From OpenCongress Wiki

This page is part of the RaceTracker project,
coordinated by the Elections.DailyKos.com team

Add what you know. (Here's how.)

---

RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report  · 2012 Senate report

	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

1. Does not include the special election in OR-01.
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.

• Make an edit
• Learn how to participate or get in touch
• See the full 2012 House report or the main Massachusetts elections page

  Contents 1 2012 election 2 2010 election 3 2008 election 4 2008 Presidential election results 5 District map and incumbent offices 6 Articles and resources

  
  

  2012 election

  [edit 2012 election info with form]
  Links to names in blue have existing profiles, red links need someone to start one.
  

  2012 fundraising data for MA-09 available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.

  Race status

  Incumbent:	Stephen Lynch
  Incumbent running?	Yes, for a different seat
  Primary challenge?	N/a

  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Stephen Lynch	Democratic	Running for another House seat	FEC Source	November 25, 2011	Running in MA-08
  Vernon Harrison	Republican	Potential candidate	(source needed)	July 17, 2011	2010 Candidate
  Bill Keating	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	November 25, 2011	Current MA-10 Congressman
  Scott Lang	Democratic	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	New Bedford Mayor
  Sam Sutter	Democratic	Considering candidate	Media Story Source	January 11, 2012	Bristol County District Attorney
  Thomas Hodgson	Republican	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	Bristol County Sherriff
  Therese Murray	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	State Senate President
  Robert O'Leary	Democratic	Considering candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	2010 MA-10 Primary Candidate Fmr State Senator
  Mark Montigny	Democratic	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	State Senator
  Tim Cruz	Democratic	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	Plymouth District Attorney
  Viriato DeMacedo	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	State Rep
  Matias Temperley	Republican	Potential candidate	Politics 1 Source	January 11, 2012
  Christopher Sheldon	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	January 20, 2012

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  TBD	TBD

  
  

  2010 election

  [edit 2010 election info with form]

  Candidates

  (Methodology)

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Stephen Lynch	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	March 23, 2010
  Mac D'Alessandro	Democratic	Out	Campaign Website Source	May 29, 2010	Lost Primary
  Keith Lepor	Republican	Out	MA SOS Source	October 1, 2010	Lost Primary
  Vernon Harrison	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	October 1, 2010

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2010 primary election winners	2010 general election winner
  Stephen Lynch, Vernon Harrison	Stephen Lynch

  
  

  2008 election

  [2008 election edit info with form]
  Incumbent: Stephen Lynch

  
  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Stephen Lynch	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 23, 2009
  Unopposed			(source needed)	March 23, 2009

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2008 primary election winners	2008 general election winner
  Stephen Lynch	Stephen Lynch

  2008 Presidential election results

  	Republican	Democratic
  2000	33% George W. Bush	60% Al Gore
  2004	36% George W. Bush	63% John Kerry
  2008	39% John McCain	61% Barack Obama

  District map and incumbent offices

  Stephen Lynch's district offices
  88 Black Falcon Avenue Suite 340 Boston, MA 02210 617-428-2000 (Phone) (Fax) Brockton Federal Building 166 Main Street Brockton, 02301 508-586-5555 (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-09" (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.

  MA-09 campaign ads

  Retrieved from "http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/MA-09"
  Categories: Project:RaceTracker | Congressional districts | Pages using the "Congressional district" template