2006 Massachusetts Senate election

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Template:Future election The Massachusetts Senate has 34 Democrats, and 6 Republicans. The Democrats currently hold a supermajority. In order to take control of the House, Republicans would need to pick up 14 seats, or 8 seats to break the supermajority.^[1]^[2]

The 2006 Massachusetts House election is scheduled for the same date as the Senate election, as well as Federal and Gubernatorial elections (see Massachusetts genereal election, 2006).

Open Seats

1st Hampden and Hampshire
- Retiring Brian Lees (R - East Longmeadow)
  - Republican Candidate: Enrico John Villamaino III (R - East Longmeadow)
  - Republican Candidate: Kevin Corridan (R - Springfield)
  - Democratic Candidate: None

Seeking Reelection

Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket (Cape and Islands)
- Robert O'Leary (D - Barnstable)
  - Republican Challenger: Doug Bennett (R - Nantucket)
  - Republican Challenger: Ricardo Barros (R - Centerville)

Berkshire,Hampshire, and Franklin
- Andrea Nuciforo, Jr. (D - Pittsfield)
  - Democratic Challenger: Benjamin Downing (D - Pittsfield)
  - Republican Challenger: Matthew W. Kinnaman (R – Lee)^[3]

Bristol, and Norfolk
- James Timility (D - Walpole)
  - Republican Challenger: Beth Pelick (R - Walpole)
  - Republican Challenger: Michael Atwill (R - Mansfield)

1st Bristol, and Plymouth
- Joan Menard (D - Somerset)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Bristol, and Plymouth
- Mark Montigny (D - New Bedford)
  - Republican Challenger: None

1st Essex
- Steven Baddour (D - Methuen)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Essex
- Frederick Berry (D - Peabody)
  - Republican Challenger: None

1st Essex and Middlesex
- Bruce Tarr (R - Gloucester)
  - Democratic Challenger: None

2nd Essex and Middlesex
- Susan Tucker (D - Andover)
  - Republican Challenger: None

3rd Essex and Middlesex
- Thomas McGee (D - Lynn)
  - Republican Challenger: None

3rd Essex and Middlesex
- Thomas McGee (D - Lynn)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Hampden
- Stephen Buoniconti (D - West Springfield)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Hampden and Hampshire
- Michael Knapik (R - Westfield)
  - Democratic Challenger: None

Hampshire and Franklin
- Stanley Rosenberg (D - Amherst)
  - Republican Challenger: Michaela LeBlanc (R - Northampton)

1st Middlesex
- Steven Panagiotakos (D - Lowell)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Middlesex
- Pat Jehlen (D - Somerville)
  - Republican Challenger: None

3rd Middlesex
- Susan Fargo (D - Lincoln)
  - Republican Challenger: None

4th Middlesex
- Robert Havern III (D - Arlington)
  - Democratic Challenger: Joanna Gonsalves (D - Woburn)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Middlesex and Essex
- Richard Tisei (R - Wakefield)
  - Democratic Challenger: None

1st Middlesex and Norfolk
- Cynthia Stone Creem (D - Newton)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Middlesex and Norfolk
- Karen Spilka (D - Ashland)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex
- Jarrett Barrios (D - Cambridge)
  - Democratic Challenger: Stephen Winslow (D - Malden)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Middlesex and Worcester
- Pamela Resor (D - Acton)
  - Republican Challenger: Louis Marino (R - Ayer)

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth
- Brian Joyce (D - Milton)
  - Republican Challenger: James Aldred (R - Randolph)

Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex
- Scott P. Brown (R - Wrentham)
  - Democratic Challenger: None

Norfolk and Plymouth
- Michael Morrissey (D - Quincy)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Plymouth and Barnstable
- Therese Murray (D - Plymouth)
  - Republican Challenger: None

1st Plymouth and Bristol
- Marc Pacheco (D - Taunton)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Plymouth and Bristol
- Robert Creedon, Jr. (D - Brockton)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Plymouth and Norfolk
- Robert Hedlund (R - Weymouth)
  - Democratic Challenger: None

1st Suffolk
- John Hart, Jr. (D - Boston)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Suffolk
- Dianne Wilkerson (D - Boston)
  - Republican Challenger: Samiyah Diaz (R - Boston)

1st Suffolk and Middlesex
- Robert Travaglini (D - Boston)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Suffolk and Middlesex
- Steven Tolman (D - Boston)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Suffolk and Norfolk
- Marian Walsh (D - Boston)
  - Republican Challenger: Douglas Obey (R - Westwood)

1st Worcester
- Harriette Chandler (D - Worcester)
  - Republican Challenger: None

2nd Worcester
- Edward Augustus, Jr. (D - Worcester)
  - Republican Challenger: Richard Peters (R - Worcester)^[4]

Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin
- Stephen Brewer (D - Barre)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Worcester and Middlesex
- Robert Antonioni (D - Leominster)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Worcester and Norfolk
- Richard T. Moore (D - Uxbridge)
  - Republican Challenger: None

Sources

^ Senatorial Districts, via Mass.gov, accessed March 11 2006
^ Office of Campaign and Political Finance Commonwealth of Massachusetts, accessed March 11 2006
^ "Kinnaman sets sights on Senate", The Berkshire Eagle, April 19 2006
^ GOP lawyer to try race for 2nd Worcester Senate, Worcester Telegram & Gazette April 17, 2006

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