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Florida's 5th congressional district

U.S. House district for Florida

Field	Value
state	Florida
district number	5
image name
image caption	Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
representative	John Rutherford
party	Republican
residence	Jacksonville
english area	3,911
distribution ref
percent urban	83.37
percent rural	16.63
population	852,413
population year	2024
median income	$90,333
percent white	64.7
percent hispanic	12.1
percent black	11.6
percent asian	6.0
percent more than one race	4.8
percent other race	0.9
cpvi	R+10

| percent more than one race = 4.8

Florida's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. It includes the southeastern area of Jacksonville which comprises areas such as Arlington, East Arlington, Southside, Mandarin, San Jose, and the Beaches. It stretches south to St. Augustine in St. Johns County.

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. This iteration of the 5th district is now largely contained in the 11th district.

As defined by the state legislature in 2013 (which lasted until 2017), the 5th district ran from Jacksonville to Orlando; it was considered one of the most-gerrymandered congressional districts in the country. Before 2013, similar territory was included in the 3rd district.

After court-mandated redistricting, the district became a majority-minority district from 2017 to 2023. It extended along Florida's northern boundary from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and included all of Baker, Gadsden, Hamilton and Madison counties and portions of Columbia, Duval, Jefferson, and Leon counties.

The district is currently represented by Republican John Rutherford.

Characteristics

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 the Republican Party by packing black Democratic voters into District 5. 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.

On appeal, the Florida Supreme Court approved a redrawn version of District 5 on December 2, 2015. That plan went into effect for the 2016 elections. The new district had a dramatically different shape than its predecessor. It now stretched in an east-west configuration along the Georgia border from downtown Jacksonville to Tallahassee. However, it was no less Democratic than its predecessor, as noted in the Florida Supreme Court's final opinion:

Recent election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
	2008	President	McCain 61% - 38%
2010	Senate	Rubio 63% - 15%
Governor	Scott 62% - 38%
Attorney General	Bondi 65% - 28%
Chief Financial Officer	Atwater 66% - 27%
2012	President	Romney 64% - 36%
Senate	Mack IV 57% - 43%
	2014	Governor	Scott 67% - 33%
2016	President	Trump 58% - 37%
Senate	Rubio 66% - 30%
2018	Senate	Scott 60% - 40%
Governor	DeSantis 58% - 41%
Attorney General	Moody 62% - 37%
Chief Financial Officer	Patronis 62% - 38%
	2020	President	Trump 57% - 41%
2022	Senate	Rubio 64% - 35%
Governor	DeSantis 65% - 34%
Attorney General	Moody 67% - 33%
Chief Financial Officer	Patronis 66% - 34%
2024	President	Trump 60% - 39%
Senate	Scott 60% - 38%

Composition

For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of the following counties and communities:

Duval County (4)

: Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville (part; also 4th), Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach

St. Johns County (9)

: Fruit Cove, Nocatee, Palm Valley, Sawgrass, St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, St. Augustine South (part; also 6th), Vilano Beach, World Golf Village

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong
ress	Electoral history	District location
District created January 3, 1937
[[File:Joe Hendricks.jpg	100px]]
Joe Hendricks
(DeLand)	Democratic	January 3, 1937 –
January 3, 1949		Elected in 1936.
Re-elected in 1938.
Re-elected in 1940.
Re-elected in 1942.
Re-elected in 1944.
Re-elected in 1946.
Retired.	1937–1943

1943–1953
[[File:AS Herlong.jpg	100px]]
Syd Herlong
(Leesburg)	Democratic	January 3, 1949 –
January 3, 1967		Elected in 1948.
Re-elected in 1950.
Re-elected in 1952.
Re-elected in 1954.
Re-elected in 1956.
Re-elected in 1958.
Re-elected in 1960.
Re-elected in 1962.
Re-elected in 1964.
Re-elected in 1966.
Redistricted to the .
1953–1963
1963–1973
[[File:Edward J Gurney.jpg	100px]]
Edward Gurney
(Winter Park)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 1967 –
January 3, 1969		Redistricted from the and re-elected in 1966.
Retired.
[[File:Louis Frey.jpg	100px]]
Louis Frey Jr.
(Winter Park)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 1969 –
January 3, 1973		Elected in 1968.
Re-elected in 1970.
Redistricted to the .
[[File:WD Gunter JR.jpg	100px]]
Bill Gunter
(Orlando)		Democratic	nowrap	January 3, 1973 –
January 3, 1975		Elected in 1972.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.	1973–1983

