Why MO-05 has unusual borders?

[iceman]

Was it created as a gerrymander to dilute the votes in Kansas City? They could have made it entirely with Jackson county and democratic portions of Clay county instead of having Ray, Lafayette and Saline which voted historically blue.

[Oryxslayer]

The map was drawn in a backroom before Ike Skelton was defeated and the MO05 arm was designed to put Skelton's home in the seat.

[iceman]

The map was drawn in a backroom before Ike Skelton was defeated and the MO05 arm was designed to put Skelton's home in the seat.

Where did Skelton lived?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The map was drawn in a backroom before Ike Skelton was defeated and the MO05 arm was designed to put Skelton's home in the seat.

Where did Skelton lived?

Lafayette County.

[voice_of_resistance]

yeah it was to prevent any type of ancestral Dem revival, which of course never came. Skelton died, and with him died any hope of MO-04 becoming blue again.

[MarkD]

Ray, Lafayette, and Saline had a history of voting Democratic, including in 2010 when they voted for Skelton's re-election instead of for Hartzler. So those three counties were put in MO-05 because of the probability that they would more likely vote for Cleaver than for Graves or for Hartzler, which has not come to pass yet. Those three counties have not stuck with their historical voting pattern; they've become like the rest of the rural counties in Missouri.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Little quirk of this district:

Jacob Turk has run as the Republican candidate seven consecutive times since 2006.  

The closest he's come to winning is ~9% in 2010 and 2014.  

[I’m not Stu]

Little quirk of this do
Istrict:

Jacob Turk has run as the Republican candidate seven consecutive times since 2006.  

The closest he's come to winning is ~9% in 2010 and 2014.  

Jacob Turk is the Mark Reed of Kansas City?