12th legislative district

Washington's two representatives from the state's 12th Legislative District are still adjusting to working on behalf of voters west of the Cascades. Last February, the district's boundaries were expanded to include portions of King and Snohomish Counties, making it the only one of Washington's 49 legislative jurisdictions to span the geographical and political divide between the state's two sides.

This week, Washington Sen. Brad Hawkins began his first term representing voters within the redrawn boundaries of the state's 12th Legislative District. Legislative jurisdictions in Washington are reassessed every ten years based on changes in census data and were reconfigured by the state's redistricting commission last year...