U.S. Representative — Florida’s 5th Congressional District
Florida’s 5th · educational cover · regional illustration
What this office is
A United States Representative is a federal legislator elected from one congressional district. Florida’s 5th is one of the state’s 28 House seats. The term is two years. The whole House stands for election every even-numbered year.
This page is Side One: inform, educate, inspire. It is not the race, not legal advice, and not an official government notice. For the 2026 cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the current Member and the official map on House.gov — Find your Representative and the Clerk of the House.
How the job fits this community
Florida’s congressional map for the 2026 ballot is HB 1D, signed 4 May 2026. North Florida’s 1st through 7th were not redrawn — those lines are the 2022 lines. The 8th is the first seat that moved. Litigation is pending. Unless a court says otherwise, HB 1D is the map. Confirm on the Division of Elections and voter lookup. Look up the address.
The 5th is southeast Jacksonville and north-central St. Johns: Arlington, Southside, Mandarin, Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, St. Augustine, Nocatee, Fruit Cove. Jacksonville is split with the 4th (west of the St. Johns, including Downtown). This is not the old Jacksonville-to-Tallahassee 5th. This is not the old Citrus / Hernando 5th. Southern St. Johns — Hastings, Butler Beach — is the 6th. Confirm the address.
Federal work here is a beach-city inbox and an old-city inbox. The Beaches file a coastal town. Arlington and Mandarin file a Jacksonville suburb. St. Augustine files the oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the country and a visitor season. Staff who still file this as a Jacksonville–Tallahassee snake, or who file all of Jacksonville here, are on a retired map.
The Representative is the human hinge between this Beaches-and-St.-Augustine map and Washington.
What the job entails
- Legislate. Introduce and cosponsor bills. Sit on committees. Vote.
- The purse. The House originates revenue bills. Appropriations decide what actually gets built or staffed.
- Oversight. Hearings and letters that watch the executive branch.
- Casework. SSA, VA, IRS, USCIS, military records, passports.
- District presence. Town halls, city halls, employers, schools — the district is the employer.
- Two homes. Washington for votes and committees. The district for the people who hired the office.
What a day is like
There is no single Tuesday. In Washington: a visitor from Jacksonville Beach and a visitor from St. Augustine. In the district: a Beaches desk and a St. Johns desk.
The staff is the office. A serious Member is a serious principal: clear priorities, honest casework, no rumor as policy.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Florida · Seat: District 5 of 28
- On HB 1D (unchanged from 2022): SE Jacksonville / the Beaches / St. Augustine
- West Jacksonville is the 4th. Not the old Tallahassee snake.
Orientation adapted from public congressional-district descriptions and Florida official election sources for education. The map and the Member of record are whatever the Division of Elections and House.gov say today.
What this is not
- Not a U.S. Senator (statewide, six-year term).
- Not the Governor.
- Not a county commission, or a mayor.
- Not a campaign flyer. This page does not tell anyone who to vote for.
Official doors
- Find your Representative
- Florida Division of Elections
- Voter lookup
- St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections
The arena: 2026 election — Florida’s 5th