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District 8 of the Oregon House of Representatives is one of 60 House legislative districts in the state of Oregon. As of 2021, the boundary for the district includes a portion of Lane County, including most of downtown Eugene and the University of Oregon. The current representative for the district is Democrat Lisa Fragala of Eugene. [1] [2]
The district was created in 1925 after a new city charter was passed, which replaced the former "at large" voting system for a nine-member council with a district system with a 15-member council. As the city's population expanded to the west, the 8th District's boundaries gradually shifted that way as well.
Garden of the Gods (Arapaho: Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i) is a 1,341.3-acre (542.8 ha) public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] 862 acres (349 ha) of the park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.
Portions of the new 8th district also came from the old 10th district, including the more conservative counties of Pike and Wayne. Meanwhile, the Bucks County district was renumbered as the 1st district. [3] The district has a Cook PVI of R+4; [1] however, the Democratic incumbent of the old 17th district, Matt Cartwright, won in 2018. [4]
The district is currently represented by Republican Austin Scott. The district is located in central and south-central Georgia, and stretches from the geographical center of the state to the Florida border. The district includes the cities of Perry, Cordele, Tifton, Moultrie, Valdosta, and portions of Macon. [5] [6]
Florida's 8th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress and was reassigned in 2012, effective January 2013, from the inland central part of Florida to the central Atlantic coast. The district includes Titusville, Melbourne, Cocoa, and Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The 8th district also has the eighth-highest share of residents with at least a bachelor's degree, at 63.9%. Those above-average numbers are largely due to the substantial presence of the federal government in nearby Washington, where thousands of the 8th district’s residents commute to work on a daily basis.
Colorado's 8th congressional district is a new district in the United States House of Representatives that was apportioned after the 2020 United States census. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The first congressional seat to be added to Colorado's congressional delegation since 2001, the 8th district was drawn before the 2022 elections . [ 7 ]