Our District

The 43rd Legislative District boundaries are shown in the map below. You can confirm your precinct and Washington Legislative, Seattle City Council, King County Council, and Congressional districts by using the King County Find My Districts tool. The 43rd’s neighborhoods include:

• Laurelhurst (new!)

• Southern University District

• Southeast Fremont

• Montlake

• Wallingford

• Broadway

• South Lake Union

• Capitol Hill

• Broadmoor

• Madison Park

• Belltown

• Denny Blaine Park (new!)

• Eastlake

• Northwest Lake Washington Boulevard (new!)

• Alaskan Way Boulevard (new!)

• Denny Park and Denny Way/west of the Westlake Cut (new!)

• Downtown core

The neighborhoods no longer in the 43rd:

• Green Lake

• Ravenna

• The rest of University District

• The rest of Fremont

2021-2022 Redistricting

Every 10 years, after the Census, all Districts go through what’s called “redistricting”—making new jurisdictions—due to both populations growing or shrinking and the ways in which that informs the count of elected officials. The 43rd, for example, grew by over 21,000 people.

You can find more information at the Washington State Redistricting Commission website.

What’s at stake in redistricting, generally?

Redistricting runs the risk of gerrymandering, or manufacturing election outcomes to favor a political Party by using drawn lines to inaccurately represent the communities within them. The lines, in this gerrymandering case, will either “crack” or “pack” votes in or across districts.

“Cracking” splits similar groups (like those with the same Party affiliations as voters) across multiple districts, dividing their strengths so that they struggle to elect their preferred candidates in any of the districts. “Packing,” by contrast, crams groups of voters into as few districts as possible so that the “packed” groups likely elect their preferred candidates but the group’s voting strength is weakened everywhere else.