Congressman Akin Moves West; Ballwin and Ellisville Unaffected

Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin is moving from Town and Country to Wildwood, just weeks after announcing his bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in the 2012 elections.

The move also comes shortly after state lawmakers OK'd a new congressional district map, but both Ballwin and Ellisville will remain under Akin's representation, Press Secretary Steve Taylor said.

"He changed his voter registration at the end of May," said Akin's Press Secretary Steve Taylor. "He's in the process of changing the automobile registration and all other things that apply. A  lot of things were at the Town and Country home. He's lived there for 50 years."

Akin represents both Town and Country and Manchester and is currently serving his sixth term as a U.S. Congressman representing the 2nd district.

According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jake Wagman, Akin switched his registration the same day the Post-Dispatch questioned whether Akin was voting in the correct city.

Taylor told Patch that the article is not the reason that Akin is moving.

"Yes,  he did move his voter registration, but it has nothing to do with Wagman's story," Taylor said. "It had to do with the fact they completed the transition from one home to the next, and Town and Country approved the subdividing of the Akin property at the end of May."

Taylor said the home at 305 Conway Hill Rd. in Town and Country has been in the Akin family for decades and is owned by Todd Akin's father. Taylor said Todd Akin and his father decided to subdivide and raze the old Akin homestead, so in in 2007, Todd Akin bought another home in Wildwood.

"The Akins have been living and transitioning from one place to another. They moved everything out of the old (Town and Country) residence and into the new Wildwood home," Taylor said. "They are going to be razing the old Akin homestead soon."

 Akin has also posted information about the move on his campaign website,

"Representative Todd Akin-Wildwood, that's his new official title," Taylor said.