Kentucky's 5th congressional district

Kentucky's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Located in the heart of Appalachia in Southeastern Kentucky, the rural district is the second most impoverished district in the nation[5] and, as of the 2010 U.S. Census, has the highest percentage of White Americans in the nation. Within the district are the economic leading cities of Pikeville, Prestonsburg, Middlesboro, Hazard, Jackson, Morehead, London, and Somerset.

"KY-5" redirects here. For the state route, see Kentucky Route 5.

Kentucky's 5th congressional district
Kentucky's 5th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Hal Rogers R–Somerset
Distribution	76.49% rural[1] 23.51% urban
Population (2016)	703,315[2]
Median income	$31,731[3]
Ethnicity	96.82% white 1.54% Hispanic 1.51% black 0.27% Native American 0.26% Asian
Cook PVI	R+31[4]

Sign in front of the McCracken, Kentucky Courthouse (in Paducah, Kentucky) commemorating early members of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Jackson Purchase (U.S. historical region). The "First District" in the title actually changed over time. It refers to the Jackson Purchase, which was in the 5th district from 1819 to 1823, the 12th district until 1833, and then the 1st district until the end of the sign's lineage in 1855.

The 5th congressional district is one of the few ancestrally Republican regions south of the Ohio River. Much of the region now in the district strongly supported the Union in the Civil War, and identified with the Republicans after hostilities ceased. Much of the eastern portion of the district was once part of the disbanded 7th congressional district, long a Democratic stronghold. The 7th was disbanded in 1992 after the 1990 census showed that the state's population no longer merited seven districts. Geographically, the district consists of flat land areas to the west, to Appalachia highland mountains to the east and southeast. To the north to northeast of the district are rolling hills that end at the Ohio River.

The district is represented by Republican Harold D. "Hal" Rogers, the dean of the Kentucky delegation. Rogers serves in various leadership positions in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Characteristics

As of September 2013, there were 510,329 registered voters: 253,798 (49.73%) Democrats, 235,470 (46.14%) Republicans, and 21,061 (4.13%) "Others". All of the "Others" included 15,344 (3.01%) unclassified Others, 5,385 (1.06%) Independents, 241 (0.05%) Libertarians, 43 (0.0084%) Greens, 21 (0.0041%) Constitutionalists, 20 (0.0039%) Reforms, and 7 (0.0014%) Socialist Workers.[6][7]

Until January 1, 2006, Kentucky did not track party affiliation for registered voters who were neither Democratic nor Republican.[8] The Kentucky voter registration card does not explicitly list anything other than Democratic Party, Republican Party, or Other, with the "Other" option having a blank line and no instructions on how to register as something else.[9]

Recent presidential elections

Election results from presidential races
Year	Office	Results
2000	President	Bush 57 - 42%
2004	President	Bush 61 - 39%
2008	President	McCain 67 - 31%
2012	President	Romney 75 - 23%
2016	President	Trump 80 - 18%

