Virginia's 5th congressional district | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/12/2018

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Virginia's 5th congressional district


00:01:41 1 Area covered
00:01:54 1.1 Counties
00:02:43 1.2 Cities
00:02:57 2 Recent election results
00:03:07 2.1 2010
00:03:15 2.2 2012
00:03:28 2.3 2014
00:03:42 2.4 2016
00:03:55 2.5 2018
00:04:19 3 Recent voting in state-wide races
00:04:29 4 List of members representing the district
00:04:40 5 Historical district boundaries
00:04:50 6 See also



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Virginia’s fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. It is Virginia's largest district with an area of 10,181.03 square miles (26,368.7 km2) - and is larger in area than six US states.
The district’s first representative in Congress was James Madison, later the 4th President of the United States. The current Congressman is Republican Tom Garrett, who is not running for reelection in 2018. Republican Denver Riggleman was elected on November 6th and is congressman-elect. 
Historically, the 5th was one of the first districts of Virginia to turn Republican in Presidential elections – though unlike the 6th where the decisive factor was ticket-splitting by Byrd Organization Democrats, here the decisive factor was the growth of middle-class Republicanism in the Charlottesville metropolitan area. In the decade preceding the Voting Rights Act, these were joined by a significant proportion of Virginia’s limited and almost entirely white electorate who preferred GOP positions on black civil rights. The district was to be one of two in Virginia giving a plurality to segregationist George Wallace in 1968, and has never supported a Democrat for President since Harry S. Truman.
However, the district was continually represented in Congress by fairly conservative Democrats until Virgil H. Goode, Jr. switched parties, first to independent and then to Republican. In 2008 progressive Democrat Tom Perriello defeated Goode, Jr. by running on a progressive platform. Perriello lost to Republican Robert Hurt in 2010.