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Idaho's 17th legislative district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ25025254 ↗
Source-derived summary

Idaho's 17th legislative district is one of 35 districts of the Idaho Legislature. It is currently represented by Carrie Semmelroth, Democrat of Boise, John Gannon, Democrat of Boise, and Megan Egbert, Democrat.

District profile

2012–present

District 17 currently consists of a portion of Ada County.

2002–2012

From 2002 to 2012, District 17 consisted of a portion of Ada County.

1992–2002

From 1992 to 2002, District 17 consisted of a portion of Ada County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Idaho's 17th legislative district” as american legislative district. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2002, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Idaho's, 17th and legislative can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as american legislative district. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25025254. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2002 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Idaho's 17th legislative district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.