Florida's 5th congressional district

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Florida's 5th congressional district
Florida's fifth congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Corrine Brown (D–Jacksonville)
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Florida's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. It stretches from Jacksonville to Orlando. It is one of the most-gerrymandered congressional districts in the country.

From 2002 to 2013 the district comprised all of Citrus, Hernando, and Sumter counties and most of Lake, Levy, and Pasco counties and portions of Marion and Polk counties. The district included northern exurbs of Tampa and western exurbs of Orlando within the high-growth Interstate 4 Corridor.

The district is currently represented by Democrat Corrine Brown.

Historical district boundaries

Prior district number 5

Florida's 3rd Congressional District was renumbered to 5th Congressional District but was little changed in the redistricting process in 2012, still winding from Orlando in the south to central Jacksonville in the north.

From 1973 to 1993 the erstwhile 3rd district was based in Orange County, including Walt Disney World and most of Orlando. The peculiar shape of the 3rd (now 5th) Congressional District dates from reapportionment done by the Florida Legislature after the 1990 U.S. Census. The 1993–2012 3rd Congressional District was geographically distinctive. Starting from the southern part of the district, it included the Pine Hills area of the Orlando-Kissimmee Metropolitan Area with small pockets of African-American neighborhoods in the cities of Sanford, Gainesville, Palatka, and finally the larger African American communities of Jacksonville. Connecting these areas were regions which are sparsely populated—either expansive rural areas or narrow strips which are only a few miles wide. Barack Obama received 73% of the vote in this district in the 2008 Presidential election.

Court-ordered changes

On July 11, 2014, Florida Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis ruled that this district, along with the neighboring District 10, had been drawn to favor Republicans. On August 1, Judge Lewis gave Florida's state legislature an Aug. 15 deadline to submit new congressional maps for those two districts.

5th District Representative Corrine Brown issued a statement blasting Lewis's decision on the district map as "seriously flawed," and Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Marcia Fudge sent a sharply worded letter to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel complaining about the party’s support for the lawsuit challenging Florida's district maps.

Brown said that "we will go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, dealing with making sure that African Americans are not disenfranchised." Florida House Redistricting Chairman Richard Corcoran, a Republican, said that "consideration of political data is legally required" to ensure that district boundaries would not be so shifted as to not allow African-Americans a chance to elect representatives of their choice.

Voting

Election results from presidential races
Year	Office	Results
1992	President	Clinton 42 - 34%
1996	President	Clinton 50 - 37%
2000	President	Gore 50 - 46%
2004	President	Bush 58 - 41%
2008	President	McCain 56 - 43%

Voter registration

Voter Registration and Party Enrollment as of January 3, 2012
Party		Voters	Percentage
	Republican	260,112	42.12%
	Democratic	217,300	35.19%
	No Party Affiliation	113,380	18.36%

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District home	Notes
District created January 3, 1937
75px Joe Hendricks	Democratic	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1949
Albert S. Herlong, Jr.	Democratic	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1967		Redistricted to the 4th district
Edward Gurney	Republican	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1969		Redistricted from the 11th district
Louis Frey, Jr.	Republican	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1973		Redistricted to the 9th district
Bill Gunter	Democratic	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975
Richard Kelly	Republican	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1981
75px Bill McCollum	Republican	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1993		Redistricted to the 8th district
Karen Thurman	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003
Ginny Brown-Waite	Republican	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2011
Rich Nugent	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013		Redistricted to the 11th district
Corrine Brown	Democratic	January 3, 2013 – present		Redistricted from the 3rd district

Election Results

2002

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2002)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ginny Brown-Waite	121,998	47.90
	Democratic	Karen L. Thurman*	117,758	46.24
	Independent	Jack Gargan	8,639	3.39
	Independent	Brian P. Moore	6,223	2.44
	No party	Others	53	0.02%
Total votes			254,671	100.00
Voter turnout			%
	Republican gain from Democratic

2004

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2004)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ginny Brown-Waite*	240,315	65.93
	Democratic	Robert G. Whittel	124,140	34.06
	No party	Others	33	0.01%
Total votes			364,488	100.00
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

2006

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2006)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ginny Brown-Waite*	162,421	59.85
	Democratic	John T. Russell	108,959	40.15
Total votes			271,380	100.00
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

2008

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2008)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ginny Brown-Waite*	265,186	61.15
	Democratic	John T. Russell	168,446	38.85
Total votes			433,632	100.00
Voter turnout			%
	Republican hold

2010

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2010)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Rich Nugent	208,815	67.43
	Democratic	Jim Piccillo	100,858	32.57
Total votes			309,673	'
Voter turnout			100.0%
	Republican hold

2012

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2012)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Corrine Brown	190,472	70.80
	Republican	LeAnne Kolb	70,700	26.30
	No Party Affiliation	Eileen Fleming	7,978	3.00
Total votes			269,153	'
Voter turnout			100.0%
	Democratic gain from Republican

2014

Florida's 5th Congressional District Election (2014)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Corrine Brown	112,340	65.47
	Republican	Glo Smith	59.237	34.53
Total votes			171,577	'
Voter turnout			100.0%
	Democratic hold

Living former Representatives

As of May 2015, there are four former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 5th congressional district who are currently living at this time.

Representative	Term of office	Date of birth (and age)
Louis Frey, Jr.	1969–1973	(1934-01-11) January 11, 1934
Karen Thurman	1993–2003	(1951-01-12) January 12, 1951
Ginny Brown-Waite	2003–2011	(1943-10-05) October 5, 1943
Rich Nugent	2011–2013	(1951-05-26) May 26, 1951

References

• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present