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	Location
District created		March 4, 1803
John Fowler	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807	8th 9th	Redistricted from the 2nd district and re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Retired.	Clarke, Fayette, Jessamine, Montgomery, and Woodford counties
Benjamin Howard	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1807 – April 10, 1810	10th 11th	Elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Resigned to become governor of Louisiana Territory.
William T. Barry	Democratic-Republican	August 8, 1810 – March 3, 1811	11th	Elected to finish Howard's term. Retired.
Henry Clay	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813	12th	Elected in 1810. Redistricted to the 2nd district.
Samuel Hopkins	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815	13th	Elected in 1812. Retired.	Breckinridge, Caldwell, Christian, Grayson, Henderson, Hopkins, Livingston, Muhlenberg, Ohio, and Union counties
Alney McLean	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817	14th	Elected in 1814. Retired.
Anthony New	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819	15th	Elected in 1816. Retired.
Alney McLean	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821	16th	Elected in 1818. Retired.
Anthony New	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823	17th	Elected in 1820. [data unknown/missing]
John T. Johnson	Jackson Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th	Redistricted from the 3rd district and re-elected in 1822. [data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
James Johnson	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – August 13, 1826	19th	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Robert L. McHatton	Jacksonian	December 7, 1826 – March 3, 1829	19th 20th	[data unknown/missing]
Richard M. Johnson	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833	21st 22nd	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 13th district.
Vacant		March 4, 1833 – August 6, 1834	House declared new election after election was contested	Garrard County added to the district.
Robert P. Letcher	Anti-Jacksonian	August 6, 1834 – March 3, 1835	23rd
James Harlan	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	24th 25th		[data unknown/missing]
	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839			[data unknown/missing]
Simeon H. Anderson	Whig	March 4, 1839 – August 11, 1840	26th		[data unknown/missing] Died.
John B. Thompson	Whig	December 7, 1840 – March 3, 1843	26th 27th		[data unknown/missing]
James W. Stone	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	28th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Bryan Young	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	29th	[data unknown/missing]
John B. Thompson	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851	30th 31st	[data unknown/missing]
James W. Stone	Democratic	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	32nd	[data unknown/missing]
Clement S. Hill	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Joshua Jewett	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859	34th 35th	[data unknown/missing]
John Y. Brown	Democratic	December 3, 1860 – March 3, 1861	36th	Did not take seat until 2nd session because did not meet age requirement for office
Charles A. Wickliffe	Unionist	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	37th	[data unknown/missing]
Robert Mallory	Unionist	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	38th	Redistricted from the 7th district. [data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Lovell Rousseau	Unconditional Unionist	March 4, 1865 – July 21, 1866	39th	[data unknown/missing] Resigned.
Lovell Rousseau	Unconditional Unionist	December 3, 1866 – March 3, 1867	39th	Re-elected to seat
Asa Grover	Democratic	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869	40th	[data unknown/missing]
Boyd Winchester	Democratic	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873	41st 42nd	[data unknown/missing]
Elisha Standiford	Democratic	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	[data unknown/missing]
Edward Y. Parsons	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – July 8, 1876	44th	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Henry Watterson	Democratic	August 12, 1876 – March 3, 1877	44th	[data unknown/missing]
Albert S. Willis	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1887	45th 46th 47th 48th 49th	[data unknown/missing]
Asher G. Caruth	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1895	50th 51st 52nd 53rd	[data unknown/missing]
Walter Evans	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899	54th 55th	[data unknown/missing]
Oscar Turner	Democratic	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901	56th	[data unknown/missing]
Harvey S. Irwin	Republican	March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903	57th	[data unknown/missing]
J. Swagar Sherley	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1919	58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th	[data unknown/missing]
Charles F. Ogden	Republican	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923	66th 67th	[data unknown/missing]
Maurice Thatcher	Republican	March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1933	68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
District not used		March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935
Brent Spence	Democratic	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1943	74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	Redistricted from the at-large district and re-elected in 1934. [data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
		January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1943			[data unknown/missing]
		January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963			[data unknown/missing]
Eugene Siler	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965	88th	Redistricted from the 8th district and re-elected in 1962. [data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Tim Lee Carter	Republican	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1973	89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th	[data unknown/missing]
		January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1981			[data unknown/missing]
Hal Rogers	Republican	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983	97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th	Incumbent
		January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993			[data unknown/missing]
		January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003			[data unknown/missing]
		January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013			2003 – 2013
		January 3, 2013 – Present			2013 – Present

Recent election results

2002

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2002)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	137,986	78.29
	Democratic	Sidney Jane Bailey	38,254	21.71
Total votes			176,240	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2004

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2004)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	177,579	100.00
Total votes			177,579	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2006

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2006)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	147,261	73.76
	Democratic	Kenneth Stepp	52,384	26.24
Total votes			199,645	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2008

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2008)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	177,024	84.11
	Independent	Jim Holbert	33,444	15.89
Total votes			210,468	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2010

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2010)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	151,019	77.43
	Democratic	Jim Holbert	44,034	22.58
Total votes			195,053	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2012

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2012)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	195,408	77.90
	Democratic	Kenneth S. Stepp	55,447	22.10
Total votes			250,855	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2014

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2014)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	171,350	78.30
	Democratic	Kenneth S. Stepp	47,617	21.70
Total votes			218,967	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2016

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2016)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	221,242	100.00
Total votes			221,242	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2018

Kentucky's 5th Congressional District Election (2018)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Hal Rogers*	172,093	78.9
	Democratic	Kenneth Stepp	45,890	21.0
	Independent	Bill Ray (write-in)	34	0.1
Total votes			218,017	100.0
	Republican hold

See also

• Kentucky's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

1. Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
2. Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
3. Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
4. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
5. "Rich, poor, young, old: Congressional districts at a glance".
6. "Registration Statistics: By Congression District". Kentucky State Board of Elections. September 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
7. "Registration Statistics: Other Political Organizations and Groups". Kentucky State Board of Elections. September 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
8. "Kentucky Administrative Regulations 31KAR4:150". Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. November 2005. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
9. "Register To Vote". Kentucky State Board of Elections. August 2003. Retrieved 2014-02-06.

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