Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district

Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers 66.7% of Barnstable County, all of Dukes County, and all of Nantucket County population in 2010.[2][3] Democrat Julian Cyr of Truro has represented the district since 2017.[4] He is running unopposed for re-election in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.[5][6]

Map of Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district, 2013. Based on 2010 United States Census

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities:[3]

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable, 2nd Barnstable, 3rd Barnstable, 4th Barnstable, 5th Barnstable, and Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket districts.[7]

Senators

Images
Portraits of legislators
  • John Aylmer
  • Paul Doane
  • Henri Rauschenbach
  • Julian Cyr

See also

References
  1. "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  2. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Counties ↔ legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, Counties to State Senate Districts
  3. "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 18, 2020
  4. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: Cape and Islands district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  5. "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 11, 2020
  6. "State Distributes Mail-In Ballots As Primary Nears", CapeNews.net, Falmouth, MA: Enterprise Newspapers, August 7, 2020
  7. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, State Senate Districts to State House Districts
  8. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
  9. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
  10. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
  11. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  12. "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018, Seven incumbent Democratic senators face opposition
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