Massachusetts's 6th congressional district

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Massachusetts's 6th congressional district is located in northeastern Massachusetts. It contains almost all of Essex County, including the North Shore and Cape Ann and excluding the Merrimack Valley, as well as some towns in Middlesex County.

Recent election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results^[1]
2008	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Obama 57% - 41%
2008	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Kerry 63% - 37%
2010	Senate (Spec.)	align="right" style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Brown 59% - 41%
2010	Governor	align="right" style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Baker 50% - 41%
2012	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Obama 55% - 45%
2012	Senate	align="right" style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Brown 54% - 46%
2014	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Markey 58% - 42%
2014	Governor	align="right" style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Baker 55% - 41%
2016	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Clinton 55% - 37%
2018	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Warren 55% - 41%
	Governor	align="right" style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Baker 73% - 26%
	Attorney General	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Healey 67% - 33%
2020	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Biden 63% - 35%
2020	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Markey 63% - 36%
2022	Governor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Healey 61% - 37%
	Secretary of the Commonwealth	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Galvin 66% - 32%
	Attorney General	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Campbell 60% - 40%
	Auditor	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|DiZoglio 53% - 41%
2024	President	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Harris 58% - 38%
2024	Senate	align="right" style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"\|Warren 57% - 43%

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 two counties and 39 municipalities:^[2]

Essex County (31)

Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Rockport, Peabody, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury

Middlesex County (8)

Bedford (part; also 5th), Billerica (part; also 3rd; includes Pinehurst), Burlington, North Reading, Reading, Tewksbury, Wakefield, Wilmington

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

1840s

"Amherst, Belchertown, East Hampton, Enfield, Granby, Greenwich, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Pelham, Prescott, South Hadley, and Ware, in the County of Hampshire; Brimfield, Holland, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Monson, Palmer, Southwick, Springfield, Wales, Westfield, West Springfield, and Wilbraham, in the County of Hampden; Bernardston, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Leverett, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately in the County of Franklin; and Athol and Royalston, in the County of Worcester."^[3]

1850s

"The cities of Lynn, Newburyport, and Salem, and the towns of Amesbury, Beverly, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, Newbury, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Wenham, and West Newbury, in the county of Essex."^[4]

1890s

"Suffolk County: City of Boston, wards 3, 4, and 5, and the towns of Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop. Middlesex County: Towns of Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester. Essex County: Towns of Lynn, Nahant, Saugus, and Swampscott."^[5]

1910s

"Essex County: Cities of Beverly, Gloucester, Haverhill, Newburyport, and Salem; towns of Amesbury, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Newbury, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfleld, Wenham, and West Newbury."^[6]

1920s–1980s

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1990s

"Counties: Essex, Middlesex. Cities and townships: Amesbury, Bedford, Beverly, Boxford, Burlington, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Peabody, Reading (part), Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury, and Wilmington."^[7]

2003 to 2013

File:MA-06 congressional district.png

The district from 2003 to 2013

In Essex County:

The cities of: Amesbury, Beverly, Gloucester, Lynn, Newburyport, Peabody, and Salem

The towns of: Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, North Andover, Rockport, Rowley, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, and West Newbury.

In Middlesex County:

The towns of: Bedford, Billerica, Burlington, North Reading, Reading, Wakefield and Wilmington.

