Massachusetts's 8th congressional district
Massachusetts's 8th congressional district | |
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Massachusetts's 8th congressional district – since January 3, 2013. | |
Current Representative | Stephen Lynch (D–Boston) |
Population (2015) | 764,789[1] |
Ethnicity |
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Cook PVI | D+10[2] |
Massachusetts's 8th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts, including part of Boston. It is represented by Democrat Stephen Lynch. For one congressional term (1791–1793) it served as the home district of the District of Maine. The district boundaries were significantly changed as of the elections of 2012 due to redistricting after the 2010 census, with the old 8th district largely being shifted to the new 7th district.[3] The new 8th district comprises many of the communities of the old 9th district, as well as some easternmost Norfolk County communities and northernmost Plymouth County communities of the old 10th district.
Cities and towns in the District
In Bristol County:
- Precincts 1 and 2 in Raynham.
In Norfolk County:
- Avon, Braintree, Canton, Cohasset, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton:Precincts 2–4, and 6–9, Norwood, Quincy, Randolph, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood and Weymouth.
In Plymouth County:
- Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hingham, Hull, Scituate, West Bridgewater, and Whitman.
In Suffolk County:
- Boston, Ward 3: Precincts 1–6; Ward 5: Precincts 3–5, 11; Ward 6, Ward 7: Precincts 1–9, Ward 11: Precincts 9 and 10, Ward 13: Precincts 3, 7 and 10, Ward 16: Precincts 2, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12, Ward 19: Precincts 1–6, 8 and 9, and Ward 20: Precincts 1, 2, and 4–20.
Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013
1840s
"All the towns in Norfolk County; Abington, North Bridgewater, Hingham, and Hull, in the County of Plymouth; and Brighton, Holliston, Natick, Newton, and Sherburne, in the County of Middlesex."[4]
1850s
"The city of Lowell, and the towns of Acton, Ashby, Ashland, Bedford, Billerica, Boxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Framingham, Groton, Hopkinton, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Natick, Pepperell, Shirley, Stow, Sudbury, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Wayland. Westford, and Weston, in the county of Middlesex; and the towns of Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, Lunenburg, Northborough, Southborough, and Westborough, in the county of Worcester."[5]
1870s
"Ashland, Wards 22, 23, 25, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Dedham, Dover, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medfield, Medway, Milford, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norwood, Sherborn, Southboro', Watertown, Wayland, and Weston."[6]
1893–1902
1893: Arlington, Boston (Wards 9, 10, 11), Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Winchester.[7]
1903–1912
Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Winchester, Woburn.[8]
1913–1932
Middlesex County: Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Lexington, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Winchester.[9][10]
1933–1942
Cambridge (Wards 2, 3), Everett, Malden, Medford, Somerville.[8]
1943–1962
Everett, Lynnfield, Malden, Medford, Melrose, N. Reading, Reading, Saugus, Somerville (Wards 4, 5, 6, 7), Stoneham, Wakefield.[8][11]
1963–1972
Boston (Wards 1, 2, 3, 21, 22), Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville.[8][12]
1973–1982
Arlington, Belmont, Boston (Wards 1, 2, 5, 21, 22), Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown.[8][13]
1983–1992
Arlington, Belmont, Boston (Wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 21, 22), Cambridge, Somerville, Waltham, Watertown.[8][14]
1993–2002
Belmont, Boston (Wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22), Cambridge, Chelsea, Somerville, Watertown.[8]
2003–2013
In Middlesex County:
- Cambridge, and Somerville.
In Suffolk County:
- Boston, Wards 1, 2, Ward 3, Precincts 1–4, 7, 8, Ward 4, Ward 5, Precincts 1, 2, 6–10, Ward 7, Precinct 10, Wards 8–12, Ward 13, Precincts 1, 2, 4–6, Ward 14, Ward 15, Precincts 1–5, 7–9, Ward 16, Precincts 1, 3, Ward 17, Precincts 1–3, 5–12; Ward 18, Precincts 1–8, 13–15, 21, Ward 19, Precincts 1, 3–6, 8, 9, Wards 21 and 22, (the remainder of Boston is in the 9th district), and Chelsea.
