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United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's nine U.S. House districts. The primary was September 3, 2024. The filing deadline was June 4, 2024.[1]
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Massachusetts -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 9 | 9 | |
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 9 | 9 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Richard Neal (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Nadia Milleron (Unenrolled)
Did not make the ballot:
- Anthony Celata (No Party Affiliation)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic primary candidates
- Richard Neal (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
General election candidates
- Jim McGovern (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Cornelius Shea (Unenrolled)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
- Jim McGovern (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election candidates
- Lori Trahan (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Lori Trahan (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
Did not make the ballot:
District 4
General election candidates
- Jake Auchincloss (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Jake Auchincloss (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
District 5
General election candidates
- Katherine Clark (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Katherine Clark (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
District 6
General election candidates
- Seth Moulton (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Seth Moulton (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
District 7
General election candidates
- Ayanna Pressley (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Ayanna Pressley (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Republican Party primary.
District 8
General election candidates
- Stephen Lynch (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Robert Burke (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Stephen Lynch (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 9
General election candidates
- Bill Keating (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Dan Sullivan (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
- Bill Keating (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Massachusetts
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[2]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[3][4][5]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 2nd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 9th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Massachusetts in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Massachusetts, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Massachusetts | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 2,000 | N/A | 6/7/2024 | Source |
| Massachusetts | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 2,000 | N/A | 8/27/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Massachusetts.
| Massachusetts U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 11.1% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 27 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 27.8% | 3 | 37.5% | ||||
| 2018 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 31 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 44.4% | 5 | 62.5% | ||||
| 2016 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 16.7% | 2 | 22.2% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Massachusetts in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 27, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirteen candidates ran for Massachusetts’ nine U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and four Republicans. That’s an average of 1.44 candidates per district. There was an average of 2.11 candidates per district in 2022, 3.00 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.44 candidates per district in 2018.
The number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in Massachusetts in 2024 was also fewer than any other year in the last 10 years. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 22.2 candidates ran per election cycle.
No districts were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election.
Four candidates—one Democrat and three Republican—ran for the 8th Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a district in Massachusetts in 2024.
The Republican primary in the 8th Congressional District was the only contested primary in 2024. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 3.4 were contested each election cycle.
No incumbents were in contested primaries in 2024.
Democrats were guaranteed to win seven of the state's nine U.S. House districts because no Republicans filed to run. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in the 8th and 9th Congressional Districts, meaning neither seat was guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Massachusetts, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Massachusetts' 1st | Richard Neal |  Democratic |
D+9 |
| Massachusetts' 2nd | Jim McGovern | Democratic |
D+13 |
| Massachusetts' 3rd | Lori Trahan | Democratic |
D+11 |
| Massachusetts' 4th | Jake Auchincloss | Democratic |
D+12 |
| Massachusetts' 5th | Katherine Clark | Democratic |
D+23 |
| Massachusetts' 6th | Seth Moulton | Democratic |
D+11 |
| Massachusetts' 7th | Ayanna Pressley | Democratic |
D+35 |
| Massachusetts' 8th | Stephen Lynch | Democratic |
D+15 |
| Massachusetts' 9th | Bill Keating | Democratic |
D+6 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Massachusetts[6] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Massachusetts' 1st | 59.8% | 38.2% | ||
| Massachusetts' 2nd | 64.3% | 33.5% | ||
| Massachusetts' 3rd | 62.7% | 35.3% | ||
| Massachusetts' 4th | 63.3% | 34.8% | ||
| Massachusetts' 5th | 74.8% | 23.6% | ||
| Massachusetts' 6th | 62.9% | 35.3% | ||
| Massachusetts' 7th | 85.5% | 13.1% | ||
| Massachusetts' 8th | 66.9% | 31.4% | ||
| Massachusetts' 9th | 58.2% | 40.0% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Massachusetts' congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Massachusetts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| Republican | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 9 | 11 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Massachusetts' top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Massachusetts, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Maura Healey
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| Lieutenant Governor | Kim Driscoll
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| Secretary of State | William Galvin
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| Attorney General | Andrea Campbell
|
State legislature
Massachusetts State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 36 | |
| Republican Party | 4 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | |
Massachusetts House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 134 | |
| Republican Party | 24 | |
| Independent | 1 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 1 | |
| Total | 160 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Massachusetts Party Control: 1992-2024
Ten years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Candidates had to submit nomination papers to their local election offices for signature verification by May 7, 2024. They had until June 4, 2024, to file those certified signatures with the state.
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
