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| House1: 435 seats | Senate: 33 seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOP | Dems | Total | GOP | Dems | Total | |
| Confirmed primary challenges | 63 | 32 | 95 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Possible primary challenges | 13 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Open seats* | 7 | 15 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 92 |
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.
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Contents
2012 election
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2012 fundraising data for MA-05
available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.Race status
Incumbent: Nicola Tsongas Incumbent running? Yes, for a different seat Primary challenge? N/a Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Nicola Tsongas Democratic Running for another House seat Campaign Website Source November 25, 2011 Running in MA-03 Jon Golnik Republican Considering candidate Media Story Source July 17, 2011 2010 Candidate Edward Markey Democratic Confirmed candidate FEC Source November 25, 2011 Current MA-07 Congressman Gerry Dembrowski Republican Confirmed candidate Letter to Editor Source November 25, 2011 2010 MA-07 Candidate Jeff Semon Republican Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source November 25, 2011 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2012 primary winners 2012 general election winner TBD TBD
2010 election
Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Nicola Tsongas Democratic Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source July 7, 2010 William Bunker Republican Out Campaign Website Source June 16, 2009 Did Not File Jon Golnik Republican Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source November 15, 2009 Sam Meas Republican Out Campaign Website Source October 15, 2010 Lost Primary Robert Shapiro Republican Out MA SOS Source October 1, 2010 Lost Primary Thomas Weaver Republican Out MA SOS Source December 1, 2010 Lost Primary (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2010 primary election winners 2010 general election winner Nicola Tsongas, Jon Golnik Nicola Tsongas
2008 election
Incumbent: Nicola Tsongas
CandidatesName Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Nicola Tsongas Democratic Confirmed candidate (source needed) March 23, 2009 Unopposed Unopposed (source needed) March 23, 2009 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2008 primary election winners 2008 general election winner Nicola Tsongas Nicola Tsongas 2008 Presidential election results
Republican Democratic 2000 36% George W. Bush 57% Al Gore 2004 41% George W. Bush 57% John Kerry 2008 40% John McCain 60% Barack Obama District map and incumbent offices
Nicola Tsongas's district offices - 11 Kearney Square, 3rd Floor, Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 459-0101 (Phone) (Fax) - 305 Essex Street, 4th Floor, Lawrence, MA 01840
(978) 681-6200 (Phone) (Fax)
District map layers graciously provided by GovTrack.Us.
See the incumbent's page for more contact info.
Articles and resources
See also
- Index for all the Massachusetts congressional districts and candidates.
- The full House 2012 elections report.
- The RaceTracker homepage.
External articles
Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "MA-05" (link) Want this data? All information is open-source and free (as in beer and speech). Most data is available via API, RDF, CSV or other methods. See details or email us.
Campaign contribution methodology: Information is updated daily from the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), which downloads their data from the Federal Election Commission on the first weekday of each work week. Candidates must have filed a report with the FEC to show up in the widget and inactive candidates are screened out by CRP. - 11 Kearney Square, 3rd Floor, Lowell, MA 01852
