# Does your MP / Congressperson / Deputy live in your district?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 23, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435 "2022-07-23T16:05:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/1 "2022-07-23T16:05:25Z")
Politics related, but more of a poll than a debate, so I’ll stick it in here.
Does your MP / Congressperson / Deputy at the national level live in your electoral district? How about your local representative?
My MP (Parliament of Canada) does live in the district, with his family. His kids go to a local school, and he still plays rec hockey with a friend of mine, when he’s in town.
My local MLA (provincial Legislative Assembly) lives in my district; just down the street from us, in fact, and we occasionally chat when bump into her when out for a walk. (Before she was elected our MLA, she was just one of the neighbours on the street.)
How’s it for other dopers?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/2 "2022-07-23T16:39:17Z")
My Representative (Joe Morelle) lives in my district (NY 25th). I think it would be unusual in America for a Congressional Representative to not live in the district they’re representing.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/3 "2022-07-23T18:20:16Z")
Senators have to reside in their state. Representatives don’t but it’s pretty rare. There might be a dozen or so in every congress, mostly because they are incumbents and there was redistricting that put them across the line.
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/4 "2022-07-23T19:45:11Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I think it would be unusual in America for a Congressional Representative to not live in the district they’re representing.
Actually I think a great many of them basically live in the Washington, D.C. area and just frequently visit a second home in their district. Any statistics on where their kids go to school?
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### Author:  [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/5 "2022-07-23T19:48:23Z")
My (UK) MP lives only a few minutes’ walk from me. I occasionally see him out and about, including once or twice in the local supermarket.
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/6 "2022-07-23T23:11:14Z")
Nancy Pelosi has a house in San Francisco. I did once see her in a restaurant a few blocks from my house. She also has a house in D.C. and a vineyard in Napa Valley.
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mp-congressperson-deputy-live-in-your-district/968435/7 "2022-07-24T00:50:50Z")
My MP lives–and used to be mayor of–the town adjacent to mine, so yes he lives in the district. The first time he ran, he canvassed door-to-door and I had an interesting conversation with him.
I have no idea where my MNA lives.