Minnesota's 5th congressional district

Minnesota's 5th congressional district
	Minnesota's 5th congressional district – since January 3, 2013.
	Ilhan Omar; D–Minneapolis
Area	124 sq mi (320 km2)
Distribution	100% urban; 0% rural;
Population (2018 est.)	718,802
Median income	$65,782
Ethnicity	63% white; 17% black; 6% Asian; 9% Hispanic; 1% Native American; 4% other;
Cook PVI	D+26

Minnesota's 5th congressional district is a geographically small urban and suburban congressional district in Minnesota. It covers eastern Hennepin County, including the entire city of Minneapolis, along with parts of Anoka and Ramsey counties. Besides Minneapolis, major cities in the district include St. Louis Park, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, New Hope, and Fridley. It also include northeast Edina.

It was created in 1883 and was named the "Bloody Fifth" on account of the first election.^[7] The contest between Knute Nelson and Charles F. Kindred involved graft, intimidation, and election fraud at every turn. The Republican convention on July 12 in Detroit Lakes was compared to the historic Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. One hundred and fifty delegates fought over eighty seats. After a scuffle in the main conference center, the Kindred and Nelson campaigns nominated each of their candidates.^[8]^[9]

The district is strongly Democratic with a Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI) of D+26—by far the most Democratic district in the state.^[6] The 5th is also the most Democratic district in the Upper Midwest. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) has held the seat without interruption since 1963, and the Republicans have not tallied more than 40 percent of the vote in almost half a century.

The district is represented by Ilhan Omar, the first Somali American to ever serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first black woman to represent Minnesota in that chamber. Omar, also Muslim American, succeeded future Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim American to serve in Congress.^[10]^[11]

List of members representing the district[edit]

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created		March 4, 1883
Knute Nelson	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889	48th 49th 50th	[data unknown/missing] Retired.	1883–1893 [data unknown/missing]
Solomon Gilman Comstock	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	51st	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
Kittel Halvorson	Populist	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	52nd	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
Loren Fletcher	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1903	53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.	1893–1903 [data unknown/missing]
John Lind	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905	58th	[data unknown/missing] Retired.	1903–1913 [data unknown/missing]
Loren Fletcher	Republican	March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1907	59th	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
Frank Mellen Nye	Republican	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1913	60th 61st 62nd	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
George Ross Smith	Republican	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1917	63rd 64th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.	1913–1933 [data unknown/missing]
Ernest Lundeen	Republican	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919	65th	[data unknown/missing] Lost renomination.
Walter Hughes Newton	Republican	March 4, 1919 – June 30, 1929	66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st	[data unknown/missing] Resigned when appointed secretary to President Herbert Hoover
Vacant		June 30, 1929 – July 17, 1929	71st
William Ignatius Nolan	Republican	July 17, 1929 – March 3, 1933	71st 72nd	Elected to finish Newton's term. Lost re-election.
District not in use		March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	73rd	All representatives elected at-large on a general ticket.
Theodore Christianson	Republican	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937	74th	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for U.S. Senator.	1935–1943 [data unknown/missing]
Dewey William Johnson	Farmer–Labor	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	75th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl	Republican	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943	76th 77th	[data unknown/missing] Lost renomination.
Walter Henry Judd	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1963	78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.	1943–1953 [data unknown/missing]
Walter Henry Judd	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1963	78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.	1953–1963 [data unknown/missing]
Donald M. Fraser	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1979	88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for Minneapolis mayor.	1963–1973 [data unknown/missing]
Donald M. Fraser	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1979	88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th		1973–1983 [data unknown/missing]
Martin Olav Sabo	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 2007	95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th	[data unknown/missing] Retired.	1973–1983 [data unknown/missing]
					1983–1993 [data unknown/missing]
					1993–2003 [data unknown/missing]
					2003–2013
Keith Ellison	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2019	110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for Attorney General of Minnesota.	2003–2013
Keith Ellison	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2019	110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th		2013–present
Ilhan Omar	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	January 3, 2019 – present	116th	Elected in 2018.	2013–present

Recent elections[edit]

2002[edit]

2002 Minnesota 5th congressional district election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Martin Sabo	171,572	67%	−
Republican	Daniel Mathias	66,271	25.9%	−
Green	Tim Davis	17,825	7%	−

2004[edit]

2004 Minnesota 5th congressional district election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Martin Sabo	218,434	69.7%	+2.7%
Republican	Daniel Mathias	76,600	24.4%	−1.5%
Green	Jay Pond	17,984	5.7%	−1.3%

2006[edit]

Congressman Martin Sabo, DFL retired after 26 years in the House. Keith Ellison, also a DFLer, replaced him. Although Ellison was endorsed by the DFL convention, four non-endorsed candidates ran strong campaigns against him in the DFL primary: Gail Dorfman, Mike Erlandson, Ember Reichgott Junge, and Jack Nelson Pallmeyer. Ellison won the primary with 41% of the vote. In the general election, he won with 56% of the vote against Jay Pond of the Green Party, Tammy Lee of the Independence Party and Alan Fine of the Republican Party. Ellison was the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress.

