Florida's 5th congressional district

Infobox U.S. congressional district
state = Florida
district number = 5


representative = Ginny Brown-Waite
party = Republican
english area = 4,801
metric area =
percent urban = 64.5
percent rural = 35.5
population = 639,295
population year = 2000
median income = 34,815
percent white = 87.7
percent black = 4.5
percent asian = 0.8
percent native american = 0.3
percent hispanic = 5.6
percent other race = 0.1
percent blue collar =
percent white collar =
percent gray collar =
cpvi = R+5

Florida's 5th Congressional District comprises all of or parts of Pasco County, Hernando County, Lake County, Citrus County, Levy County, Marion County, Polk County, Sumter County. The residents of this district are currently represented by Brooksville Republican Ginny Brown-Waite.

The Florida state legislature redrew the boundaries of district 5 after the United States Census, 2000. The areas that were removed include the coastal cities of Port Richey and New Port Richey. George W. Bush received 58% of the vote in this district in 2004.

In 2002, Ginny Brown-Waite won election over incumbent Karen Thurman by a narrow margin in one of a handful of close races that cycle. In 2004, Brown-Waite won reelection over Hernando County attorney and Naval Reservist [ [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/01/news_pf/Tampabay/5th_Congressional_Dis.shtml Tampabay: 5th Congressional District: Whittel wins; to face Brown-Waite ] ] Robert Whittel with 66% of the vote. In 2006, she cruised to re-election for a third full term against poorly-funded challenger John Russel of Dade City with 59% of the vote

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