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How Many U.S. Representatives Live Outside Their Districts?
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How many U.S. Representatives don't actually live in the district they are supposed to represent? The answer might surprise you.

Look up your Reps here:
www.govtrack.us/congress/members/AL/7#q=birmingham…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_t…

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U.S. Representatives don’t have to live in the districts they represent.

So theoretically, you could live in Ketchikan, Alaska, and represent the fine folks of Point Hope, Alaska…1,600 miles away.

Oh wait, the entire state of Alaska has only one representative, anyway.

So theoretically, you could live in Brownsville, Texas, and represent the fine folks of Texline, Texas….900 miles away. It’s kinda crazy.

What’s even crazier? According to my research, at least 55 U.S. representatives currently don’t live in the district they represent. Yep, there they all are.



Barry Moore (Alabama’s 2nd)
Eli Crane (Arizona’s 2nd)
Tom McClintock (California’s 5th)
Ami Bera (California’s 6th)
John Duarte (California’s 13th)
Ro Khanna (California’s 17th)
Jimmy Panetta (California’s 19th)
Jay Obernolte (California’s 23rd)
Grace Napolitano (California’s 31st)
Pete Aguilar (California’s 33rd)
Ted Lieu (California’s 36th)
Maxine Waters (California’s 43rd)
Juan Vargas (California’s 52nd)
John Rutherford (Florida’s 5th)
Michael Waltz (Florida’s 6th)
Gus Bilirakis (Florida’s 12th)
Anna Paulina Luna (Florida’s 13th)
Vern Buchanan (Florida’s 16th)
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida’s 20th)
Rich McCormick (Georgia’s 6th)
Lucy McBath (Georgia’s 7th)
Andrew Clyde (Georgia’s 9th)
David Scott (Georgia’s 13th)
Ed Case (Hawaii’s 1st)
Lauren Underwood (Illinois’ 14th)
Mary Miller (Illinois’ 15th)
Darin LaHood (Illinois’ 16th)
Steve Scalise (Louisiana’s 1st)
David Trone (Maryland’s 6th)
Lisa McClain (Michigan’s 9th)
John James (Michigan’s 10th)
Don Bacon (Nebraska’s 2nd)
Nick LaLota (New York’s 1st)
Paul Tonko (New York’s 20th)
Elise Stefanik (New York’s 21st)
Brandon Williams (New York’s 22nd)
Nick Langworthy (New York’s 23rd)
Greg Murphy (North Carolina’s 3rd)
Valerie Foushee (North Carolina’s 4th)
Dan Bishop (North Carolina’s 8th)
Wiley Nickel (North Carolina’s 13th)
Warren Davidson (Ohio’s 8th)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, (Oregon’s 5th)
Summer Lee (Pennsylvania’s 12th)
Michael McCaul (Texas’ 10th)
Chip Roy (Texas’ 21st)
Beth Van Duyne (Texas’ 24th)
Roger Williams (Texas’ 25th)
John Carter (Texas’ 31st)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas’ 34th)
Abigail Spanberger (Virginia’s 7th)
Don Beyer (Virginia’s 8th)
Morgan Griffith (Virginia’s 9th)
Adam Smith (Washington’s 9th)
Marilyn Strickland (Washington’s 10th)



13% of all U.S. House members represent a district they don’t live in.
You may think this is messed up, but it’s perfectly legal according to the Constitution
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@iammrbeat

10 months ago

Does it even matter that so many U.S. Representatives don't live in the districts they represent?

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@Millea314

10 months ago

One important thing to note is that, speaking for my former Rep, who's on that list, she first took office in 2019, and then re-elected in 2020 and 2022 to the same seat, but due to redistricting, her place of residence ended up in a different district.

I live on the border between those two districts and remember when they changed it, and she became the 'district next door's rep' rather than my rep.

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@pdes_

10 months ago

I have to wonder how much of this is down to redistricting, and representatives that have historically been a region's rep finding their personal residence in a new district. Why would they rebuild their base in the new district when their old base still exists?

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@brettmedley2366

10 months ago

Also, a lot of those Maryland and Virginia ones are from DC suburb districts. I imagine a lot of those representatives just keep housing in DC and find it unnecessary to live elsewhere.

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@yarielrobles9003

10 months ago

I understand why people would think this is a problem, but making this illegal would make redistricting even more abusable

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@Their.Majesty_Rin

9 months ago

The Missouri Senator, Josh Hawley, originally ran on his sister’s address while he was living in Virginia. He went to high school in Missouri but hadn’t lived there since. Ofc now he’s rich enough to have multiple residences, including one in MO, but you get my point.

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@TihetrisWeathersby

10 months ago

Constant redistricting every cycle doesn't help this, You can't be expected to sell your house and get another one

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@UnloadedRex

10 months ago

My representative is also a victim of redistricting, but also the fact that the new districts cut my city into 2 pieces. So I live in Florida district 4 and work in Florida district 5.

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@raustaklass

10 months ago

My parents' representative, well-loved in their district, got redistricted out of the district in 2020, but he still represents the same district. I think it's perfectly fine in this case, just because he knew the district so well

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@Mr.EthanJacksonsHistoryChannel

10 months ago

I’m actually surprised because I didn’t know that a representative didn’t have to serve in the district they were in

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@MrWhitmen1981

10 months ago

The problem is most people who would argue against the practice would fall in the trap of in ability to distinguish a local,state and federal issue.

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@forgottenfamily

10 months ago

Seeing a lot of names from states with large metro areas which brings up this thought: if nobody would blink twice for you to commute between your home and your district, people probably aren't going to be that bothered. Yeah, it's better if someone is living there and knows the specific issues of the district, but they still reasonably would be considered "local"...

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@stringer01

10 months ago

Just realized my representative doesn’t even live in our district! What the heck? Cmon Greg

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@lklobs

9 months ago

So proud to see my lovely home state, New Jersey, did not make the list! We have enough to worry about here with our representatives 😫

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@kfields4980

10 months ago

My congressman (Rep. Paul Tonko (D—NY-20) doesn't even in my district. I'm very surprised.

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@danielsobczak

10 months ago

When we had a special election in GA-06 in 2017, the candidate who ended up winning asked her opponent (now US Senator Jon Ossoff) who he was going to vote for. Even though he grew up in the district, he lived about a mile outside the district when he was running.

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@bradmarepublic

10 months ago

This was the case for Marc Molinaro in NY-19. He lived outside the district in Tivoli, NY until about halfway into the term when he moved to Catskill (just barely in the district)

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@johnchessant3012

10 months ago

It doesn't bother me as much. I mean, there are a few examples of this that won't appear in your list: e.g., Texas Rep. Pete Sessions represented Dallas from 1997 to 2019 until he lost re-election to Colin Allred, then moved about 100 miles to Waco and won an open seat there in 2020. Or Bill and Hillary who bought a million-dollar home in Chappaqua one year before Hillary was elected as New York's senator. Were they better representatives by virtue of the fact that they purchased property in the district right before starting their campaigns? So a simple residency requirement still makes it easy for (rich) politicians to carpetbag; on the other hand, I think requiring many years of residence in the district would be unnecessarily restrictive to voter choice.

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@JackRabbit-us9uk

10 months ago

To be fair, U.S. senators + representatives spend most of the year living in/around Washington, DC. However, they all maintain a legal/voting residence in the state they represent.

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@matthewdavis2853

10 months ago

How many members moved to run in a particular district? I know one in GA who moved from a swing district in the Atlanta suburbs to a more rural conservative district in the NW corner. Ironic that she carpetbagged to a district with the Carpet Capitol.

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