John Devine (Massachusetts)
John Devine (independent) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Massachusetts. He did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 6, 2018.
Devine unsuccessfully ran as a Democratic candidate for the Thirtieth Middlesex District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2016 and for Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House in 2014.[1]
Biography
Devine attended City College of San Francisco from 1986 to 1989 and went on to earn his B.L.A. with a concentration in psycholobiology from Harvard University in 1994. He attended U.C. Berkeley for summer session 1991 and summer session 1993 then performed graduate study in neuroscience there during spring 1994.[2]
Devine attended law school at New England School of Law in Boston in 2016.[2]
Professionally, Devine has worked as a paralegal, as a house painter, and in carpentry. He also worked several years as a taxi-cab driver.[3]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Massachusetts
Incumbent Elizabeth Warren defeated Geoff Diehl and Shiva Ayyadurai in the general election for U.S. Senate Massachusetts on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Elizabeth Warren (D) | 60.3 | 1,633,371 | |
| Geoff Diehl (R) | 36.2 | 979,210 | ||
| Shiva Ayyadurai (Independent) | 3.4 | 91,710 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,799 | ||
| Total votes: 2,707,090 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Allen Waters (Independent)
- Joshua Ford (Independent)
- John Devine (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Massachusetts
Incumbent Elizabeth Warren advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Massachusetts on September 4, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Elizabeth Warren | 100.0 | 591,038 | |
| Total votes: 591,038 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Massachusetts
Geoff Diehl defeated John Kingston and Beth Lindstrom in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Massachusetts on September 4, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Geoff Diehl | 55.3 | 144,043 | |
| John Kingston | 26.7 | 69,636 | ||
| Beth Lindstrom | 17.9 | 46,693 | ||
| Total votes: 260,372 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darius Mitchell (R)
- Heidi Wellman (R)
- Allen Waters (R)
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 James Dwyer ran unopposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Thirtieth Middlesex District general election.[4][5]
| Massachusetts House of Representatives, Thirtieth Middlesex District General Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic |  James Dwyer Incumbent (unopposed) | |
| Source: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth | ||
Incumbent James Dwyer defeated John Patrick Devine in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Thirtieth Middlesex District Democratic Primary.[6][7]
| Massachusetts House of Representatives, Thirtieth Middlesex District Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | James Dwyer Incumbent |
86.17% | 1,414 | |
| Democratic | John Patrick Devine | 13.83% | 227 | |
| Total Votes | 1,641 | |||
2014
Devine ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.[1] Devine was defeated by Seth Moulton in the Democratic primary on September 9, 2014.[8]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Seth Moulton |
50.8% | 36,575 | ||
| John Tierney Incumbent | 40.1% | 28,915 | ||
| Marisa DeFranco | 6% | 4,293 | ||
| John Devine | 2.1% | 1,527 | ||
| John Gutta | 1% | 691 | ||
| All others | 0% | 36 | ||
| Total Votes | 72,037 | |||
| Source: Massachusetts Elections Division |
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Campaign contributions
2014
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2014 elections season. Below are Devine's reports.
| John Devine (2014) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[9] | April 15, 2014 | $0 | $40 | $(0) | $40 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $40 | $(0) | ||||||||
See also
- United States Senate
- United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2018
- Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Massachusetts House of Representatives Thirtieth Middlesex District
- Massachusetts House of Representatives elections, 2016
- Massachusetts State Legislature
- United States House of Representatives
- Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District elections, 2014
- Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Devine for Congress, "Home," accessed February 17, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on March 16, 2014
- ↑ Facebook: "John Devine for Congress, About," accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 State election candidates," accessed October 3, 2016
- ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Election data lookup," accessed December 20, 2016
- ↑ Massachusetts Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Candidates (Democratic)," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ Secretary of the Commonweath of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts Election Statistics," accessed October 14, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "2014 Massachusetts House Primaries Results," accessed September 9, 2014
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "April Quarterly," accessed May 15, 2014
