Washington's 5th legislative district
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Washington's 5th legislative district is one of forty-nine districts in Washington state for representation in the state legislature. The district borders Kittitas County on the east, the 31st legislative district on the south, parts of Maple Valley, Renton, and Issaquah on the west, and Snohomish County on the north.[1]
The largely rural district is represented by state senator Victoria Hunt and is represented by state representatives Zach Hall (position 1) and Lisa Callan (position 2), all Democrats.
Statehood-1932
During this period, the state senate and state house districts were geographically distinct.[2]
| Year | Senate | House | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | Senate District Geography | House Position 1 | House Position 2 | House District Geography | |
| 1st (1889-1890) | A. T. Fariss (R)[a] | Whitman County | |||
| John C. Lawrence (R)[a] | |||||
| John T. Whalley (R)[a] | |||||
| 2nd (1891-1892) | Alexander Watt (R) | Spokane County (part) | House District Established | Spokane County (part) | |
| George Fellows (R) | Louis Walter (D) | ||||
| 3rd (1893-1894) | W. C. Belknap (R) | R. D. Speck (R) | C. F. Westfall (R) | ||
| 4th (1895-1896) | W. E. Runner (P.P.) | R. K. Kegley (P.P.) | |||
| 5th (1897-1898) | W. E. Runner (Pop.), (P.P.)[b] | C. E. Mohundro (Pop.) | Lewis Lindstrom (Pop.) | ||
| 6th (1899-1900) | F. P. Witter (R) | A. Harrison (R) | |||
| 7th (1901-1902) | Stanley Hallett (D) | C. W. Bowne (D) | James Puckett (D) | ||
| 8th (1903-1904) | A. J. Reise (D) | John Gray (D) | |||
| 9th (1905-1906) | E. C. Bratt (R) | George T. Crane (R) | N. E. Linsley (R) | ||
| 10th (1907-1908) | Emery P. Gilbert (R) | D. M. Thompson (R) | |||
| 11th (1909-1910) | Ellsworth C. Whitney (R) | Norman Buck (R)[c] | Lester P. Edge (D) | ||
| Vacant[d] | |||||
| 12th (1911-1912) | Guy B. Groff (R) | Lloyd E. Gandy (R) | |||
| 13th (1913-1914) | W. J. Sutton (R) | Hance Cleland (R) | John Gray (D) | ||
| 14th (1915-1916) | L. Frank Boyd (R) | Maurice Smith (R) | |||
| 15th (1917-1918) | E. Ben Johnson (R) | Maurice Smith (R)[e] | L. Frank Boyd (R) | ||
| 16th (1919-1920) | John D. Bassett (R) | ||||
| Cyrus Happy Jr. (R)[f] | |||||
| 17th (1921-1922) | W. J. Sutton (R) | John D. Bassett (R) | Floyd B. Danskin (R) | ||
| 18th (1923-1924) | |||||
| 19th (1925-1926) | Floyd B. Danskin (R)[g] | W. W. Zent (R) | |||
| 20th (1927-1928) | Lester P. Edge (R) | ||||
| 21st (1929-1930) | J. Phillips Post (R) | ||||
| 22nd (1931-1932) | John F. Davies (R) | ||||
1933-Present
After the passage of Initiative 57 and the 1930 redistricting cycle, the state senate and state house districts were geographically similar. While some senate districts would occasionally be broken up into house seats A and B, seats A and B were always contained in the Senate district boundaries.
