Washington's 9th congressional district

Infobox U.S. congressional district
state = Washington
district number = 9

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representative = Adam Smith
party = Democratic
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population = 654,902
population year = 2000
median income = 46,495
percent white = 76.0
percent black = 6.5
percent asian = 7.2
percent native american =1.3
percent hispanic = 6.7
percent other race = 1.8
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cpvi = D+6

The Ninth Congressional District of Washington encompasses a long, somewhat narrow area in western Washington that largely follows Interstate 5 through the densely-populated central Puget Sound region, from Olympia in the south to Renton in the north. Since 1997, the Ninth has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Adam Smith, a Democrat from SeaTac.

Established after the 1990 census, the Ninth District is Washington's newest congressional district. It was originally drawn as a "fair fight" district. The first representative from the Ninth, Democrat Mike Kreidler, was defeated after one term by conservative Republican Randy Tate; Tate, in turn, was defeated after one term by Smith. Kreidler currently serves as the state insurance commissioner, and Tate went on to succeed Ralph Reed as executive director of the Christian Coalition. Since being first elected in 1996, Smith's moderate voting record and a strong Democratic trend in the Puget Sound region have turned the formerly contentious district into a fairly safe Democratic seat. He won reelection easily in the 2006 election.

Representatives

ee also

*United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, 2006

External links

* [http://www.house.gov/adamsmith/ Web site of U.S. Rep. Adam Smith]