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2022 Massachusetts Elections
The 2022 Massachusetts general election was held on November 8, 2022, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections were held on September 6, 2022. The election includes: * Federal elections for the US House of Representatives * Statewide elections for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, Secretary of the Commonwealth, treasurer, and auditor * District elections for state representatives, state senators, and Governor's Councillors * County elections for sheriff, district attorney, county commissioner (only in certain counties) * Ballot questions at the state and local levels To register to vote, Massachusetts residents had to register by October 29, 2022. To vote by mail, registered Massachusetts voters had to request a ballot by November 1, 2022. Federal offices U.S. House of Representatives All of Massachusetts' nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2022. All nine seats were won by the incumbent Democrati ...
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2022 United States Elections
Elections in the United States, Elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2022, with the exception of absentee balloting. During this U.S. midterm election, which occurred during the term of president Joe Biden, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate were contested to determine the 118th United States Congress. Thirty-nine state and territorial Governor (United States), U.S. gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, were also contested. This was the first election affected by the 2022 U.S. redistricting, 2022 redistricting that followed the 2020 U.S. census, 2020 census. The Republican Party (United States), Republican Party ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives while Democrats expanded their Senate majority. Midterm elections typically see the incumbent preside ...
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County Commission
A county commission (or a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials (county commissioners) collectively charged with administering the county government in some states of the United States. A county usually has three to five members of the county commission. In some counties within Georgia a sole commissioner holds the authority of the commission. In parts of the United States, alternative terms such as county board of supervisors or county council may be used in lieu of, but generally synonymous to, a county commission. However, in some jurisdictions there may be distinct differences between a county commission and other similarly titled bodies. For example, a county council may differ from a county commission by containing more members or by having a council-manager form of government. In Indiana, every county, except Marion County which is consolidated with the city of Indianapolis, has both a county commission and a county council, with the county ...
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Massachusetts's 5th Congressional District
Massachusetts's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in eastern Massachusetts. The district is represented by Katherine Clark of the Democratic Party. Massachusetts's congressional redistricting after the 2010 census changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012, with the new 3rd district largely taking the place of the old 5th. The 5th district covers many of the communities represented in the old 7th district. On July 15, 2013, Ed Markey resigned from the seat to become the junior Senator from Massachusetts. On December 10, 2013, Democrat Katherine Clark won a special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the 113th Congress. She was sworn into office on December 12, 2013, and since January 2023 serves as the House Minority Whip. The district has been in Democratic hands without interruption since 1975. Before Paul Tsongas' victory that year, it had only elected three Democrats in its entire existence and had been ...
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Jake Auchincloss
Jacob Daniel Auchincloss ( ; born January 29, 1988) is an American politician, businessman, and military officer serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Newton City Council from 2015 to 2021. Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a wealthy New England family, Auchincloss graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 2010. Commissioning into the United States Marine Corps that same year, he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 and to Panama in 2014. He currently serves in the Marine Corps Reserve with the rank of major. Returning home from the military, Auchincloss ran for Newton city council in 2015. After his election victory, he earned his MBA from MIT and was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. In 2020, he was elected to the United States Congress at age 32, succeeding Joe Kennedy III. Re-elected unopposed in 2022 and 2024, Auchincloss voted ...
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Lori Trahan
Lori Ann Trahan ( ; Loureiro; born October 27, 1973) is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2019. The district covers Boston's northwestern suburbs, and includes Lowell, Lawrence, Concord, and Trahan's hometown, Westford. A Democrat, she formerly served as chief of staff to Representative Marty Meehan in Massachusetts's 5th congressional district. Early life and education Trahan was born on October 27, 1973, and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. She grew up with three sisters. Trahan attended Lowell High School, into whose Sports Hall of Fame she was later inducted. Trahan has said her family lived "paycheck to paycheck". Her father, Tony Loureiro, had Portuguese parents. His father was from Porto, and his mother was born in Brazil to Portuguese parents and moved to the Azores to live with relatives as a child after her mother's death. Trahan's mother is also of partial Portuguese ancestry (from the Azores). At Lowel ...
