Massachusetts's 17th Worcester House district
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The 17th Worcester district is one of 160 state legislative districts for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It is located in Central Massachusetts.
Democrat David LeBoeuf of Worcester has represented the district since 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegram.com/news/20181106/in-17th-worcester-district-leboeuf-claims-seat-back-for-democrats |title=LeBoeuf claims seat back for Democrats |publisher=Telegram.com |date=2018-11-06 |accessdate=2022-04-14}} He is running for reelection in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.{{citation |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele20/state_primary_candidates20.htm |title=2020 State Primary Candidates |work=Sec.state.ma.us |access-date= August 27, 2020 }}{{citation |title= Directory: Massachusetts 2020 |url= https://directory.runforsomething.net/candidates/2020/MA |access-date= August 27, 2020 |work= Runforsomething.net |location=Washington, D.C. }}
District profile
As of the last redistricting in 2011,{{cite web|url=https://malegislature.gov/Bills/187/H3770 |title=Bill H.3770 |publisher=Malegislature.gov |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}} the district encompasses all of the town of Leicester, including the villages of Cherry Valley and Rochdale, and the southwestern portion of the city of Worcester, including the neighborhoods of Main South and Webster Square.{{cite web|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/DAL1/District|title = Representative David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf}} It has maintained these boundaries since 1995.{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796490|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1994|year = 1994}}{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796493|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1995 [Vol. 1]|year=1995}}
Leicester is a small town and developing suburb.http://www.mapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Massachusetts-Community-Types-Summary-July_2008.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} It contains the Leicester campus of Becker College and is over 90 percent non-Hispanic whitehttps://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/leicestertownworcestercountymassachusetts/PST120218 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} The Worcester portion of the district is an urban section of New England's second largest city. It contains Clark University and has significant Latino, Asian, and Black communities.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Worcester and 2nd Worcester districts.{{Citation |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1848730/-How-do-counties-House-districts-and-legislative-districts-all-overlap-These-new-tools-show-you|author=David Jarman|work= How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap? |publisher=Daily Kos |date=July 30, 2019 |title= Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= State House Districts to State Senate Districts }}
=Former locations=
List of members representing the district
- Gilbert C. Taft, circa 1859 {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1859mass/page/200/mode/2up |title=Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court |year= 1859 |location=Boston |via=Internet Archive }}
- Alfred S. Pinkerton, circa 1888 {{cite book |series= Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= 1888 State House Directory |editor=Geo. F. Andrews |publisher=Lakeview Press |chapter= Representatives: Worcester County |year= 1888 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/46/mode/2up }}
- Michael J. Fitzgerald, circa 1920 {{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 |year=1920 |publisher=Boston Review |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso1920bost }}
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General Court ! Representative ! colspan=2 | Party ! Term ! District location | |
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145th
| nowrap | G. Adolph Johnson | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | Republican | January 5, 1927 – 1928{{Cite journal|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796179|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1927|year = 1927}} | |
146th
| rowspan=3 | Victor Rolander | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Republican | rowspan=3 | January 2, 1929 – October 10, 1935{{Cite journal|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796190|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1929|year=1929}}{{Cite journal|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796219|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1936|year=1936}} | |
147th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
148th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
149th
| nowrap | Axel Sternlof | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | Republican | December 11, 1935 – 1937{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796219|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1936|year = 1936}} | |
150th
| rowspan=2 | Gustaf Carlson | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Republican | rowspan=2 | January 6, 1937 – 1941{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796222|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1937|year = 1937}} | |
151st
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
152nd
| rowspan=3 | Sven Erickson | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Republican | rowspan=3 | January 1, 1941 – 1947{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796231|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1941|year = 1941}} | |
153rd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
154th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
155th
| nowrap | Stanley Johnson | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | Republican | January 1, 1947 – 1949{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796249|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1947|year = 1947}} | |
156th
| rowspan=2 | Joseph Aspero | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Democratic | rowspan=2 | January 5, 1949 – 1953{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796254|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1949|year = 1949}} | |
157th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
158th
