- Lead
- 35,269
- Total
- 414,850
- vs nation
- D+10.0
Oregon 5th Congressional District
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President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,645
- Total
- 427,471
- vs nation
- D+4.4
- Lead
- 10,112
- Total
- 351,496
- vs nation
- D+0.8
- Lead
- 8,290
- Total
- 305,999
- vs nation
- R+1.1
- Lead
- 26,127
- Total
- 307,256
- vs nation
- D+1.2
- Lead
- 10,161
- Total
- 305,002
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 10,050
- Total
- 252,219
- vs nation
- R+4.5
- Lead
- 9,177
- Total
- 223,142
- vs nation
- R+4.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 706,2012024 5-year
- Population density
- 126 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5,592 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,0302024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.8 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 6, OR · twin score 86.4
presidential history
Party record book
Oregon 5th Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
64.3%
29,979 votes · D+35.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 64.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
64.1%
6,115 votes · R+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 62.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
225,794votes
52.8% of the vote · D+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 217,352 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
188,149votes
44.0% of the vote · D+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 182,083 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
George McGovern1972
+12.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+10.3 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +10.8 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+31.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +24.1 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
On the ballot
Democrat Janelle Bynum holds the seat and is contesting it.
Primary held May 19, 2026. Akashic does not yet carry the nominees for this contest.
How the seat has run
| Year | U.S. House | President | Ran ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D+2.7Janelle S. Bynum | D+8.5 | −5.8 |
| 2022 | R+2.1Lori Chavez-Deremer | — | — |
| 2020 | D+6.7Kurt Schrader | D+8.8 | — |
| 2018 | D+13.2Kurt Schrader | — | — |
“Ran ahead” is how far the winning party’s House candidate ran ahead of that party’s presidential margin in the same district. A dash means the House race and the presidential figure were measured on different district lines, so the two cannot be subtracted — both are still shown unchanged.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Oregon's 5th stretches from Portland's southern suburbs through the Willamette Valley to the Pacific coast, blending reliably Democratic urban precincts with more competitive rural and exurban territory that has shifted measurably in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 43.8 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 8.5 points.
A population of 706,201, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,030 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 6 and Congressional District 4.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
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Oregon 5th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/4105/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.