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Brendan Crighton

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Brendan Crighton
Democratic Party
Candidate, Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District
Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District
Tenure
2018 - Present
Term ends
2027
Years in position
8
Prior offices:
Massachusetts House of Representatives 11th Essex District
Years in office: 2015 - 2018
Compensation
Base salary
$82,044.31/year
Per diem
No per diem is paid.
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 5, 2024
Next election
September 1, 2026
Contact
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Brendan Crighton (Democratic Party) is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate, representing the 3rd Essex District. He assumed office on March 7, 2018. His current term ends on January 6, 2027.

Crighton (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the Massachusetts State Senate to represent the 3rd Essex District. He declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on September 1, 2026.[source]

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Crighton was assigned to the following committees:

2023-2024

Crighton was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Crighton was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Crighton was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Massachusetts committee assignments, 2017
• Community Development and Small Businesses Joint
• Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Joint
• Public Health Joint
• Revenue Joint

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Crighton served on the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2026

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on September 1, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton (D) is running in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on September 1, 2026.

Candidate
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Brendan Crighton

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2024

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton won election in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton (D)
 
97.8
 
56,430
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.2
 
1,277

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 57,707
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on September 3, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton
 
99.2
 
11,524
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.8
 
89

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 11,613
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Endorsements

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2022

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2022

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton defeated Annalisa Sulustri in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton (D)
 
71.0
 
34,620
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Annalisa Sulustri (Independent)
 
28.5
 
13,910
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
205

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 48,735
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on September 6, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton
 
99.5
 
15,269
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
82

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 15,351
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2020

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton won election in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton (D)
 
97.0
 
62,381
 Other/Write-in votes
 
3.0
 
1,912

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 64,293
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on September 1, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton
 
99.3
 
25,226
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.7
 
169

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 25,395
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2018

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton won election in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton (D)
 
98.8
 
47,179
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
566

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 47,745
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District

Incumbent Brendan Crighton advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex District on September 4, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton
 
100.0
 
10,526

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 10,526
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Special

See also: Massachusetts state legislative special elections, 2018

A special election for the office of Massachusetts State Senate Third Essex District was held on March 6, 2018. The primary election took place on February 6, 2018. Candidates had until December 26, 2017, to turn in nomination papers with local officials. Certified nomination papers had to be filed with the secretary of state by January 2, 2018.[1]

In November 2017, state Sen. Thomas McGee (D) announced that he would resign from the state Senate effective January 2, 2018, in order to become the mayor of Lynn.[1]

State Rep. Brendan Crighton (D) was the only candidate to file in the race. He faced no competition in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election as well.[2]

2016

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 8, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 7, 2016.

Incumbent Brendan Crighton ran unopposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Eleventh Essex District general election.[3][4]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Eleventh Essex District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Brendan Crighton Incumbent (unopposed)
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


Incumbent Brendan Crighton ran unopposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Eleventh Essex District Democratic Primary.[5][6]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Eleventh Essex District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Brendan Crighton Incumbent (unopposed)


2014

See also: Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on September 9, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 3, 2014. Brendan Crighton defeated Charlie Gallo and Aikaterini Panagiotakis Koudanis in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.[7]

Massachusetts House of Representatives, Eleventh Essex District Democratic Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngBrendan Crighton 59.3% 2,370
Charlie Gallo 34.9% 1,396
Aikaterini Panagiotakis Koudanis 5.7% 229
Total Votes 3,995

Campaign themes

2026

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2024

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2022

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2020

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Campaign finance summary

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Brendan Crighton campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex DistrictWon general$77,273 $0
2022Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex DistrictWon general$167,180 $0
2020Massachusetts State Senate 3rd Essex DistrictWon general$54,569 N/A**
2016Massachusetts House of Representatives, District Eleventh EssexWon $52,969 N/A**
2014Massachusetts House of Representatives, District Eleventh EssexWon $61,147 N/A**
Grand total$413,138 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Election Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marble Head, "Special election to fill McGee vacancy March 6," November 16, 2017
    2. ↑ Essex Wicked Local, "STATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Going into holiday hibernation," January 2, 2018
    3. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
    4. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
    5. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
    6. ↑ Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016
    7. ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "2014 State Primary Candidates," accessed September 9, 2014

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    Preceded by
    -     		Massachusetts House of Representatives 11th Essex District
    2015-2018    		 Succeeded by
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