Missouri 5th District

Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat, was the target of a Republican-led redistricting effort aimed at booting him from office. After a legal back-and-forth, residents voted using the 2022 congressional map that kept the Kansas City area intact.

The Kansas City Local Investment Commission, or LINC, helped over 70 high school seniors, first time voters, get to the polls on Election Day.

Missouri polling places are open from 6 a.m.-7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 3. See results as they come in for the U.S. House contests, constitutional amendment and ballot questions.

Election Day is Tuesday. Voters in Kansas and Missouri will weigh in on important ballot issues such as abortion and redistricting, and decide competitive races for U.S. Senate, governor and more.

Missouri Proposition A will determine whether a map designed to give Republicans another U.S. House seat takes effect in 2028. While the campaign to defeat the map has drawn millions of dollars in donations, there's no organized effort to pass it.

Missouri lawmakers redrew the state’s congressional lines in 2025, in an attempt to oust Kansas City Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and add a Republican seat to the U.S. House. But after a successful petition campaign, the new map was blocked from taking effect for this election, and voters in November will decide whether to approve or reject it.

This is the third time the high court has stymied efforts to implement a map aimed at ousting Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II for this November's election.

A federal appeals court has again sided with Missouri Republicans, ruling the state must use the GOP-leaning congressional map passed by lawmakers last year. Plus: how new limits on federal student loans are impacting future physicians in Kansas.

After the Missouri and U.S. Supreme Courts ruled that Missourians must vote with maps drawn in 2022, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II is running for reelection in the same district he won with more than 60% of the vote. He'll face Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that using 2022 congressional lines for the upcoming election violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding whether to order the November election to be held in the same district lines used for the primary. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled a referendum made that map, drawn in 2025 to benefit Republicans, has no legal effect.

The legal back-and-forth over Missouri's congressional maps is unprecedented in American politics. Current 5th District U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his Republican opponent, state Sen. Rick Brattin, share their thoughts on what transpired in the courts — and what it may mean for November.