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]
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:[3]
- Aquinnah
- Barnstable
- Brewster
- Chatham
- Chilmark
- Dennis
- Eastham
- Edgartown
- Gosnold
- Harwich
- Mashpee
- Nantucket
- Oak Bluffs
- Orleans
- Provincetown
- Tisbury
- Truro
- Wellfleet
- West Tisbury
- Yarmouth
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
- John Francis Aylmer, 1979-1981 [8]
- Paul V. Doane, 1981-1989 [9]
- Henri S. Rauschenbach, 1989-2001 [10]
- Robert O'Leary, 2001-2011 [11]
- Dan Wolf, 2011-2017
- Julian Andre Cyr, 2017-current[4][12]
Images
- Portraits of legislators
- John Aylmer
- Paul Doane
- Henri Rauschenbach
- Julian Cyr
See also
References
- "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- 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
- "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 18, 2020
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: Cape and Islands district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 11, 2020
- "State Distributes Mail-In Ballots As Primary Nears", CapeNews.net, Falmouth, MA: Enterprise Newspapers, August 7, 2020
- 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
- Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
- Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
- Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018,
Seven incumbent Democratic senators face opposition
External links
- Ballotpedia
- "Cape & Islands District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- "Cape and Islands District", Senatorcyr.com, archived from the original on May 14, 2020
- League of Women Voters of the Cape Cod Area
- League of Women Voters Martha’s Vineyard
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