2006 Minnesota 5th congressional district election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	136,060	55.6%	−14.1%
Republican	Alan Fine	52,263	21.3%	−3.1%
Independence	Tammy Lee	51,456	21%	−
Green	Jay Pond	4,792	2%	−3.7%

2008[edit]

2008 Minnesota 5th congressional district election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	228,776	70.9%	+15.3%
Republican	Barb Davis White	71,020	22%	+0.7%
Independence	Bill McGaughey	22,318	6.9%	−14.9%

2010[edit]

2010 Minnesota 5th congressional district election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	154,833	67.7%	−3.2
Republican	Joel Demos	55,222	24.1%	+2.1%
Independent	Lynne Torgerson	8,548	3.7%	−
Independence	Tom Schrunk	7,446	3.3%	−3.6%
Independent Progressive	Michael James Cavlan	2,468	1.1%	−

2012[edit]

2012 Minnesota 5th congressional district election^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	262,102	74.5%	+6.8%
	Republican	Chris Fields	88,753	25.2%	+1.1%

2014[edit]

2014 Minnesota 5th congressional district election^[14]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	167,079	70.8%	−3.7%
Republican	Doug Daggett	56,577	24.0%	−1.2%
Independence	Lee Bauer	12,001	5.1%	—

2016[edit]

2016 Minnesota 5th congressional district election^[15]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Keith Ellison	249,964	69.1%	−1.6%
Republican	Frank Drake	80,660	22.3%	−1.7%
LMN	Dennis Schuller	30,759	8.5%	—

2018[edit]

2018 Minnesota 5th congressional district election^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	Ilhan Omar	267,703	78.0%	+8.8%
	Republican	Jennifer Zielinski	74,440	21.7%	−0.6%

Election results from recent statewide races[edit]

Year	Office	Winner and results
2000	President	Al Gore (Democratic) 63–29%
2004	President	John Kerry (Democratic) 71–28%
2008	President	Barack Obama (Democratic) 74–24%
2012	President	Barack Obama (Democratic) 74–24%
2016	President	Hillary Clinton (Democratic) 74–19%
2018	Senator	Amy Klobuchar (Democratic) 80.1–14.8%

Living former Members[edit]

As of June 2019^[update], there is one living former member. The most recent representative to die was Donald M. Fraser (served 1963–1979) on June 2, 2019. The most recently serving representative to die was Martin Olav Sabo (served 1979–2007) on March 13, 2016.

Representative	Term of office	Date of birth (and age)
Keith Ellison	2007–2019	(1963-08-04) August 4, 1963 (age 56)

References[edit]

^ "Minnesota congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2010. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
^ Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
^ https://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US2705-congressional-district-5-mn/
^ ^a ^b "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
^ Martin, Lawrence (2003-07-15). "Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2". Retrieved 2007-02-27.
^ Martin, Lawrence (July 15, 2003). "Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2". Retrieved February 27, 2007.
^ Carl Zapffe (1946). Brainerd, Minnesota, 1871–1946: Seventy-fifth Anniversary. Published under the auspices of the Brainerd Civic Association.
^ Ellison, Keith [@keithellison] (June 5, 2018). "Today I am announcing my candidacy to be the People's Lawyer, and to protect and defend all Minnesotans as your next Attorney General" (Tweet). Retrieved June 5, 2018 – via Twitter.
^ Bierschbach, Briana; Bakst, Brian; Pugmire, Tim (June 5, 2018). "Filing deadline drama: Rep. Omar jumps into race for Congress". Minnesota Public Radio. St. Paul, Minnesota: American Public Media Group. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
^ "Results General November 2, 2010; Results from Congressional District 05". Minnesota Secretary of State Election Reporting System. 2011-01-19. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012.
^ "2012 General Election Results – Minnesota Secretary of State". 2012-11-06. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
^ "Ballotpedia:Minnesota's 5th Congressional District elections, 2014". Retrieved October 12, 2014.
^ "Minnesota U.S. House 5th District Results: Keith Ellison Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
^ "Ballotpedia: Minnesota's 5th Congressional District election, 2018". Retrieved February 11, 2019.

Coordinates: 44°58′52″N 93°17′39″W / 44.98111°N 93.29417°W / 44.98111; -93.29417

[1] "Minnesota congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2010. Retrieved 2007-04-02.

[2] Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

[3] Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

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

[5] ttps://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US2705-congressional-district-5-mn/

[Cook-6] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[7] Martin, Lawrence (2003-07-15). "Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2". Retrieved 2007-02-27.

[8] Martin, Lawrence (July 15, 2003). "Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2". Retrieved February 27, 2007.

[Zapffe1946-9] Carl Zapffe (1946). Brainerd, Minnesota, 1871–1946: Seventy-fifth Anniversary. Published under the auspices of the Brainerd Civic Association.

[MNAG_announce1-10] Ellison, Keith [@keithellison] (June 5, 2018). "Today I am announcing my candidacy to be the People's Lawyer, and to protect and defend all Minnesotans as your next Attorney General" (Tweet). Retrieved June 5, 2018 – via Twitter.

[MNAG_announce2-11] Bierschbach, Briana; Bakst, Brian; Pugmire, Tim (June 5, 2018). "Filing deadline drama: Rep. Omar jumps into race for Congress". Minnesota Public Radio. St. Paul, Minnesota: American Public Media Group. Retrieved August 19, 2018.

[12] "Results General November 2, 2010; Results from Congressional District 05". Minnesota Secretary of State Election Reporting System. 2011-01-19. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012.

[13] "2012 General Election Results – Minnesota Secretary of State". 2012-11-06. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

[14] "Ballotpedia:Minnesota's 5th Congressional District elections, 2014". Retrieved October 12, 2014.

[15] "Minnesota U.S. House 5th District Results: Keith Ellison Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.

[16] "Ballotpedia: Minnesota's 5th Congressional District election, 2018". Retrieved February 11, 2019.

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Minnesota's 5th congressional district

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List of members representing the district[edit]

Recent elections[edit]

2002[edit]

2004[edit]

2006[edit]

2008[edit]

2010[edit]

2012[edit]

2014[edit]

2016[edit]

2018[edit]

Election results from recent statewide races[edit]

Living former Members[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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