Missouri's 5th congressional district
Missouri's 5th congressional district has been represented in the United States [House of Representatives] by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, the former Mayor of Kansas City, since 2005.
After mid-decade redistricting in 2025, the district was redrawn to include parts of urban Kansas City, which contain much of its population, as well as many rural counties in central Missouri and the northern Ozarks. This was part of Governor Mike Kehoe's intention to redistrict the Fifth into a map favoring Republicans by adding more Republican-leaning areas, in hopes of unseating Democratic incumbent Emmanuel Cleaver. The map was passed by the legislature and will be in effect starting in the 2026 [United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri|2026 elections].
Composition
For the 118th [United States Congress|118th] and successive Congresses, and until 2025, the district contained all or portions of the following counties, townships, and municipalities:Clay [County, Missouri|Clay 'County] '
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