How Washington’s congressional districts have changed over the years

Washington’s prize for statehood in 1889 was a single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and voters chose Republican John Lockwood Wilson as the first to sit in it. Now, 122 years later, our state is entitled to 10 seats, the map of which is being drawn by a four-member redistricting panel. In a month we’ll know what it looks like. Here’s a selection of congressional district maps illustrating changes of the past century.