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So far, 68 of the 194 Democratic members of the House have announced they will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Friday, with more adding their names to the list with every passing hour. The remaining 126 are either attending or have not made their intentions clear. As shown above, we’ve mapped out the districts of who is and isn’t going, with each district equally sized so that compact urban districts don’t get overshadowed (you can see a larger version here).
To find out more about each member and the districts they represent, check out our comprehensive guide to the 115th Congress members and districts, which contains our calculations of the 2016 presidential election results for each congressional district, along with a whole host of other statistics.
Using those presidential results, we’ve also mapped out the presidential outcome by district for each member who says he or she will not attend the inauguration (see the graphic below the fold). Overall, those members who are skipping tend to come from relatively safely Democratic districts, though there are some notable exceptions. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who represents New Hampshire’s 1st District, actually sits in a seat that Trump carried by 48-47, making her the only Trump-district Democrat on the list of no-shows so far.
Meanwhile, a couple of Oregon Congress members—4th District Rep. Peter DeFazio and 5th District Rep. Kurt Schrader—both represent very swingy districts that Hillary Clinton only narrowly won, and both also say they won’t be at inauguration. Given the broad range of Democrats who’ve said they’ll be elsewhere on Friday, it won’t be surprising to see a lot more names added to the list as the week progresses, so we’ll be updating this map regularly.
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