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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.

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]

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]

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

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

General Court	Representative	Party		Term	District location
145th	G. Adolph Johnson		Republican	January 5, 1927 – 1928[15]	Worcester's Ward 6[16]
146th	Victor Rolander		Republican	January 2, 1929 – October 10, 1935[16][17]
147th
148th
149th	Axel Sternlof		Republican	December 11, 1935 – 1937[18]
150th	Gustaf Carlson		Republican	January 6, 1937 – 1941[19]
151st
152nd	Sven Erickson		Republican	January 1, 1941 – 1947[20]	Worcester's Ward 2[20]
153rd
154th
155th	Stanley Johnson		Republican	January 1, 1947 – 1949[21]
156th	Joseph Aspero		Democratic	January 5, 1949 – 1953[22]	Worcester's Ward 3[22]
157th
158th	Domenic DePari		Democratic	January 7, 1953 – 1961[23]
159th
160th
161st
162nd	Leo Turo		Democratic	January 4, 1961 – 1965[24]
163rd
164th	Robert Bohigian		Democratic	January 6, 1965 – January 1, 1975[25]	Worcester's Ward 2 and Ward 3[26][25]
165th
166th
167th
168th
169th	Robert Reynolds		Republican	January 1, 1975 – 1977[27]	Berlin, Bolton, Boxborough, Harvard, Lancaster, and Northborough[28][27][29]
170th	Walter Bickford		Democratic	January 5, 1977 – 1979[30]
171st	Robert McNeil		Democratic	January 3, 1979 – 1985[31]	Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7[32][31][33]
172nd
173rd
174th	William Donovan		Democratic	January 2, 1985 – 1987[34]
175th	John Binienda		Democratic	January 7, 1987 – 1989[35]
176th				January 4, 1989 – 1995[36]	Leicester; Worcester's Ward 7; and Worcester's Ward 8: Precincts 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8[37][38]
177th
178th
179th				January 4, 1995 – August 22, 2014[39]	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 [40]
190th
191st	David LeBoeuf		Democratic	January 9, 2019 – Present

• Massachusetts General Court
• Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Other Worcester County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th
• Worcester County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st, 2nd; Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester; Middlesex and Worcester; Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex; Worcester and Middlesex; Worcester and Norfolk
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Portraits of legislators

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

• League of Women Voters of the Worcester Area