MINNESOTA'S 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

'Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District' is a geographically small urban and suburban congressional district in eastern Minnesota. It covers eastern Hennepin County, including the entire city of Minneapolis, along with parts of Anoka and Ramsey counties. It was created in 1883 and was named the "Bloody Fifth" on account of the first election.^[3] The district is strongly Democratic with a CPVI of D + 21.^[4]
Major cities in the district include Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, and Fridley.

Contents

Historical Representation

Elections

2006

2004

2002

References

Historical Representation

Congress	Representative	Party
'48th – 50th' (1883 – 1889)	Knute Nelson	Republican
'51st' (1889 – 1891)	Solomon Comstock	Republican
'52nd' (1891 – 1893)	Kittel Halvorson	Populist
'53rd – 57th' (1893 – 1903)	Loren Fletcher	Republican
'58th' (1903 – 1905)	John Lind	Democratic
'59th' (1905 – 1907)	Loren Fletcher	Republican
'60th – 62nd' (1907 – 1913)	Frank Nye	Republican
'63rd – 64th' (1913 – 1917)	George Ross Smith	Republican
'65th' (1917 – 1919)	Ernest Lundeen	Republican
'66th – 70th' (1919 – 1929)	Walter Newton	Republican
'71st – 72nd' (1929 – 1933)	William I. Nolan	Republican
'73rd' (1933 – 1935)	Magnus Johnson	Farmer-Labor
'74th' (1935–1937)	Theodore Christianson	Republican
'75th' (1937 – 1939)	Dewey Johnson	Farmer-Labor
'76th – 77th' (1939 – 1943)	Oscar Youngdahl	Republican
'78th – 87th' (1943 – 1963)	Walter Judd	Republican
'88th – 95th' (1963 – 1979)	Donald M. Fraser	DFL
'95th-109th' (1979–2007)	Martin Sabo	DFL
'110th- ' (2007 –)	Keith Ellison	DFL

Elections

2006

Main articles: Minnesota 5th congressional district election, 2006

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, three non-endorsed candidates ran strong campaigns against him in the DFL primary: Mike Erlandson, Ember Reichgott Junge, and Paul Ostrow. 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 is the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress.

2004

2002

References

1. Minnesota congressional districts by urban and rural population and land area
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Fast Facts
3. Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2
4. Will Gerrymandered Districts Stem the Wave of Voter Unrest?