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created March 4, 1789
File:George Thatcher.jpg George Thatcher (Biddeford)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 Cumberland County and Lincoln County, District of Maine
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, 1791 – March 3, 1793	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected late in 1792. Lost re-election that same year.
District inactive		March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795	Template:USCongressOrdinal
John Reed Sr. (West Bridgewater)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1801	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1794. Re-elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. Retired.		1795–1803 "2nd Southern district"
Josiah Smith (Pembroke)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1800. Retired.		1795–1803 "2nd Southern district"
Samuel Taggart (Colerain)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1817	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1802. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Re-elected in 1812. Re-elected in 1814. Retired.	1803–1823 "Hampshire North district"
Samuel C. Allen (Greenfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Federalist	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1818. Re-elected in 1820. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.	1803–1823 "Hampshire North district"
File:John Locke 1764-1855 (page 118 crop).jpg John Locke (Ashby)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1823 on the third ballot. Re-elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Retired.	1823–1833 "Worcester North district"
	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829	Template:USCongressOrdinal
Joseph G. Kendall (Leominster)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Anti-Jackson	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1828. Re-elected in 1830. Retired.
George Grennell Jr. (Greenfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Anti-Jackson	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. Retired.	1833–1843 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:JamesCAlvord.jpg James Alvord (Greenfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1839 – September 27, 1839	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1838. Died.
Vacant		September 27, 1839 – January 14, 1840	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Osmyn Baker.jpg Osmyn Baker (Amherst)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	December 23, 1839 – March 3, 1845	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Alvord's term and seated January 14, 1840. Re-elected later in 1840. Re-elected in 1842. Retired.
	1843–1853 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	December 23, 1839 – March 3, 1845	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:George Ashmun.png George Ashmun (Springfield)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Re-elected in 1848. Retired.
George T. Davis (Greenfield)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 1850. Retired.
File:Charles Wentworth Upham.png Charles W. Upham (Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1852. Lost re-election.	1853–1863 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:TimothyDavis.jpg Timothy Davis (Gloucester)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Party color" \| Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:JohnBAlley.jpg John B. Alley^[8] (Lynn)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1858. Re-elected in 1860. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr.
File:Daniel W Gooch.png Daniel W. Gooch (Melrose)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1863 – September 1, 1865	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1862. Re-elected in 1864. Resigned to become Navy agent of the port of Boston.	1863–1873 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		September 2, 1865 – December 3, 1865	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Nathaniel Prentice Banks.jpg Nathaniel P. Banks^[9] (Waltham)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	December 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Gooch's term. Re-elected in 1866. Re-elected in 1868. Re-elected in 1870. Switched parties in 1872. Redistricted to the Template:Ushr and lost re-election.
	Template:Party shading/Liberal Republican \| Liberal Republican	December 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Bfbutler.jpg Benjamin F. Butler (Lowell)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	Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected in 1872. Lost re-election.	1873–1883 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:CharlesPerkinsThompson.jpg Charles Perkins Thompson (Gloucester)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. Lost re-election.
File:George B. Loring - Brady-Handy.jpg George B. Loring^[10](Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1876. Re-elected in 1878. Lost renomination.
File:Eben Francis Stone CDV by John Adams Whipple, 1862.jpg Eben F. Stone^[11] (Newburyport)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1880. Retired.
File:Henry B. Lovering (cropped).png Henry B. Lovering (Lynn)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1882. Re-elected in 1884. Lost re-election.	1883–1893 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Cabotlodgenationalportrait.jpg Henry Cabot Lodge (Nahant)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".
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, 1893 – May 22, 1895	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Redistricted from the Template:Ushr and re-elected in 1892. Re-elected in 1894. Died.	1893–1903 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		May 22, 1895 – November 4, 1895	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:WHMoody.jpg William H. Moody^[12] (Haverhill)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	November 5, 1895 – May 1, 1902	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Cogswell's term. Re-elected in 1896. Re-elected in 1898. Re-elected in 1900. Resigned to become Secretary of the Navy
Vacant		May 2, 1902 – November 3, 1902	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Augustus P. Gardner.png Augustus P. Gardner^[13] (Hamilton)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	November 4, 1902 – May 15, 1917	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Moody's term and re-elected to next term in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Re-elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Re-elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916. Resigned to enter the army.
	1903–1913 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	1913–1933 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		May 15, 1917 – November 6, 1917	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Willfred W. Lufkin.png Willfred W. Lufkin (Essex)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	November 6, 1917 – June 30, 1921	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Gardner's term. Re-elected in 1918. Re-elected in 1920. Resigned to become Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston
Vacant		June 30, 1921 – September 27, 1921	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Abram Piatt Andrew 1909.jpg Abram Andrew (Gloucester)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	September 27, 1921 – June 3, 1936	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Lufkin's term. Re-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.
		1933–1943 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	September 27, 1921 – June 3, 1936	Template:USCongressOrdinal
Vacant			June 3, 1936 – January 3, 1937	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:George J. Bates.png George J. Bates^[14] (Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	January 3, 1937 – November 1, 1949	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Died in a plane crash.
	1943–1953 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".			January 3, 1937 – November 1, 1949	Template:USCongressOrdinal
Vacant		November 1, 1949 – February 14, 1950	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:William Henry Bates 89th Congress 1965.png William H. Bates^[15] (Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	February 14, 1950 – June 22, 1969	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish his father's term. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Died.
		1953–1963 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	1963–1973 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vacant		June 22, 1969 – September 30, 1969	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Michael J. Harrington.jpg Michael J. Harrington (Beverly)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	September 30, 1969 – January 3, 1979	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected to finish Bates's term. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Retired.
		1973–1983 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	September 30, 1969 – January 3, 1979	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:MavroulesNicholas.jpg Nicholas Mavroules^[16] (Peabody)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	1973–1983 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1993	Template:USCongressOrdinal	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. Lost re-election.
	1983–1993 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".		January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1993	Template:USCongressOrdinal
File:Torkildsen.jpg Peter G. Torkildsen (Danvers)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1997	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Lost re-election.	1993–2003 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:John F Tierney congressional portrait 2009.jpg John F. Tierney (Salem)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" \| Democratic	January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2015	Template:USCongressOrdinal	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. Re-elected in 2012. Lost renomination.	1993–2003 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	2003–2013 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
	2013–2023 File:Massachusetts US Congressional District 6 (since 2013).tif
File:Seth Moulton (cropped).jpg Seth Moulton (Salem)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, 2015 – present	Template:USCongressOrdinal	Elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Re-elected in 2022. Re-elected in 2024.
	2023–present File:Massachusetts's 6th congressional district (since 2023).svg		January 3, 2015 – present	Template:USCongressOrdinal

Recent election results

The following are the results from the last four general elections for U.S. House of Representatives to represent the Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District:

Template:Ushr election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John F. Tierney (incumbent)	Script error: No such module "string".	48.3%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Richard Tisei	Script error: No such module "string".	47.3%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Daniel Fishman	Script error: No such module "string".	4.4%
Total votes			Script error: No such module "string".	100%
	Script error: No such module "Political party". hold