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Massachusetts's 3rd Congressional District
Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district is located in north- central and northeastern Massachusetts. The largest municipalities in the district are Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Methuen, Billerica (partial), Fitchburg, and Marlborough. Democrat Lori Trahan has represented the district since 2019. Cities and towns in the district As of the 2021 redistricting, the 3rd district contains 35 municipalities: Essex County (3) : Haverhill, Lawrence, Methuen Middlesex County (21) : Acton, Ashby, Ayer, Billerica (part; also 6th), Boxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Hudson, Littleton, Lowell, Marlborough, Pepperell, Shirley, Stow, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Westford Worcester County (11) : Ashburnham, Bolton, Berlin, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Harvard, Lancaster, Lunenburg, Winchendon, Westminster (part; also 2nd) History of district boundaries After the 2010 census, the third district shifted from cove ...
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Jim McGovern (American Politician)
James Patrick McGovern (born November 20, 1959) is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing since 2013. A Democrat, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. His district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley. Born and raised in Worcester, McGovern attended Worcester Academy. While in college he worked as a congressional intern and then aide to U.S. Senator George McGovern (no relation), a two-time presidential candidate for whom he campaigned. From 1981 to 1996 he was a senior staff member for U.S. Representative Joe Moakley. McGovern first ran for Congress in 1994, losing the Democratic primary. He ran again in 1996, defeating Republican incumbent Peter Blute. As chairman of the board of the Congressional Hunger ...
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Massachusetts's 2nd Congressional District
Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district is located in central Massachusetts, encompassing much of Franklin, Hampshire, and Worcester counties, as well as small portions of Middlesex and Norfolk Counties. The largest municipalities in the district include Worcester (which is the second-largest city in New England after Boston), Leominster, Amherst, Shrewsbury, and Northampton. Democrat Jim McGovern has represented the district since 2013; he previously represented the 3rd district since 1997. Cities and towns represented As of the 2021 redistricting, the 2nd district includes 68 municipalities: Franklin County (22) : Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Colrain, Conway, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, Whatley Hampshire County (9) : Amherst, Chesterfield, Goshen, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Pelham, Westhampton, Williamsb ...
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Richard Neal
Richard Edmund Neal (born February 14, 1949) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 1989. The district, numbered as the Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district, 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, West Springfield, Massachusetts, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Massachusetts, Holyoke, Agawam, Massachusetts, Agawam, Chicopee, Massachusetts, Chicopee and Westfield, Massachusetts, Westfield, and is much more Rural area, rural than the rest of the state. A member of the United States Democratic Party, Democratic Party, Neal has been the dean of United States congressional delegations from Massachusetts, Massachusetts's delegation to the United States House of Representatives since 2013, and he is also the dean of the New England House delegations. Neal was the president of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield City Council ...
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Massachusetts's 1st Congressional District
Massachusetts's 1st congressional district covers the western portion and the south of the central portion of the state. It is the largest and most sparsely populated district in the state, covering about 30% of the state's land area. The largest cities in the district are Springfield, Chicopee, Pittsfield, Westfield, and Holyoke. Richard Neal, a Democrat from Springfield, represents the district; he previously represented the old 2nd from 1989 to 2013. Cities and towns represented As of the 2021 redistricting cycle, the 1st district contains 83 municipalities: Berkshire County (32) : All 32 municipalities Franklin County (4) : Charlemont, Hawley, Monroe, Rowe Hampden County (23) : All 23 municipalities Hampshire County (11) : Belchertown, Cummington, Easthampton, Granby, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, South Hadley, Southampton, Ware, Worthington Worcester County (13) : Brookfield, Charlton, Dudley, East Brookfield, New Braintree, North ...
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ...
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