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Elections in Massachusetts |
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Elections to the 185th Massachusetts Senate were held on November 2, 2004. The Democrats picked up one former Republican seat. The 185th Massachusetts General Court began in January 2005, and consisted of 34 Democrats and 6 Republican State Senators.
The 2004 Massachusetts House election was held on the same date as the Senate election, as well as Federal and Congressional elections.
Massachusetts Senators serve two-year terms.[1]
Results
[edit]Party | Seats | Popular Vote | ||||
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2002 | 2004 | +/− | Vote | % | ||
Democratic Party | 33 | 34 | +1 | 1,725,309 | 66.68% | |
Republican Party | 7 | 6 | −1 | 805,215 | 31.12% | |
Independents | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41,119 | 1.6% | |
Libertarian Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,374 | 0.2% | |
Green Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,072 | 0.1% | |
Others | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,445 | 0.3% | |
Total | 40 | 40 | 0 | 2,587,534 | 100% |
Complete list of Senate contests in 2004
[edit]Official results from State Election Results 2004 (PDF, 459k) on the Massachusetts Elections Division website
Primary results
[edit]Official results from State Primary Election Results 2004 (PDF, 424k) on the Massachusetts Elections Division website
Democratic primary
[edit]District | Candidates | Votes | % |
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2nd Hampden and Hampshire | Write-In: Todd McGee | 244 | 32% |
2nd Middlesex and Norfolk | Gerard E. Desilets | 3,528 | 28% |
Adam L. Sistisky | 2,374 | 19% | |
Karen E. Spilka | 6,808 | 53% | |
Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex | Angus G. McQuilken | 5,440 | 56% |
Patricia B. Ross | 504 | 5% | |
Barbara A. Smith | 695 | 7% | |
Gerald A. Wasserman | 3,080 | 32% | |
1st Suffolk | Jack Hart (i) | 11,126 | 97% |
Write-In: Carol Y. Mallory-Causey | 27 | 0.2% |
Republican primary
[edit]District | Candidates | Votes | % |
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Bristol and Norfolk | Philip A. Brown | 1,109 | 45% |
David W. McCarter | 1,339 | 55% | |
4th Middlesex | Richard J. Dellarciprete | 679 | 30% |
Douglas M. Lucente | 1,564 | 69% | |
Middlesex and Worcester | Rod Jané | 3,243 | 57% |
Arthur G. Vigeant | 2,414 | 43% |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Article LXXXII.