Oregon's 5th congressional district
U.S. House district for Oregon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oregon's 5th congressional district stretches from the Southeast suburbs 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, all 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.
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Area | 5,362 sq mi (13,890 km2) | ||
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Population (2022) | 719,249 | ||
Median household income | $86,573[1] | ||
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Cook PVI | D+2[2] |
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] Kurt 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.
With the exception of Chavez-DeRemer, every single representative from this district since its creation after the 1980 census has been divorced while in office.[4][5]