Massachusetts congressional elections

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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.

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U.S. Senate

Seats up for election in 2012:

Select seat for race details	Incumbent	Photo	Party	Next election	Incumbent running	Primary challenge	Confirmed candidates	Possible candidates
MA-Senate Class I Seat	Scott Brown	http://www.opencongress.org/images/photos/thumbs_125/.jpeg	Republican	2012	Yes	No	Alan Khazei Elizabeth Warren Tom Conroy Setti Warren Robert Massie Marisa DeFranco Jim King (Massachusetts) Herb Robinson Scott Brown

Select seat for race details	Incumbent	Photo	Party	Incumbent running	Primary challenge	Confirmed candidates	Possible candidates
MA-01	John Olver		Democratic	No	N/a	Bill Gunn Andrea Nuciforo Jr Richard Neal Jeffery Paul Donnelly	Dennis Rosa Dean Mazzarella Gregg Lisciotti
MA-02	Richard Neal		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	James McGovern	Tom Wesley
MA-03	James McGovern		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	Nicola Tsongas	Marty Lamb
MA-04	Barney Frank	No photo on file.	Democratic	No	N/a	Sean Bielat Elizabeth Childs Herb Robinson Martin Farren Jules Levine	Deborah Goldberg Samuel Sutter James Segel James Vallee Mike Rodriques James Timility Tom Hodgson Jay Barrows Brian Herr Shaunna O'Connell Joseph Kennedy III Bill Vernon Karyn Polito Mary Connaughton
MA-05	Nicola Tsongas		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	Edward Markey Gerry Dembrowski Jeff Semon	Jon Golnik
MA-06	John Tierney	No photo on file.	Democratic	Yes	No	Richard Tisei John Tierney
MA-07	Edward Markey		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	Michael Capuano Karla Romero
MA-08	Michael Capuano		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	Stephen Lynch
MA-09	Stephen Lynch		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a	Bill Keating Christopher Sheldon	Vernon Harrison Scott Lang Sam Sutter Thomas Hodgson Robert O'Leary Mark Montigny Tim Cruz Matias Temperley
MA-10	Bill Keating		Democratic	Yes, for a different seat	N/a