 3, 2011 – February 16, 2017 | Elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Resigned to become director of the Office of Management and Budget. | |||||
| 2013–2023 | ||||||||
| Vacant | nowrap | February 16, 2017 – June 20, 2017 | ||||||
Ralph Norman | Republican | June 20, 2017 – present | Elected to finish Mulvaney's term. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Re-elected in 2022. | |||||
| 2023–2033 | ||||||||
In the first season of House of Cards, protagonist Frank Underwood represents the district in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat between 1990 and 2013.