Back 5.º distrito congresional de Oregón Spanish حوزه انتخابیه پنجم اورگن Persian Cinquième district congressionnel de l'Oregon French 5. okręg wyborczy w Oregonie Polish Oregon's 5th congressional district SIMPLE Khu quốc hội 5, Oregon Vietnamese 俄勒岡州第五國會選區 Chinese

Oregon's 5th congressional district

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Oregon's 5th congressional district
Oregon's 5th congressional district since January 3, 2023
Representative
Area5,362 sq mi (13,890 km2)
Distribution
  • 80.34% urban
  • 19.66% rural
Population (2023)709,945
Median household
income		$92,055[1]
Ethnicity
Occupation
Cook PVID+2[2]

Oregon's 5th congressional district stretches from the Southeast corner of Portland through the eastern half of the Willamette Valley and then reaches across the Cascades to take in Sisters and Bend. It includes a sliver of Multnomah County, the majority of Clackamas County, the rural eastern portion of Marion County, most of Linn County, a very small section of southwest Jefferson County, and the populated northwest portion of Deschutes County. It was significantly redrawn when Oregon gained a 6th congressional district after the 2020 census.

The district is currently represented by Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who was elected in 2022 to replace Kurt Schrader, who lost renomination to attorney Jamie McLeod-Skinner in the Democratic primary.[3] Schrader's election marked the first time in the district's history that a new representative had the same party affiliation as the outgoing representative. It was one of 18 districts that would have voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election had they existed in their current configuration while being won or held by a Republican in 2022.

Following its creation after the 1980 census, the first five members to represent the district all got divorced while in office, a pattern that has brought the district to media attention.[4][5]

  1. ^ "My Congressional District: Congressional District 5 (118th Congress), Oregon". United States Census Bureau.
  2. ^ "2022 Cook PV: District Map and List". The Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  3. ^ Lehman, Chris (May 27, 2022). "Jamie McLeod-Skinner defeats Kurt Schrader in Oregon's 5th District Democratic primary". The Oregonian. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
  4. ^ "Schraders continue divorce curse of Oregon's 5th District". OregonLive.com. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  5. ^ "Oregon District Where Every Member of Congress Divorces While in Office". AllGov. Retrieved November 6, 2018.

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