Oregon’s 5th Congressional District Race: Chavez-DeRemer And Bynum Lead In Rematch‌ ‌

window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({article:'auto'}); !function (e, f, u, i) { if (!document.getElementById(i)){ e.async = 1; e.src = u; e.id = i; f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f); } }(document.createElement('script'), document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0], '//cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/zengernews-network/loader.js', 'tb_loader_script'); if(window.performance && typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');} window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-160618588-3',{'custom_map': {'dimension1': 'story_id'},'story_id': ''}); By Briana Ryan Six candidates are running in the general election for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024. Incumbent Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) and Janelle Bynum (D) lead in endorsements, campaign finance, and media attention. This third rematch between Chavez-DeRemer and Bynum will take place in a district that Joe Biden (D) won by 8.8 percentage points. Bynum defeated Chavez-DeRemer twice to represent District 51 in the Oregon House of Representatives. In 2016, Bynum defeated Chavez-DeRemer 51.% to 49%. In 2018, Bynum defeated Chavez-DeRemer 54% to 46%. OPB’s Bryce Dole wrote that those elections were in “a much smaller, suburban area around Happy Valley in Clackamas County.” The district is one of 19 Republican-held U.S. House districts up for election in 2024 that Biden won in the 2020 presidential election. Biden won the district by 8.8 percentage points that year. Democratic lawmakers represented the district from...