List of representatives
Representative | Party | Years | Electoral history |
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Jonathan Grout | Anti-Administration | March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791 |
First elected in 1788. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Pro-Administration | March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793 |
Redistricted from the 6th district and re-elected here in 1790. Redistricted to the 4th district. | |
District eliminated | 1793 | ||
District restored | 1795 | ||
Federalist | March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797 |
Redistricted from the 1st district and re-elected here in 1794. [Data unknown/missing.] | |
Federalist | March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1801 |
First elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. [Data unknown/missing.] | |
Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803 |
First elected in 1800. Redistricted to the 1st district | |
Lemuel Williams | Federalist | March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805 |
Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected here in 1802. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Isaiah L. Green | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1809 |
Re-elected in 1806. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Gideon Gardner | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811 |
[Data unknown/missing.] |
Isaiah L. Green | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 |
Elected again in 1810. [Data unknown/missing.] |
John Reed, Jr. | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 9th district. |
William Baylies | Federalist | March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817 |
Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected here in 1814. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Zabdiel Sampson | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1817 – July 26, 1820 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Resigned to become collector of customs in Plymouth. |
Vacant | July 26, 1820 – November 24, 1820 | ||
Aaron Hobart | Democratic-Republican | November 24, 1820 – March 3, 1823 |
First elected to finish Sampson's term. Re-elected in 1820. Redistricted to the 11th district. |
Samuel Lathrop | Adams-Clay Federalist | March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 |
Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected here in 1822. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Anti-Jacksonian | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827 | ||
Adams | March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Anti-Jacksonian | March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1835 | ||
Anti-Jacksonian | March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Retired. | |
Whig | March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843 | ||
Whig | March 4, 1843 – February 23, 1848 |
Redistricted from the 12th district and re-elected here in 1842. Died. | |
Vacant | February 24, 1848 – April 2, 1848 | ||
Whig | April 3, 1848 – March 3, 1853 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Whig | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Know-nothing | March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 | ||
Republican | March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 9th district. | |
John M. S. Williams | Republican | March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 |
[Data unknown/missing.] |
Democratic | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Lost re-election. | |
Republican | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Retired. | |
Republican | March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885 |
Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected here in 1822. | |
Republican | March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Retired. | |
Republican | March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Lost re-election. | |
Democratic | March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 |
[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 5th district. | |
Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1913 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Democratic | March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1925 |
[Data unknown/missing.] | |
Republican | March 4, 1925 – March 10, 1926 |
Elected in 1924. Died. | |
Vacant | March 10, 1926 – November 2, 1926 | ||
Republican | November 2, 1926 – October 1, 1932 |
First elected to finish Thayer's term and elected to next full term. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Resigned to become judge of United States Customs Court. | |
Vacant | October 1, 1932 – March 3, 1933 | ||
Arthur D. Healey[20] | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – August 3, 1942 |
First elected in 1932. Re-elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Resigned to become judge of US District Court for Massachusetts. |
Vacant | August 3, 1942 – January 3, 1943 | ||
Angier Goodwin | Republican | January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 |
First elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Lost re-election. |
Democratic | January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1963 |
First elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Redistricted to 7th district. | |
Democratic | January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1987 |
Redistricted from the 11th district and re-elected here in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Retired. | |
Democratic | January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1999 |
First elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Retired. | |
Democratic | January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2013 |
First elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Redistricted to the 7th district. | |
Democratic | January 3, 2013 – Present |
Redistricted from the 9th district and re-elected here in 2012. Re-elected in 2014 Re-elected in 2016 |
Recent election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Democratic | Mike Capuano | 125,167 | 91 | ||
Socialist Workers | Laura Garza | 12,390 | 9 | ||
Majority | 112,777 | 82 | |||
Turnout | 137,557 | ||||
Democratic hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ "2015 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates".
- ↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 20, 2012.
- ↑ John Hayward (1849). "Congressional Districts". Gazetteer of Massachusetts. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.
- ↑ "Congressional Districts". Massachusetts Register 1862. Boston: Adams, Sampson, & Co.
- ↑ "Congressional Districts of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register and Business Directory, 1878. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, and Co.
- ↑ Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Geographical History of the 7th District". U.S. Congressman Michael E. Capuano. Washington DC: U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved November 23, 2013. (Includes geographical history of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, pre-2013)
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
- ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1921), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the fourteenth census of the United States 1920, Boston: Wright & Potter
- ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1941), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the sixteenth census of the United States, 1940, Boston: Wright & Potter, OCLC 10056477,
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- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 88th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1963.
- ↑ "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
- ↑ "Massachusetts". 1985–1986 Official Congressional Directory: 99th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1985.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
- ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1869). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Forty-First Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". 1991–1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
External links
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Maps
- Map of Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District, via Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Election results
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Preceded by Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district |
Home district of the Speaker of the House January 4, 1977 – January 3, 1987 |
Succeeded by Texas's 12th congressional district |
Coordinates: 42°11′41″N 70°56′38″W / 42.19472°N 70.94389°W