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Still, there remained bipartisan agreement that the District of Columbia – which in 1970 had more residents than 10 individual states [a] — deserved at least some representation in the U.S. Congress. Federal legislation to recreate a congressional delegate position for D.C. was first seriously debated by Congress in 1970.
In 1978, Congress proposed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment. Under this amendment, the District of Columbia would have been "treated as though it were a State" regarding congressional representation, presidential elections (replacing the limited treatment under the Twenty-third Amendment), and the constitutional amendment process.
The District of Columbia is a political division coterminous with Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. [1] According to the Article One of the Constitution, only states may be represented in the United States Congress. [2] The District of Columbia is not a U.S. state and therefore has no voting representation. [3]
The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a non-voting delegate to represent the District of Columbia in the United States House of Representatives.
On November 8, 2022, the District of Columbia held an election for its non-voting House delegate representing the District of Columbia's at-large congressional district.The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
For thirty years, since 1978, citizens of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) elected a resident representative, commonly known as Washington representative, an office without congressional rights that was established to represent the CNMI in Washington and performing related official duties established by CNMI law.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Washington. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Washington. The list of names should be complete ...
The majority of residents want the district to become a state and gain full voting representation in Congress, which was confirmed with a 2016 referendum. [3] To prepare for this goal, the district has been electing shadow congresspeople since 1990.