Fifth Congressional District

The Fifth Congressional District will have vastly different boundaries than it did in the August primary.

The Fifth was at the center of a Republican push to redraw the state's congressional districts mid-decade to gain an advantage in the House of Representatives. The map that was redrawn by the majority-Republican General Assembly broke up Kansas City's Fifth District -- one of two safely Democratic U.S. House seats in the state.

Then it was overruled by the Missouri Supreme Court, reinstating the old map.

Incumbent Democrat Emanuel Cleaver ran unopposed in his party's primary. He's opposed by state Sen. Rick Brattin, a Republican who had hoped to run in a more rural Fifth District before the court decision.