Indiana's 5th congressional district

Indiana's 5th congressional district
	Indiana's 5th congressional district since January 3, 2013
	Susan Brooks; R–Carmel
Area	3,266.14 sq mi (8,459.3 km2)
Distribution	74.53% urban; 25.47% rural;
Population (2018 est.)	784,462
Median income	$70,977[1]
Ethnicity	80% white[2]; 9% black; 5% Hispanic; 4% Asian; 3% other; 0% Native American;
Cook PVI	R+9[3]

Indiana's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana that takes the north side of Indianapolis as well as its eastern and northern suburbs, including Marion, Carmel, Anderson, Noblesville, Fishers, and parts of Kokomo. This suburban district is predominantly white and is the wealthiest congressional district in Indiana, per median income.

The district is currently represented by Republican Susan Brooks. On June 14, 2019, Brooks announced that she would not run for reelection in 2020.

Recent election results from statewide races

Year	U.S. President	U.S. Senator[4]	Governor
2000	Bush (R): 69 – 30%	[Data unknown/missing]	[Data unknown/missing]
2004	Bush (R): 71 –28%	[Data unknown/missing]	[Data unknown/missing]
2008	McCain (R): 59 – 40%	—	[Data unknown/missing]
2012	Romney (R): 58 – 41%	Donnelly (D): 47.4 – 46.2%	[Data unknown/missing]
2016	Trump (R): 53 – 41%	[Data unknown/missing]	[Data unknown/missing]
2018	—	Donnelly (D): 48.4 – 47.9%	—

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created		March 4, 1833
Johnathan McCarty	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd 24th	Redistricted from the 3rd district and re-elected in 1832. [data unknown/missing]
Johnathan McCarty	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	23rd 24th
James Rariden	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841	25th 26th	[data unknown/missing]
Andrew Kennedy	Democratic	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district.
William J. Brown	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	28th	[data unknown/missing]
William W. Wick	Democratic	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1849	29th 30th	[data unknown/missing]
William J. Brown	Democratic	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851	31st	[data unknown/missing]
Thomas A. Hendricks	Democratic	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	32nd	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 6th district.
Samuel W. Parker	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	Redistricted from the 4th district and re-elected in 1852. [data unknown/missing]
David P. Holloway	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	34th	[data unknown/missing]
David Kilgore	Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1861	35th 36th	[data unknown/missing]
George W. Julian	Republican	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1869	37th 38th 39th 40th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 4th district.
John Coburn	Republican	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1875	41st 42nd 43rd	Redistricted from the 6th district and re-elected in 1868. [data unknown/missing]
William S. Holman	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	Redistricted from the 3rd district and re-elected in 1874. [data unknown/missing]
Thomas M. Browne	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881	45th 46th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 6th district.
Courtland C. Matson	Democratic	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1889	47th 48th 49th 50th	[data unknown/missing]
George W. Cooper	Democratic	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895	51st 52nd 53rd	[data unknown/missing]
Jesse Overstreet	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	54th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 7th district.
George W. Faris	Republican	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901	55th 56th	Redistricted from the 8th district and re-elected in 1896. [data unknown/missing]
Elias S. Holliday	Republican	March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1909	57th 58th 59th 60th	[data unknown/missing]
Ralph Wilbur Moss	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1917	61st 62nd 63rd 64th	[data unknown/missing]
Everett Sanders	Republican	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1925	65th 66th 67th 68th	[data unknown/missing]
Noble J. Johnson	Republican	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1931	69th 70th 71st	[data unknown/missing]
Courtland C. Gillen	Democratic	March 4, 1931 – March 3, 1933	72nd	[data unknown/missing]
Glenn Griswold	Democratic	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939	73rd 74th 75th	Redistricted from the 11th district and re-elected in 1932. [data unknown/missing]
Forest Harness	Republican	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1949	76th 77th 78th 79th 80th	[data unknown/missing]
John R. Walsh	Democratic	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951	81st	[data unknown/missing]
John V. Beamer	Republican	January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1959	82nd 83rd 84th 85th	[data unknown/missing]
J. Edward Roush	Democratic	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1969	86th 87th 88th 89th 90th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 4th district and lost re-election.
Richard L. Roudebush	Republican	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971	91st	Redistricted from the 10th district and re-elected in 1968. [data unknown/missing]
Elwood Hillis	Republican	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1987	92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th	[data unknown/missing]
Jim Jontz	Democratic	January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1993	100th 101st 102nd	[data unknown/missing]	The two different locations of the 5th district from 1982 to 2013 2003–2013
Steve Buyer	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003	103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 4th district.
Dan Burton	Republican	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013	108th 109th 110th 111th 112th	Redistricted from the 6th district and re-elected in 2002. [data unknown/missing]
Susan Brooks	Republican	January 3, 2013 – Present	113th 114th 115th 116th	Incumbent. Retiring.

Election results

2002

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2002)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dan Burton*	129,442	71.97
	Democratic	Katherine Fox Carr	45,283	25.18
	Libertarian	Christopher Adkins	5,130	2.85
Total votes			179,855	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2004

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2004)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dan Burton*	228,718	71.84
	Democratic	Katherine Fox Carr	82,637	25.96
	Libertarian	Rick Hodgin	7,008	2.20
Total votes			318,363	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2006

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2006)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dan Burton*	133,118	64.96
	Democratic	Katherine Fox Carr	64,362	31.41
	Libertarian	Sheri Conover Sharlow	7,431	3.63
Total votes			204,821	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2008

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2008)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dan Burton*	234,507	65.59
	Democratic	Mary Etta Ruley	123,021	34.41
Total votes			357,528	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2010

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2010)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dan Burton*	146,899	62.14
	Democratic	Tim Crawford	60,024	25.39
	Libertarian	Richard Reid	18,266	7.73
	Independent	Jesse C. Trueblood	11,218	4.75
Total votes			236,407	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2012

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2012)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Susan Brooks	194,570	58.37
	Democratic	Scott Reske	125,347	37.60
	Libertarian	Chard Reid	13,442	4.03
Total votes			333,359	100.00
Turnout				58
	Republican hold

2014

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2014)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Susan Brooks*	105,277	65.21
	Democratic	Shawn Denney	49,756	30.82
	Libertarian	John Krom	6,407	3.97
Total votes			161,440	100.00
Turnout				26
	Republican hold

2016

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2016)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Susan Brooks*	221,957	61.46
	Democratic	Angela Demaree	123,849	34.29
	Libertarian	Matthew Wittlief	15,329	4.24
Total votes			361,135	100.00
Turnout				57
	Republican hold

2018

Indiana's 5th Congressional District election (2018)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Susan Brooks*	180,035	56.76
	Democratic	Dee Thornton	137,142	43.24
Total votes			317,177	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2020

Indiana's 5th congressional district, 2020
Party		Candidate	%
	Republican	Victoria Spartz
	Democratic	Christina Hale
	Libertarian	Ken Tucker
Total votes			100.0

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References

Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
"Census profile: Congressional District 5, IN". Census Reporter.
"Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
"IN-05 Senate Elections 2012 and 2018". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-07-03.

External links

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

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[1] Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.

[2] "Census profile: Congressional District 5, IN". Census Reporter.

[Cook-3] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[4] "IN-05 Senate Elections 2012 and 2018". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-07-03.