Nevada Senate, District 7
The current District 7 of the Nevada Senate contains most of Whitney, parts of Paradise and Henderson, and the southern tip of Sunrise Manor. The district has been represented by Democrat David Parks since its creation in 2012.
The present seventh senatorial district was drawn during the reapportionment of the districts in 2011 after the 2010 Census. The newly drawn districts became effective for filing for office, and for nominating and electing senators on January 1, 2012, and for all other purposes on November 7 – the day after Election Day, when the new senator terms began. The area of District 7 is defined in the Nevada Revised Statutes using census tracts, block groups, and blocks. Senatorial elections have been held twice in the district since its creation.
District 7 has a surface area of 27 square miles (70 km2), and a perimeter of 31.5 miles (50.7 km). Its territory coincides with that of assembly districts 18 and 20. In 2010, District 7 was inhabited by almost 65,000 registered voters, which was 50% of the total population, and about 65% of the voting age population. Democrats are in the majority: just under 50% of registered voters are Democrats, while only slightly more than a quarter are registered as Republicans. 17% are registered as non-partisants.
According to the 2010 Census, the seventh senatorial district had a population of 128,598, which was the ideal population for a senatorial district. Compared to all of Nevada, the district has a relatively low solely white population at just over 60%. Furthermore, District 7 has a higher percentage of Hispanics and Latinos: a third of its inhabitants belong to those groups. Besides, the district has a comparatively high number of people between the ages of 18 and 39 (34%), and its population is educated worse than the rest of Nevada's: more people have no or only a high school diploma, while fewer people have college degrees. That results in a median household income of $46,000, which is almost $7,000 below the median of Nevada. The poverty rate, however, is at 15% the same as in the rest of the state.
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