New Legislative Districts Revealed, LFP Now in 46th District

New legislative districts for the state of Washington were released Sunday night by the four-man committee charged with redrawing the political boundaries.

Republican redistricting commissioner Slade Gorton told the Tacoma News Tribune that the commission’s legislative remapping means that as many as 15 or 16 legislative districts could be competitive next November.

The process began in May with a series of 18 public hearings around the state, according to the News Tribune.  

Partisan legislatures fight out redistricting with the majority party in charge in many states, but Washington turned the job over to a commission in 1983 – and the rules mandate that three of the four partisan commissioners to agree on a final product. After reaching an apparent deal on congressional districts last Tuesday, the commission hit an impasse on legislative districts – until Gorton and Democrat Dean Foster broke through late Saturday night on remapping Eastern Washington, according to Brad Shannon of the News Tribune.

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Lake Forest Park will be in the 46th District which is represented by State Sen. David Frockt and Reps. Phyllis Kenney and Gerald Pollet. The 32nd Legislative

District will include all of Shoreline, part of Seattle, part of Edmonds, Woodway

and all of Lynnwood.

Ruth Kagi, a 32nd District representative, is expected to move out of her Lake

Forest Park home and move to Seattle so she can continue to serve and not run 

against the three democrats in the 46th.

Congressional redistricting was finalized on Jan. 1 as well and Shoreline and Lake Forest Park will be in the 7th Congressional District, which is represented by democrat Jim McDermott of Seattle.