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On Jan. 19th, Republican state Sen. Scott Brown defeated Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy. Brown will be sworn into the U.S. Senate on Feb. 4.

This profile of Massachusetts's Class I U.S. Senate seat, currently filled by Vacant, is part of the RaceTracker project.

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Contents 1 Next election: 2012 2 Last election: 2006 3 Massachusetts congressional districts and the incumbent's district offices 4 Articles and resources 4.1 See also 4.2 External resources 4.3 External articles

Next election: 2012

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Race status

Incumbent:	Vacant
Incumbent running?	No
Primary challenge?	N/a (open seat).

Candidates

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Martha Coakley	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Source	September 15, 2009
Scott Brown	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Source	September 15, 2009
Michael Capuano	Democratic	Out	[Lost Democratic primary Source]	December 8, 2009
Alan Khazei	Democratic	Out	[Lost Democratic primary Source]	December 8, 2009
Steven Pagliuca	Democratic	Out	[Lost Democratic primary Source]	December 8, 2009

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Results

Primary winners:	TBD
General election winner:	TBD

Last election: 2006

Incumbent: Edward Kennedy

Candidates

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Edward Kennedy	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)
Kenneth Chase	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)

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Results

Primary winners:	Edward Kennedy, Kenneth Chase
General election winner:	Edward Kennedy

Massachusetts congressional districts and the incumbent's district offices

Vacant's district offices
No district office information entered.

Articles and resources

See also

• Index for all the Massachusetts congressional districts and candidates.
• The full U.S. Senate elections report.
• The RaceTracker homepage.

External resources

Blogs	Other Wiki sites
Swing State Project: Swing State Project: http://www.swingstateproject.com/tag.do?tag=MA-Sen Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/tag/MA-Sen MyDD: http://www.mydd.com/tag/MA-Sen The Next Right: http://www.thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/MA-Sen OpenLeft: http://www.openleft.com/tag.do?tag=MA-Sen RedState: http://www.redstate.com/tags/tag/MA-Sen	dKosopedia: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/MA-Sen Left.Wikia: http://left.wikia.com/wiki/MA-Sen

External articles

Technorati search for "MA-Sen"	SwingStateProject posts on "MA-Sen"

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