Massachusetts's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in eastern Massachusetts. The district is represented by Katherine Clark. Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2010 census changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012, with the new 3rd district largely taking the place of the old 5th.[3] The 5th district covers many of the communities represented in the old 7th district.
On July 15, 2013, Ed Markey resigned from the seat to become the junior Senator from Massachusetts. On December 10, 2013, Democrat Katherine Clark won a special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the 113th Congress.[4] She was sworn into office on December 12, 2013, and serves as the House Minority Whip.
The district has been in Democratic hands without interruption since 1975. Before Paul Tsongas' victory that year, it had only elected three Democrats in its entire existence and had been in Republican hands since 1895. It was one of the more moderate districts in heavily Democratic Massachusetts before redistricting in 2013. In state races, it supported Republican candidates for GovernorWilliam Weld, Paul Celluci, and Mitt Romney. In the 2007 special election to replace Marty Meehan, Republican candidate Jim Ogonowski ran an unexpectedly strong race, ultimately losing 51-45%.
History and geography
From 2013 through 2023 the municipalities of the 5th District were:
Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2020 census (commencing with the 2022 election and the 118th Congress, whose House Members were sworn in on January 3, 2023) assigns the 5th congressional district to much of Middlesex County (including cities of Framingham, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Natick, Waltham, Watertown and Woburn, towns of Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln, Maynard, Stoneham, Sudbury, Wayland, Weston, and Winchester, part of the city of Cambridge and part of the town of Belmont, part of Norfolk County (including part of the town of Wellesley) and part of Suffolk County (including the city of Revere and the town of Winthrop).
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↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1869). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Forty-First Congress (2nded.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081796686.
↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rded.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016.
↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rded.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nded.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nded.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
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Further reading
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.
The at-large and 10th–20th districts are obsolete. The 14th–20th districts moved to Maine in 1820, and the 14th–16th districts were later restored in Massachusetts.
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