Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

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Due to redistricting after the 2010 census, the borders of the district were changed, with most of the old 7th district redistricted to the new 5th district,^[1] and most of the old 8th district comprising the new 7th district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+34, it is the most Democratic district in Massachusetts, a state with an all-Democratic congressional delegation.^[2]

According to The Boston Globe and the latest census data, approximately 33 percent of the population of the district were born outside of the United States, with approximately 34 percent of the population white, 26 percent African American, and 21 percent Latino.^[3]

In 2019, Ayanna Pressley became the first female and person of color to represent the district as well as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Congress.^[4]

Recent election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results^[5]
2008	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Obama 82% - 16%
2008	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Kerry 86% - 14%
2010	Senate (Spec.)	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Coakley 74% - 26%
2010	Governor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Patrick 74% - 20%
2012	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Obama 84% - 16%
2012	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Warren 79% - 21%
2014	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Markey 85% - 15%
2014	Governor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Coakley 72% - 25%
2016	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Clinton 83% - 12%
2018	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Warren 85% - 13%
	Governor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Gonzalez 57% - 43%
	Attorney General	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Healey 89% - 11%
2020	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Biden 85% - 13%
2020	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Markey 86% - 13%
2022	Governor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Healey 84% - 14%
	Secretary of the Commonwealth	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Galvin 83% - 12%
	Attorney General	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Campbell 85% - 15%
	Auditor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|DiZoglio 74% - 17%
2024	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Harris 79% - 17%
2024	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Warren 82% - 18%

Cities and towns in the district

For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of three counties and 7 municipalities:^[6]

Middlesex County (3)

Cambridge (part; also 5th), Everett, Somerville

Norfolk County (2)

Milton (part; also 8th), Randolph

Suffolk County (2)

Boston (part; also 8th), Chelsea

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

1790s-1830s

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1840s

1849: "The whole of Berkshire County; Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne, in Franklin County; Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Norwich, Plainfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, in Hampshire County; and Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, and Tolland, in the County of Hampden."^[7]

1850s–1880s

An act of the legislature passed April 22, 1852, divided the 7th district of Massachusetts as such: "The towns of Andover, Boxford, Bradford, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lynnfield, Methuen, Middleton, Saugus, and Topsfield in the county of Essex; and the city of Charlestown, and the towns of Burlington, Lexington, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Reading, Somerville, South Reading, Stoneham, Waltham, and Woburn, in the county of Middlesex."^[8]

1890s

File:1891 District 7 detail of Massachusetts Congressional Districts map BPL 11063.png

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, 1891

1893: "Essex County: Towns of Lynn, Nahant, and Saugus. Middlesex County: Towns of Everett, Malden, Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Suffolk County: 4th and 5th wards of the city of Boston, and the towns of Chelsea and Revere."^[9]

1910s

1916: In Essex County: Boxford, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody, Saugus. In Middlesex County: North Reading.^[10]^[11]

1940s

1941: In Essex County: Lawrence, Lynn (part), Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody. In Suffolk County: Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop.^[12]

1950s-2002

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2003-2013

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The district from 2003 to 2013

In Middlesex County:

In Suffolk County:

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created March 4, 1789
File:George Leonard of Congress.jpg George Leonard (Raynham)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background:Template:Party color"\| Pro-Administration	March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1788. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.	1789–1793 Bristol County, Dukes County, and Nantucket County
File:Raphaelle Peale - Artemas Ward (1727-1800) - H835 - Harvard Art Museums.jpg Artemas Ward (Shrewsbury)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background:Template:Party color" \| Pro-Administration	March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1790. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
District inactive		March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:George Leonard of Congress.jpg George Leonard (Raynham)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1795 on the fourth ballot. Retired.	1795–1803 "3rd Southern district"
Stephen Bullock (Rehoboth)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1797 on the third ballot. Lost re-election.
Phanuel Bishop (Rehoboth)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1803	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1799 on the fourth ballot. Re-elected in 1800. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
File:Nahum Mitchell, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile LCCN2007675931.tif Nahum Mitchell (East Bridgewater)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1802. Lost re-election.	1803–1815 "Plymouth district"
Joseph Barker (Middleboro)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1809	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Retired.
William Baylies (Bridgewater)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1809 – June 28, 1809	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1808. Lost election challenge.Template:Efn
Charles Turner Jr. (Scituate)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	June 28, 1809 – March 3, 1813	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Won election challenge.Template:Efn Re-elected in 1810. Lost re-election.
William Baylies (Bridgewater)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1812. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
John W. Hulbert (Pittsfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1814. Retired.	1815–1823 "Berkshire district"
Henry Shaw (Lanesboro)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1819 on the second ballot. Retired.
File:Henry Williams Dwight by John Trumbull 1827.jpeg Henry W. Dwight (Stockbridge)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1820. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
Samuel C. Allen (Greenfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr. Re-elected in 1825. Re-elected in 1826. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	1823–1833 "Franklin district"
	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829	Template:USCongressOrdinal
George Grennell Jr. (Greenfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1828. Re-elected in 1830. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
File:George Nixon Briggs-Southworth and Hawes.jpg George N. Briggs (Lanesboro)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1833. Re-elected in 1834. Re-elected in 1836. Re-elected in 1838. Re-elected in 1840. Retired.	1833–1843 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843	Template:USCongressOrdinal		1833–1843 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:JuliusRockwell.jpg Julius Rockwell (Pittsfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1851	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected late on the sixth ballot in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Re-elected in 1848. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	1843–1853 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:JohnZGoodrich.jpg John Z. Goodrich (Glendale)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1851. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.	1843–1853 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Nathaniel Prentice Banks.jpg Nathaniel P. Banks (Waltham)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1852. Re-elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856. Resigned to become Governor of Massachusetts.	1853–1863 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857
	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1857 – December 24, 1857
Vacant		December 24, 1857 – January 31, 1858	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Daniel W Gooch.png Daniel W. Gooch^[13] (Melrose)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	January 31, 1858 – March 3, 1863	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Banks's term. Re-elected in 1858. Re-elected in 1860. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
File:George Boutwell, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg George S. Boutwell (Groton)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1863 – March 12, 1869	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1862. Re-elected in 1864. Re-elected in 1866. Re-elected in 1868. Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Treasury.	1863–1873 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		March 12, 1869 – November 2, 1869	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:George Merrick Brooks (Massachusetts Congressman).jpg George M. Brooks (Concord)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	November 2, 1869 – May 13, 1872	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Boutwell's term. Re-elected in 1870. Resigned.
Vacant		May 13, 1872 – December 2, 1872	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Constantine C. Esty.png Constantine C. Esty (Framingham)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	December 2, 1872 – March 3, 1873	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Brooks's term. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:EbenezerRHoar.jpg Ebenezer R. Hoar (Concord)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1872. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	1873–1883 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:John K. Tarbox.jpg John K. Tarbox (Lawrence)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1874. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Benjamin Franklin Butler Brady-Handy.jpg Benjamin F. Butler^[14] (Lowell)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1876. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:WilliamARussell.jpg William A. Russell^[15] (Lawrence)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1878. Re-elected in 1880. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
File:Eben Francis Stone CDV by John Adams Whipple, 1862.jpg Eben F. Stone (Newburyport)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1882. Re-elected in 1884. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	1883–1893 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:William Cogswell2.jpg William Cogswell (Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1893	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1886. Re-elected in 1888. Re-elected in 1890. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.	1883–1893 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		March 4, 1893 – April 25, 1893	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Member Henry Cabot Lodge had been redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1892, but resigned to become a U.S. senator.	1893–1903 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:William Everett.jpg William Everett (Quincy)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	April 25, 1893 – March 3, 1895	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Cabot Lodge's term. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:William Emerson Barrett.png William Emerson Barrett^[16] (Melrose)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1894. Re-elected in 1896. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Ernest W Roberts Massachusetts Congressman.png Ernest W. Roberts^[17] (Chelsea)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1913	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1898. Re-elected in 1900. Re-elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Re-elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
	1903–1913 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1913	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Michael Francis Phelan.png Michael Francis Phelan (Lynn)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1921	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916. Re-elected in 1918. Lost re-election.	1913–1923 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Robert S. Maloney.png Robert S. Maloney (Lawrence)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1920. Lost re-election.	1913–1923 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:William P. Connery Jr. cph.3a01362.jpg William P. Connery Jr. (Lynn)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2; style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	March 4, 1923 – June 15, 1937	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Re-elected in 1934. Died.	1923–1933 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
1933–1943 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".			Template:USCongressOrdinal
	Vacant		June 16, 1937 – September 27, 1937	Template:USCongressOrdinal
	File:Lawrence J. Connery (Massachusetts Congressman).jpg Lawrence J. Connery^[18] (Lynn)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	September 28, 1937 – October 19, 1941	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish his brother's term. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Died.
	Vacant		October 20, 1941 – December 29, 1941	Template:USCongressOrdinal
	File:Thomas J. Lane (Massachusetts Congressman).jpg Thomas J. Lane (Lawrence)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=3; style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	December 30, 1941 – January 3, 1963	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Connery's term. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr and lost re-election.
1943–1953 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
1953–1963 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Torbert Macdonald.jpg Torbert H. Macdonald^[19] (Malden)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2; style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	January 3, 1963 – May 21, 1976	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Died.	1963–1973 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
1973–1983 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".			Template:USCongressOrdinal
	Vacant		May 22, 1976 – November 1, 1976	Template:USCongressOrdinal
	File:Ed Markey, Official Portrait, 112th Congress 2.jpg Ed Markey^[20] (Malden)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=4; style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	November 2, 1976 – January 3, 2013	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Macdonald's term. Simultaneously elected to a full term in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
1983–1993 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
1993–2003 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
2003–2013 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Mike Capuano.jpg Michael Capuano (Somerville)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2019	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Lost renomination.	2013–2023 File:Massachusetts US Congressional District 7 (since 2013).tif
File:Rep. Ayanna Pressley, 117th Congress.jpg Ayanna Pressley (Boston)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	January 3, 2019 – present	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Re-elected in 2022. Re-elected in 2024.
	2023–present File:Massachusetts's 7th congressional district in Boston (since 2023).svg	January 3, 2019 – present	Template:USCongressOrdinal