Washington's 1st congressional district

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Washington's 1st congressional district
Population (2000)	654,904
Median income	$58,565
Ethnic composition	83.8% White, 1.8% Black, 7.9% Asian, 4.3% Hispanic, 0.9% Native American, 0.6% other
Cook PVI	D+7

The First Congressional District of Washington encompasses a largely suburban area north and east of Seattle like Shoreline, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Bothell, Kirkland and Redmond, as well as Bainbridge Island and part of the Kitsap Peninsula. It is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Jay Inslee, a Democrat from Bainbridge Island. From 1993 to 1995, Inslee had represented Washington's Fourth District in the central part of the state.

The former House seat of powerful Senator Warren G. Magnuson, the First was a swing district throughout much of the 1990s, changing hands and parties three times in four elections. Before the election of future U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell in 1992, the district had been in Republican hands for 40 years. Since the 1998 election, when Inslee was first elected, the First has been trending Democratic, and Inslee easily won re-election in 2006.

[edit] Representatives

In 1909, members were first elected from districted seats, instead of At-large statewide. (See Washington's At-large congressional district.)

Representative	Party	Term	District home	Note
William Ewart Humphrey	Republican	1909 – 1917
John Franklin Miller	Republican	1917 – 1931
Ralph Ashley Horr	Republican	1931 – 1933
Marion Zioncheck	Democratic	1933 – 1936
Warren G. Magnuson	Democratic	1937 – 1944
Emerson Hugh DeLacy	Democratic	1945 – 1947
Homer Raymond Jones	Republican	1947 – 1949
Hugh Burnton Mitchell	Democratic	1949 – 1953
Thomas Minor Pelly	Republican	1953 – 1973
Joel McFee Pritchard	Republican	1973 – 1985
John Ripin Miller	Republican	1985 – 1993
Maria E. Cantwell	Democratic	1993 – 1995		Lost re-election to Rick White
Rick White	Republican	1995 – 1999		Lost re-election to Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee	Democratic	1999 – present	Bainbridge Island	Incumbent

[edit] See also

• Washington United States House elections, 2006

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