United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 2018
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 17
- Early voting: Oct. 22 - Nov. 2
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
- Online registration: Yes
- Same-day registration: No
- Voter ID: No ID required generally
- Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts.
Partisan breakdown
Heading into the November 6 election, the Democratic Party held all nine of the congressional seats from Massachusetts.
| Members of the U.S. House from Massachusetts -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2018 | After the 2018 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 9 | 9 | |
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 9 | 9 | |
Incumbents
Heading into the 2018 election, the incumbents for the nine congressional districts were:
| Name | Party | District |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Neal | 1 | |
| Jim McGovern | 2 | |
| Niki Tsongas | 3 | |
| Joseph Kennedy III | 4 | |
| Katherine Clark | 5 | |
| Seth Moulton | 6 | |
| Michael Capuano | 7 | |
| Stephen Lynch | 8 | |
| William Keating | 9 |
Candidates
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District 1
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Richard Neal (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Richard Neal (Incumbent) ✔
- Tahirah Amatul-Wadud
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 2
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Jim McGovern (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Tracy Lovvorn (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Paul Grady (Independent)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Jim McGovern (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 3
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Lori Trahan (Democratic Party) ✔
- Rick Green (Republican Party)
- Mike Mullen (Independent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Jeff Ballinger
- Alexandra Chandler
- Abhijit Das
- Rufus Gifford
- Leonard Golder
- Dan Koh
- Barbara L'Italien
- Bopha Malone
- Juana Matias
- Lori Trahan ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 4
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Joseph Kennedy III (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Joseph Kennedy III (Incumbent) ✔
- Gary Rucinski
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 5
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Katherine Clark (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- John Hugo (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Katherine Clark (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Seth Moulton (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joseph Schneider (Republican Party)
- Mary Jean Charbonneau (Independent)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Seth Moulton (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 7
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Ayanna Pressley (Democratic Party) ✔
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Michael Capuano (Incumbent)
- Ayanna Pressley ✔
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 8
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Stephen Lynch (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Stephen Lynch (Incumbent) ✔
- Christopher Voehl
- Brianna Wu
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 9
General election candidates
General election candidates
- Bill Keating (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Peter Tedeschi (Republican Party)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Bill Keating (Incumbent) ✔
- Bill Cimbrelo
Republican primary candidates
Wave election analysis
- See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)
The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?
Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.
Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.
The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 11 U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.
| U.S. House wave elections | ||||||
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| Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[1] | |
| 1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D | |
| 1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R | |
| 1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D | |
| 2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped) | |
| 1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R | |
| 1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped) | |
| 1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D | |
| 1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[2] | -48 | D | |
| 1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[3] | -48 | D | |
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
- U.S. House primaries, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
- ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
- ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
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