Washington's 6th congressional district

Washington's 6th congressional district
Current Representative Derek Kilmer (D–Artondale)
Population (2000) 654,902
Median income 39,205
Ethnicity
Cook PVI D+6[1]

Washington's 6th congressional district encompasses the Olympic Peninsula, most of the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of the city of Tacoma. The 6th District has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Derek Kilmer, a Democrat from Artondale, since January 2013. He succeeded 36-year incumbent and fellow Democrat Norm Dicks, at the time the dean of the Washington delegation.

Established after the 1930 U.S. Census, the 6th District is a working class district, with many of its jobs provided by tourism and a declining timber industry on the Pacific and Juan de Fuca coasts, and by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.

Presidentially, the 6th leans Democratic. It was one of only two districts retained by the Democrats in the Republican wave of 1994.

Al Gore and John Kerry carried the district in 2000 and 2004 with 52% and 53% of the vote, respectively. Barack Obama swept the district in 2008 with 57% of the vote.

The district from 2003 to 2013

Voting

Election results from presidential races
Year Office Results
2016 President Clinton 51 - 39%
2012 President Obama 56 - 41%
2008 President Obama 57 - 40%
2004 President Kerry 53 - 36%
2000 President Gore 52 - 37
1996 President Clinton 50 - 36%
1992 President Clinton 43 - 31%

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates District Home Notes
District created March 4, 1933
Wesley Lloyd Democratic March 4, 1933 – January 10, 1936 Died
Vacant January 10, 1936 – January 3, 1937
John Main Coffee Democratic January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1947
Thor Carl Tollefson Republican January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1965
Floyd Hicks Democratic January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1977
Norm Dicks Democratic January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2013
Derek Kilmer Democratic January 3, 2013 – present Gig Harbor Incumbent

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Coordinates: 47°10′N 123°30′W / 47.167°N 123.500°W / 47.167; -123.500

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