Massachusetts's 17th Worcester House district

The 17th Worcester district is one of 160 state legislative districts for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It is located in Central Massachusetts.

Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 17th Worcester district, 2013. Based on 2010 United States Census

Democrat David LeBoeuf of Worcester has represented the district since 2019.[1] He is running for reelection in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.[2][3]

District profile

As of the last redistricting in 2011,[4] 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.[5] It has maintained these boundaries since 1995.[6][7]

Leicester is a small town and developing suburb.[8] It contains the Leicester campus of Becker College and is over 90 percent non-Hispanic white[9] 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.

Leicester
Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 3, and 4

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Worcester and 2nd Worcester districts.[10]

Former locations

c. 1872: Auburn, Charlton, Southbridge, and Spencer[11]

List of members representing the district

Gilbert C. Taft, circa 1859 [12]
Alfred S. Pinkerton, circa 1888 [13]
Michael J. Fitzgerald, circa 1920 [14]

General Court	Representative		Term	District location
146th	Victor Rolander	Republican	January 2, 1929 – October 10, 1935[15][16]	Worcester's Ward 6[17]
147th
148th
149th	Axel Sternlof	Republican	December 11, 1935 – 1937[18]
150th	Gustaf Carlson	Republican	January 6, 1937 – 1941[19]
151st	Gustaf Carlson	Republican	January 6, 1937 – 1941[19]
152nd	Sven Erickson	Republican	January 1, 1941 – 1947[20]	Worcester's Ward 2[21]
153rd
154th
155th	Stanley Johnson	Republican	January 1, 1947 – 1949[22]
156th	Joseph Aspero	Democratic	January 5, 1949 – 1953[23]	Worcester's Ward 3[24]
157th	Joseph Aspero	Democratic	January 5, 1949 – 1953[23]
158th	Domenic DePari	Democratic	January 7, 1953 – 1961[25]
159th
160th
161st
162nd	Leo Turo	Democratic	January 4, 1961 – 1965[26]
163rd	Leo Turo	Democratic	January 4, 1961 – 1965[26]
164th	Robert Bohigian	Democratic	January 6, 1965 – January 1, 1975[27]	Worcester's Ward 2 and Ward 3[28][29]
165th
166th
167th
168th
169th	Robert Reynolds	Republican	January 1, 1975 – 1977[30]	Berlin, Bolton, Boxborough, Harvard, Lancaster, and Northborough[31][32][33]
170th	Walter Bickford	Democratic	January 5, 1977 – 1979[34]
171st	Robert McNeil	Democratic	January 3, 1979 – 1985[35]	Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7[36][37][38]
172nd
173rd
174th	William Donovan	Democratic	January 2, 1985 – 1987[39]
175th	John Binienda	Democratic	January 7, 1987 – 1989[40]
176th			January 4, 1989 – 1995[41]	Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8[42][43]
177th
178th
179th			January 4, 1995 – August 22, 2014[44]	Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 3, and 4
180th
181st
182nd
183rd
184th
185th
186th
187th
188th
189th	Kate Campanale	Republican	January 7, 2015 – January 2, 2019 [45]
190th	Kate Campanale	Republican	January 7, 2015 – January 2, 2019 [45]
191st	David LeBoeuf	Democratic	January 9, 2019 – Present

Electoral history

Election			Party	Votes	%	±%
2018 general election [46][47] Campanale did not seek re-election to run for Worcester Register of Deeds Turnout: 11,487	Democratic gain from Republican Majority: 2,146 (18.7%) Swing: 13.7% from Republican to Democratic	David LeBoeuf	Democratic	6,808	59.3	+14
		Paul Fullen	Republican	4,662	40.6	−13.8
2016 general election [48][49] Turnout: 14,713	Republican hold Majority: 1,340 (9.1%)	Kate Campanale	Republican	8,011	54.4	+4.2
2016 general election [48][49] Turnout: 14,713	Republican hold Majority: 1,340 (9.1%)	Moses Dixon	Democratic	6,671	45.3	−4.4
2014 general election [50][51] Binienda did not seek re-election and planned to retire (but died in August) Turnout: 9,344	Republican gain from Democratic Majority: 43 (0.5%) Swing: 26.5% from Democratic to Republican	Kate Campanale	Republican	4,688	50.2	+26.9
		Doug Belanger	Democratic	4,645	49.7	−26.6
2012 general election [52][53] Turnout: 13,878	Democratic hold Majority: 7,365 (53.1%)	John Binienda	Democratic	10,595	76.3	-21.3
2012 general election [52][53] Turnout: 13,878	Democratic hold Majority: 7,365 (53.1%)	William LeBeau	Republican	3,230	23.3	+23.3
2010 general election [54][55] Turnout: 8,082	Democratic hold Majority: 7,692 (95.2%)	John Binienda	Democratic	7,887	97.6	-0.9
2010 general election [54][55] Turnout: 8,082	Democratic hold Majority: 7,692 (95.2%)	All others		195	2.4
2008 general election [56][57] Turnout: 11,813	Democratic hold Majority: 11,449 (96.9%)	John Binienda	Democratic	11,631	98.5	-0.9
2008 general election [56][57] Turnout: 11,813	Democratic hold Majority: 11,449 (96.9%)	All others		182	1.5
2006 general election [58][59] Turnout: 8,309	Democratic hold Majority: 8,215 (98.9%)	John Binienda	Democratic	8,262	99.4	+0.5
2006 general election [58][59] Turnout: 8,309	Democratic hold Majority: 8,215 (98.9%)	All others		47	0.6

Elections results from statewide races

Year	Office	District Results	Statewide Results
2012	President[60][61]	Obama 63.2 – 34.1%	Obama 60.7 – 37.5%
2012	Senator[62][63]	Warren 56.0 – 42.9%	Warren 53.7 – 46.2%
2013	Senator[64][65]	Markey 50.1 – 49.0%	Markey 54.8 – 44.6%
2014	Governor[66][67]	Baker 46.6 – 45.9%	Baker 48.4 – 46.5%
2014	Senator[68][69]	Markey 58.9 – 35.7%	Markey 61.9 – 38.0%
2016	President[70][71]	Clinton 57.4 – 33.7%	Clinton 60.0 – 32.8%
2018	Governor[72][73]	Baker 64.2 – 33.4%	Baker 66.6 – 33.1%
2018	Senator[74][75]	Warren 57.4 – 36.9%	Warren 60.3 – 36.2%

Images

Portraits of legislators

John H. Thompson
Francis McKeon
George Foley
Victor Rolander
Sven Erickson
Domenic Victor DePari
Andrew Collaro
Robert Bohigian
Robert Reynolds
Robert McNeil
John Binienda

References

External links

League of Women Voters of the Worcester Area

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