Elections · U.S. House · Massachusetts
Massachusetts House race, District 2
James McGovern holds this seat. Each party still has to pick its nominee in the primary on September 1, 2026 before the November ballot is set.
The primaries
No Republican has filed a campaign with the FEC for this seat yet.
Each party picks its nominee in the primary. Order is neutral; the bar is money filed with the FEC, not a prediction of who wins.
The seat
James McGovern
Democrat · Holds the seat now
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The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $865K
- Outside money
- $10
How to vote in Massachusetts
- PrimarySeptember 1, 2026In 4 days
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 10 days before the election.
Who is spending on this race
The 1 group spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
How this seat voted last time
D+38 in 2024
- James P. McGovernWon68.6%
- Cornelius Shea31.1%
366,328 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
The district
Census context- People
- 787K
- Median household income
- $98K
- Unemployment
- 5.2%
- Living below the poverty line
- 10.7%
- Without health insurance
- 2.3%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.