Florida's 5th House District elects one member of the
Florida House of Representatives
The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...
. The district is represented by
Shane Abbott. This district is located in the
Florida Panhandle
The Florida Panhandle (also West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida; it is a Salient (geography), salient roughly long and wide, lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia (U. ...
, and encompasses part of the
Emerald Coast
The Emerald Coast is an unofficial name for the coastal area in the US state of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico that stretches about through five counties, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay, which include Pensacola Beach, Navar ...
. The district covers all of
Walton County,
Holmes County,
Washington County,
Jackson County, and part of northern
Bay County Bay County is the name of three counties:
* Bay County, Florida, United States
* Bay County, Michigan, United States
* Baicheng County
Baicheng County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Bay County (pronounced l ...
. The largest city in the district is
Marianna. As of the 2010 Census, the district's population is 159,198.
This district contains
Chipola College
Chipola College is a public college in Marianna, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System.
History
The school was founded in 1947 as Chipola Junior College; its name was changed in 2003 after the college developed several bachelor's ...
, located in Marianna, and the
Baptist College of Florida, located in
Graceville.
Representatives from 1967 to the present
See also
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Florida's 2nd Senate district
Florida's 2nd Senate District elects one member of the Florida Senate. The district currently consists of Bay County, Florida, Bay, Calhoun County, Florida, Calhoun, Holmes County, Florida, Holmes, Jackson County, Florida, Jackson, Walton County, ...
*
Florida's 1st congressional district
Florida's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida, covering the state's western Panhandle. It includes all of Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton counties and portions of Holmes county. The d ...
*
Florida's 2nd congressional district
Florida's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. The district consists of the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle along with much of the Big Bend region along the Emerald Coast. It straddles both ...
References
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Walton County, Florida
Holmes County, Florida
Washington County, Florida
Jackson County, Florida
Bay County, Florida