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Joan Lovely
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Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District
Tenure

2013 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

12

Prior offices
Salem City Council

Compensation

Base salary

$73,655.01/year

Per diem

$No per diem is paid.

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Beverly High School

Bachelor's

Salem State University

Law

Massachusetts School of Law

Personal
Profession
Attorney/realtor
Contact

Joan Lovely (Democratic Party) is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate, representing the 2nd Essex District. She assumed office on January 2, 2013. Her current term ends on January 6, 2027.

Lovely (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Massachusetts State Senate to represent the 2nd Essex District. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Committee assignments

Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.

2023-2024

Lovely was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Lovely was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Lovely 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
Ways and Means
Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Joint, Vice chair
Public Health Joint
State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Joint, Vice chair
Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Joint
Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Joint
Ways and Means Joint

2015 legislative session

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

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Lovely 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

2024

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely defeated Damian Anketell in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely (D)
 
66.8
 
58,109
Image of Damian Anketell
Damian Anketell (R)
 
33.1
 
28,813
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
86

Total votes: 87,008
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 3, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely
 
99.7
 
14,724
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
49

Total votes: 14,773
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Damian Anketell advanced from the Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 3, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Damian Anketell
Damian Anketell
 
99.5
 
4,649
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
25

Total votes: 4,674
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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 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely defeated Damian Anketell in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely (D)
 
67.7
 
44,277
Image of Damian Anketell
Damian Anketell (R)
 
32.3
 
21,108
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
50

Total votes: 65,435
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely defeated Kyle Davis in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 6, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely
 
74.8
 
17,429
Image of Kyle Davis
Kyle Davis Candidate Connection
 
25.1
 
5,858
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
26

Total votes: 23,313
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Damian Anketell advanced from the Republican primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 6, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Damian Anketell
Damian Anketell
 
99.2
 
5,565
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.8
 
47

Total votes: 5,612
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2020

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely won election in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely (D)
 
98.7
 
75,182
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.3
 
958

Total votes: 76,140
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 1, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely
 
99.4
 
23,475
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.6
 
137

Total votes: 23,612
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2018

General election

General election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely won election in the general election for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely (D)
 
98.8
 
59,282
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
747

Total votes: 60,029
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District

Incumbent Joan Lovely advanced from the Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District on September 4, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Joan Lovely
Joan Lovely
 
100.0
 
12,597

Total votes: 12,597
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2016

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Massachusetts State Senate 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 Joan Lovely ran unopposed in the Massachusetts State Senate Second Essex District general election.[1][2]

Massachusetts State Senate, Second Essex District General Election, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Joan Lovely Incumbent (unopposed)
Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth


Incumbent Joan Lovely ran unopposed in the Massachusetts State Senate Second Essex District Democratic Primary.[3][4]

Massachusetts State Senate, Second Essex District Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Joan Lovely Incumbent (unopposed)



2014

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2014

Elections for the Massachusetts State Senate 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. Incumbent Joan B. Lovely was unopposed in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.[5]

2012

See also: Massachusetts State Senate elections, 2012

Lovely won election in the 2012 election for Massachusetts State Senate District Second Essex District. She defeated Mary-Ellen Manning, John P. Slattery, and Edward J. Carroll in the September 6 Democratic primary and defeated Richard Jolitz (R) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[6][7]

Massachusetts State Senate, Second Essex District, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJoan B. Lovely 70.8% 56,088
     Republican Richard Jolitz 29.2% 23,185
Total Votes 79,273
Massachusetts State Senate, Second Essex District Democratic Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJoan Lovely 50.4% 7,452
John Slattery 29.9% 4,422
Mary-Ellen Manning 17.7% 2,615
Edward Carroll 2.1% 311
Total Votes 14,800

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Joan Lovely did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Joan Lovely did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2012

Lovely's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[8]

Casinos

  • Excerpt: "Massachusetts has already voted to establish casino gaming in our state. Joan will support efforts to ensure that."

Domestic Violence

  • Excerpt: "Joan supports District Attorney Jon Blodgett’s public awareness and enforcement efforts to reduce domestic violence and will support state funding for those programs that aid victims of domestic violence."

Education & Schools

  • Excerpt: "Joan strongly supports our local public schools and will fight for the state funds needed to help build new schools and to provide the necessary resources for quality education at all levels K-12."

Flooding

  • Excerpt: "Joan will work with Mayors Bettencourt and Driscoll in a concerted effort to resolve the flooding problems once and for all."

Healthcare Costs

  • Excerpt: "Joan is concerned about the rising costs of health care and health care insurance and will support legislation and state policies that reduce and contain those increasing costs"

Campaign finance summary


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Joan Lovely campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex DistrictWon general$74,415 $0
2022Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex DistrictWon general$164,174 $0
2020Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex DistrictWon general$30,739 N/A**
2016Massachusetts State Senate, District Second EssexWon $81,569 N/A**
2014Massachusetts State Senate, Second EssexWon $65,679 N/A**
2012Massachusetts State Senate, Second EssexWon $212,002 N/A**
2004Massachusetts House of Representatives, Seventh EssexLost $48,265 N/A**
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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See also


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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
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Massachusetts State Senate 2nd Essex District
2013-Present
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
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Salem City Council
1998-2013
Succeeded by
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