[[File:Congressman Richard Kelly.jpg	100px]]
Richard Kelly
(Holiday)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 1975 –
January 3, 1981		Elected in 1974.
Re-elected in 1976.
Re-elected in 1978.
Lost renomination after involvement in the Abscam scandal.
[[File:1981 Bill McCollum p27.jpg	100px]]
Bill McCollum
(Longwood)	Republican	January 3, 1981 –
January 3, 1993		Elected in 1980.
Re-elected in 1982.
Re-elected in 1984.
Re-elected in 1986.
Re-elected in 1988.
Re-elected in 1990.
Redistricted to the .
1983–1993
[[File:Karen Thurman.jpg	100px]]
Karen Thurman
(Dunnellon)		Democratic	nowrap	January 3, 1993 –
January 3, 2003		Elected in 1992.
Re-elected in 1994.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Lost re-election.	1993–2003

[[File:Ginny Brown-Waite.jpeg	100px]]
Ginny Brown-Waite
(Brooksville)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 2003 –
January 3, 2011		Elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Re-elected in 2006.
Re-elected in 2008.
Retired due to health problems.	2003–2013
[[File:FL05 109.PNG	300px]]
[[File:Nugent Official Photo - 112th.JPG	100px]]
Rich Nugent
(Spring Hill)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 2011 –
January 3, 2013		Elected in 2010.
Redistricted to the .
[[File:Corrinebrown.jpeg	100px]]
Corrine Brown
(Jacksonville)		Democratic	nowrap	January 3, 2013 –
January 3, 2017		Redistricted from the and re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Lost renomination after criminal indictment.	2013–2017
[[File:Florida US Congressional District 5 (since 2013).tif	300px]]
[[File:Al Lawson 116th Congress.jpg	100px]]
Al Lawson
(Tallahassee)		Democratic	nowrap	January 3, 2017 –
January 3, 2023		Elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Re-elected in 2020.
Redistricted to the and lost re-election in 2022.	2017–2023
[[File:FL05 115.png	300px]]
[[File:John Rutherford official photo.jpg	100px]]
John Rutherford
(Jacksonville)		Republican	nowrap	January 3, 2023 –
present		Redistricted from the and re-elected in 2022.
Re-elected in 2024.	2023–present:
Most of Jacksonville, along with parts of that city's southern and eastern suburbs and the city of St. Augustine
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Election results

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2018

2020

2022

2024

References

Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

References

"Congressional Plan--SC14-1905 (Ordered by The Florida Supreme Court, 2-December-2015)". Florida Senate Committee on Reapportionment.
"Congressional Districts Relationship Files (State-based)". [[U.S. Census Bureau]].
"My Congressional District".
(April 3, 2025). "2025 Cook PVI℠: District Map and List (119th Congress)".
(May 15, 2014). "America's most gerrymandered congressional districts". [[washingtonpost.com]].
(24 July 2012). "Florida's 5th Congressional District". WJXT - Jacksonville.
(11 July 2014). "Florida Ruling Is A Primer On Redistricting Chicanery". National Public Radio.
(14 May 2011). "Democrat U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown again aligns with GOP in Florida redistricting battle". Tampa Bay Times.
(July 10, 2014). "Judge strikes down GOP-drawn Florida congressional lines".
(5 August 2014). "Florida elections face uncertainty as congressional maps redrawn". Thomson Reuters.
(10 July 2012). "Corrine Brown calls redistricting decision 'seriously flawed'". Tampa Bay Times.
(4 August 2014). "CBC, DCCC clash over Fla. redistricting suit". POLITICO LLC.
(11 July 2012). "Florida Redistricting Ruling Gets Mixed Reactions From Democrats". CQ-Roll Call.
(5 August 2014). "Florida Legislature: Don't talk to congressional members, political consultants". Orlando Sentinel.
Dixon, Matt. (December 2, 2015). "Siding with redistricting plaintiffs, top court upends political landscape". Politico Florida.
"Dra 2020".
"Profile of Florida's congressional districts for the 119th Congress".

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