| rowspan=4 | Domenic DePari | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Democratic | rowspan=4 | January 7, 1953 – 1961{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796269|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1953|year = 1953}} | |
159th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
160th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
161st
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162nd
| rowspan=2 | Leo Turo | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Democratic | rowspan=2 | January 4, 1961 – 1965{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796321|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1961|year = 1961}} | |
163rd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
164th
| rowspan=5 | Robert Bohigian | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=5 | Democratic | rowspan=5 | January 6, 1965 – January 1, 1975{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796343|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1965|year = 1965}} | rowspan=5 | Worcester's Ward 2 and Ward 3{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796339|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1964|year = 1964}} | |
165th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
166th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
167th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
168th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
169th
| nowrap | Robert Reynolds | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | Republican | January 1, 1975 – 1977{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796387|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1975|year = 1975}} | rowspan=2 | Berlin, Bolton, Boxborough, Harvard, Lancaster, and Northborough{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796381|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1974|year = 1974}}https://malegislature.gov/StateHouse/MediaGallery/Image/DistrictMap-House-1973-2.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}} | |
170th
| nowrap | Walter Bickford | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | Democratic | January 5, 1977 – 1979{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796403|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1977|year = 1977}} | |
171st
| rowspan=3 | Robert McNeil | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Democratic | rowspan=3 | January 3, 1979 – 1985{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796417|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1979|year = 1979}} | rowspan=5 | Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7{{Cite journal|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796413|title = Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1978|year = 1978}}https://malegislature.gov/StateHouse/MediaGallery/Image/DistrictMap-House-1993.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}} | |
172nd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
173rd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
174th
| nowrap | William Donovan | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | Democratic | |
175th
| rowspan=14 | John Binienda | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=14 | Democratic | January 7, 1987 – 1989{{cite web|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796457 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1987 |publisher=Archives.lib.state.ma.us |date=2018-12-19 |accessdate=2022-04-14}} |
176th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=3 | January 4, 1989 – 1995{{cite web|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796473 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1989 |publisher=Archives.lib.state.ma.us |date=2018-12-20 |accessdate=2022-04-14}} | rowspan=3 | Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8{{cite web|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796460 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1988 |publisher=Archives.lib.state.ma.us |date=2018-12-19 |accessdate=2022-04-14}}{{cite web|url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/796473 |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1989 |publisher=Archives.lib.state.ma.us |date=2018-12-20 |accessdate=2022-04-14}} | |
177th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
178th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
179th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=10 | January 4, 1995 – August 22, 2014{{cite web|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/630103 |title=1995-1996 |publisher=Archives.lib.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}} | rowspan=13 | Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 3, and 4 | |
180th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
181st
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
182nd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
183rd
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
184th
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185th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
186th
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187th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | |
188th
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189th
| rowspan=2 | Kate Campanale | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Republican | rowspan=2 | January 7, 2015 – January 2, 2019 {{citation |url= https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/01/massachusetts-state-house-election-preview |title=Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election |date= November 1, 2018 |work= Wbur.org |quote= Democrats are hoping they can flip four House districts that are being vacated by Republicans }} | |
190th
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" | | |
191st
| nowrap | David LeBoeuf | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" | | Democratic | January 9, 2019 – Present |
Electoral history
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| election_title = 2018 general election
| election_note = Campanale did not seek re-election to run for Worcester Register of Deeds
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/131699/ |title=PD43+ » 2018 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}{{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/130432/ |title=PD43+ » 2016 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}
| turnout_votes = 11,487
| majority_votes = 2,146
| majority_percent = 18.7
| result = gain
| loser_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| swing = 13.7
| swing_from = Massachusetts Republican Party
| swing_to = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner = David LeBoeuf