The 5th Legislative district's state senate and house seats are identical geographically from 1933 to the present day.[2]
| Year | Senate | House | District Geography | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | House Position 1 | House Position 2 | ||
| 23rd (1933-1934) | Kebel Murphy (D) | Harry C. Huse (D)[h] | Charles E. Peterson (R) | Spokane County (part) |
| James Cannon (D)[i] | ||||
| 24th (1935-1936) | George H. Johnston (D) | Raymond F. Kelly (D) | ||
| 25th (1937-1938) | Donald B. Miller (D) | |||
| 26th (1939-1940) | Wylie W. Brown (D) | |||
| 27th (1941-1942) | Bernard J. Gallagher (D) | George H. Johnston (D) | ||
| 28th (1943-1944) | George H. Johnston (D) | Donald B. Miller (D)[j] | ||
| Clarence D. Martin (D)[k] | ||||
| 29th (1945-1946) | Edwin A. Beck (D) | L. R. Anderson (D) | George H. Johnston (D) | |
| 30th (1947-1948) | James A. Blodgett (R) | Albert F. Canwell (R) | ||
| 31st (1949-1950) | Donald B. Miller (D) | Russell Hoopingarner (D) | Reuben T. Smiley (D) | |
| 32nd (1951-1952) | John L. Cooney (D) | Russell Hoopingarner (D) | ||
| 33rd (1953-1954) | Lloyd J. Andrews (R) | Thad Byrne (R) | Wilfred A. Gamon (R) | |
| 34th (1955-1956) | John L. Cooney (D) | |||
| 35th (1957-1958) | John L. Cooney (D) | Keith H. Campbell (D) | Bill McCormick (D) | |
| 36th (1959-1960) | ||||
| 37th (1961-1962) | ||||
| 38th (1963-1964) | ||||
| 39th (1965-1966) | Bill McCormick (D)[l] | Gerald L. Saling (R) | ||
| 40th (1967-1968) | 1965 Redistricting | |||
| Lester M. Merritt (D)[m] | Spokane County (part) | |||
| Geraldine McCormick (D)[n][o] | ||||
| 41st (1969-1970) | ||||
| 42nd (1971-1972) | Edward T. Luders (D)[p] | |||
| 43rd (1973-1974) | Bob Lewis (R) | 1972 Redistricting | ||
| Spokane County (part) | ||||
| 44th (1975-1976) | ||||
| Gladys Morgen (D)[q] | ||||
| Jerry M. Hughes (D)[r] | ||||
| 45th (1977-1978) | ||||
| 46th (1979-1980) | ||||
| 47th (1981-1982) | Jerry M. Hughes (D) | Richard H. Barrett (R) | ||
| 48th (1983-1984) | B. Jean Silver (R) | |||
| 49th (1985-1986) | Jerry Saling (R) | |||
| 50th (1987-1988) | Gary Bumgarner (R) | |||
| 51st (1989-1990) | Shirley Rector (D) | |||
| 52nd (1991-1992) | Todd Mielke (R) | |||
| 53rd (1993-1994) | Kathleen Drew (D) | Philip E. Dyer (R) | Brian Thomas (R) | King County (part) |
| 54th (1995-1996) | ||||
| 55th (1997-1998) | Dino Rossi (R)[s] | |||
| 56th (1999-2000) | Cheryl Pflug (R)[t] | |||
| 57th (2001-2002) | Glenn Anderson (R) | |||
| 58th (2003-2004) | ||||
| Cheryl Pflug (R)[t][u] | Jay Rodne (R)[v] | |||
| 59th (2005-2006) | ||||
| 60th (2007-2008) | ||||
| 61st (2009-2010) | ||||
| 62nd (2011-2012) | ||||
| Dino Rossi (R)[w] | ||||
| Mark Mullet (D)[x] | ||||
| 63rd (2013-2014) | Chad Magendanz (R) | |||
| 64th (2015-2016) | ||||
| 65th (2017-2018) | Paul Graves (R) | |||
| 66th (2019-2020) | Bill Ramos (D) | Lisa Callan (D) | ||
| 67th (2021-2022) | ||||
| 68th (2023-2024) | ||||
| 69th (2025-2026) | Bill Ramos (D)[y] | Victoria Hunt (D)[z] | ||
| Victoria Hunt (D)[z] | Zach Hall (D)[aa] | |||
Key
| Democratic (D) |
| Populist (Pop) |
| Republican (R) |
- P.P. is People's Party which was closely associate with the Populist Party.