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. He is running for reelection in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.

District profile
As of the last redistricting in 2011, 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. It has maintained these boundaries since 1995.

Leicester is a small town and developing suburb. It contains the Leicester campus of Becker College and is over 90 percent non-Hispanic white 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.

Former locations

 * c. 1872: Auburn, Charlton, Southbridge, and Spencer

List of members representing the district

 * Gilbert C. Taft, circa 1859
 * Alfred S. Pinkerton, circa 1888
 * Michael J. Fitzgerald, circa 1920

Images

 * Portraits of legislators