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Forum: Snohomish County has outgrown its share of Congress

The 2020 census counted about 828,000 people in Snohomish County. That is more than live in the average Washington congressional district. Yet the county has no member of Congress to call wholly its own. It is divided among districts it shares with neighbors, and its voice in the House is divided with them.

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