Jump to content

Kentucky's congressional districts

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kentucky's congressional districts since 2023

Kentucky is currently divided into six congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. The number of congressional districts has been set at six since the 1990 redistricting cycle.

Current districts and representatives

[edit]

This is a list of members of the current Kentuckian House delegation, their terms, their district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI). The delegation has a total of six members, including five Republicans and one Democrat.

In 2023, Kentucky's Supreme Court upheld Republican-drawn boundaries for the state's congressional districts, finding that while the map represented a partisan gerrymander by the Republican-controlled legislature, the state's constitution does not "explicitly forbid"’ the advancement of partisan interests through redistricting.[1]


Current U.S. representatives from Kentucky
District Member
(Residence)[2]
Party Incumbent since CPVI
(2022)[3]
District map
1st
James Comer
(Tompkinsville)
Republican November 8, 2016 R+24
2nd
Brett Guthrie
(Bowling Green)
Republican January 3, 2009 R+21
3rd
Morgan McGarvey
(Louisville)
Democratic January 3, 2023 D+9
4th
Thomas Massie
(Garrison)
Republican November 13, 2012 R+19
5th
Hal Rogers
(Somerset)
Republican January 3, 1981 R+32
6th
Andy Barr
(Lexington)
Republican January 3, 2013 R+9

Historical and present district boundaries

[edit]

Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Kentucky, presented chronologically.[4] All redistricting events that took place in Kentucky between 1973 and 2013 are shown.

Year Statewide map Louisville highlight
1973–1982
1983–1992
1993–1996
1997–2002
2003–2013
2013–2023

Obsolete districts

[edit]

The following are former districts of Kentucky:

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-kentucky-supreme-court-a530ff28e3b9074bbd0de59e6a743de4
  2. ^ "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives". clerk.house.gov. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  3. ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Digital Boundary Definitions of United States Congressional Districts, 1789–2012". Retrieved October 18, 2014.