BEAUFORT, S.C. (WSAV) - A new push is underway to reshape South Carolina's only Democrat-held congressional seat.

A Republican candidate for governor is promising that if he wins, he will ask the state legislature to re-draw the lines of South Carolina's Sixth Congressional District (SC-06) , Rep. Jim Clyburn's (D-SC) district.

"We're a conservative state. Six of the seven congressman are Republican," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who currently represent South Carolina's 5th District but is also running for governor, said.

SC-06 includes several areas of the Lowcountry, like Jasper and Hampton counties.

The lines for District 6 were recently redrawn in response to 2020 U.S. Census data, but, now, some lawmakers are looking shake things up going into the 2026 election cycle.

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