| winner_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner_votes = 6,808
| winner_percent = 59.3
| winner_change = +14
| candidate2 = Paul Fullen
| candidate2_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| candidate2_votes = 4,662
| candidate2_percent = 40.6
| candidate2_change = −13.8
}}
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| election_title = 2016 general election
| election_note =
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/126288/ |title=PD43+ » 2014 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}
| turnout_votes = 14,713
| majority_votes = 1,340
| majority_percent = 9.1
| result = hold
| loser_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner = Kate Campanale
| winner_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner_votes = 8,011
| winner_percent = 54.4
| winner_change = +4.2
| candidate2 = Moses Dixon
| candidate2_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| candidate2_votes = 6,671
| candidate2_percent = 45.3
| candidate2_change = −4.4
}}
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| election_title = 2014 general election
| election_note = Binienda did not seek re-election and planned to retire (but died in August)
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/112912/ |title=PD43+ » 2012 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}
| turnout_votes = 9,344
| majority_votes = 43
| majority_percent = 0.5
| result = gain
| loser_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| swing = 26.5
| swing_from = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| swing_to = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner = Kate Campanale
| winner_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner_votes = 4,688
| winner_percent = 50.2
| winner_change = +26.9
| candidate2 = Doug Belanger
| candidate2_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| candidate2_votes = 4,645
| candidate2_percent = 49.7
| candidate2_change = −26.6
}}
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| election_title = 2012 general election
| election_note =
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/105701/ |title=PD43+ » 2010 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}
| turnout_votes = 13,878
| majority_votes = 7,365
| majority_percent = 53.1
| result = hold
| loser_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner = John Binienda
| winner_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner_votes = 10,595
| winner_percent = 76.3
| winner_change = -21.3
| candidate2 = William LeBeau
| candidate2_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| candidate2_votes = 3,230
| candidate2_percent = 23.3
| candidate2_change = +23.3
}}
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| election_title = 2010 general election
| election_note =
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/104650/ |title=PD43+ » 2008 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District |publisher=Electionstats.state.ma.us |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}
| turnout_votes = 8,082
| majority_votes = 7,692
| majority_percent = 95.2
| result = hold
| loser_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner = John Binienda
| winner_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner_votes = 7,887
| winner_percent = 97.6
| winner_change = -0.9
| candidate2 = All others
| candidate2_party =
| candidate2_votes = 195
| candidate2_percent = 2.4
| candidate2_change =
}}
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| election_title = 2008 general election
| election_note =
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/103369/|title = PD43+ » 2006 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District}}
| turnout_votes = 11,813
| majority_votes = 11,449
| majority_percent = 96.9
| result = hold
| loser_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner = John Binienda
| winner_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner_votes = 11,631
| winner_percent = 98.5
| winner_change = -0.9
| candidate2 = All others
| candidate2_party =
| candidate2_votes = 182
| candidate2_percent = 1.5
| candidate2_change =
}}
{{Compact election box
| election_title = 2006 general election
| election_note =
| election_ref = {{cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/111878/|title = PD43+ » 2004 State Representative General Election 17th Worcester District}}
| turnout_votes = 8,309
| majority_votes = 8,215
| majority_percent = 98.9
| result = hold
| loser_party = Massachusetts Republican Party
| winner = John Binienda
| winner_party = Massachusetts Democratic Party
| winner_votes = 8,262
| winner_percent = 99.4
| winner_change = +0.5
| candidate2 = All others
| candidate2_party =
| candidate2_votes = 47
| candidate2_percent = 0.6
| candidate2_change =
}}
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Elections results from statewide races
See also
- Massachusetts General Court
- Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Other Worcester County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th
- Worcester County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st, 2nd; Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester; Middlesex and Worcester; Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex; Worcester and Middlesex; Worcester and Norfolk
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 John H Thompson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|John H. Thompson
1918 Francis McKeon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Francis McKeon
1923 George Foley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|George Foley
1935 Victor Rolander Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Victor Rolander
1945 Sven Erickson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Sven Erickson
1953 Domenic Victor DePari Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Domenic Victor DePari
1967 Andrew Collaro Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Andrew Collaro
1967 Robert Bohigian Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Robert Bohigian
1975 Robert Reynolds Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Robert Reynolds
1983 Walter Bickford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Walter Bickford
1983 Robert McNeil Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Robert McNeil
1997 John Binienda.png|John Binienda
References
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External links
- [http://www.lwvworc.org League of Women Voters of the Worcester Area]
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