List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate in the United States. The legislative districts were created to apportion elected representation in the Massachusetts Senate based on voter population.[1] In recent decades, redistricting occurs every ten years.
Former state senate districts
- 1st Bristol district[2]
- 1st Hampden district[2]
- 1st Norfolk district[3]
- 1st Plymouth district[4]
- 1st Suffolk and Norfolk district[2]
- 1st Worcester and Middlesex district[2]
- 2nd Bristol district[2]
- 2nd Hampden district[2]
- 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district[4]
- 2nd Norfolk district[3]
- 2nd Plymouth district[4]
- 2nd Suffolk and Norfolk district[2]
- 2nd Worcester and Middlesex district[2]
- 3rd Bristol district[5]
- 3rd Essex and Middlesex district[6]
- 3rd Middlesex and Norfolk district
- 3rd Norfolk district[7]
- 3rd Suffolk district[5]
- 3rd Worcester district[5]
- 4th Essex district[5]
- 4th Suffolk district[5]
- 4th Worcester district[5]
- 5th Essex district[5]
- 5th Suffolk district[5]
- 5th Worcester district[7]
- 6th Essex district[8]
- 6th Middlesex district[5]
- 6th Suffolk district[5]
- 7th Middlesex district[5]
- 7th Suffolk district[3]
- 8th Middlesex district[5]
- 8th Suffolk district[8]
- 9th Suffolk district[8]
- Barnstable County[9]
- Berkshire district[4]
- Berkshire and Hampshire district[7]
- Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire district[2]
- Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin district[10]
- Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin district[6]
- Berkshire, Hampshire and Hampden district[11]
- Bristol and Plymouth district[2]
- Cape district[12]
- Cape and Plymouth district[5]
- Central Worcester district[12]
- East Hampden district[12]
- East Norfolk district[12]
- East Worcester district[12]
- Essex County[13]
- Franklin district[12]
- Franklin and Hampshire district[2]
- Hampden and Berkshire district[5]
- Hampden and Hampshire district[2]
- Hampshire district[12]
- Hampshire and Franklin district[6]
- Island district[12]
- Middle Plymouth district[12]
- Middlesex and Essex district[6]
- Middlesex and Norfolk district[2]
- Middlesex County[14]
- Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester district[2]
- Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex district[6]
- Norfolk district[2]
- Norfolk and Bristol district[2]
- Norfolk and Middlesex district[3]
- Norfolk County[15]
- North Berkshire district[12]
- North Bristol district[12]
- North Norfolk district[12]
- North Plymouth district[12]
- North-East Worcester district[12]
- Plymouth district[2]
- Plymouth County[16]
- South Berkshire district[12]
- South Bristol district[12]
- South Plymouth district[12]
- South-East Worcester district[12]
- South-West Worcester district[12]
- Suffolk and Middlesex district[2]
- Suffolk and Norfolk district[6]
- Suffolk County[17]
- Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex district[2]
- West Bristol district[12]
- West Hampden district[12]
- West Norfolk district[12]
- West Worcester district[12]
- Worcester district[2]
- Worcester and Hampden district[3]
- Worcester and Hampshire district[8]
- Worcester County[18]
- Worcester, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire district[2]
- Worcester, Hampden and Hampshire district[5]
- Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin district[6]
See also
- List of current districts of the Massachusetts Senate
- History of the Massachusetts General Court
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Apportionment in US state legislatures
References
- ^ Douglas Keith; Eric Petry (2015), Apportionment of State Legislatures, 1776-1920, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Massachusetts General Court, "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor And Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (1987) – via Massachusetts State Library
- ^ a b c d e Massachusetts General Court, "An Act To Establish Councillor And Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (1960)
- ^ a b c d Massachusetts General Court, "An Act Establishing Councillor And Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (1977)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Massachusetts General Court, "An Act Establishing Councillor And Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (1970)
- ^ a b c d e f g Massachusetts General Court, "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2001)
- ^ a b c Massachusetts General Court, "An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Session Laws: Acts (1866)
- ^ a b c d Massachusetts General Court, "An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Session Laws: Acts (1886)
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Barnstable County
- ^ Massachusetts General Court, "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor And Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (1993) – via Massachusetts State Library
- ^ Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1918.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Massachusetts General Court, "An Act to Divide the Commonwealth into Forty Districts for the Choice of Senators", Session Laws: Acts (1857)
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Essex County
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Middlesex County
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Norfolk County
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Plymouth County
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Suffolk County
- ^ "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020,
Worcester County
Further reading
- "Senate Alters Some Districts: Shakes Up Bill to Meet Fuller Demands in Part", Boston Globe, May 26, 1926
- "Democrats Rap Redistricting Bill for State Senate", Boston Globe, May 20, 1947
- "Changing Senate Districts a Dizzying Jigsaw Job", Boston Globe, November 26, 1959
- "Redistricting Too Stingy, House Democrats' Plaint", Boston Globe, May 19, 1960
- Massachusetts General Court, Legislative Research Council (April 20, 1977), Sixth interim report of the joint special committee established for the purpose of studying (1) a new division of the Commonwealth into representative districts and (2) a new division of the Commonwealth into forty senatorial and eight executive councillors districts (PDF) – via New England School of Law
- Massachusetts General Court, Legislative Research Council (May 2, 1977), "Pre-1972 history of legislative redistricting in Massachusetts", Seventh interim report of the joint special committee established to study a new division of the Commonwealth into one hundred and sixty representative districts, forty senatorial districts, and either councillor districts (PDF), p. 19+
- "Plan's meandering district lines protect Hub incumbents", Boston Globe, July 13, 1987
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Obsolete Massachusetts Senate districts.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate election statistics". PD43+.
- "Massachusetts: State Senate", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 – via Tufts University (Lampi Collection)
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Districts of the Massachusetts General Court
- Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden
- Bristol and Norfolk
- Bristol and Plymouth: 1st, 2nd
- Cape and Islands
- Essex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Essex and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
- Hampden
- Hampden and Hampshire: 1st, 2nd
- Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester
- Middlesex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
- Middlesex and Norfolk: 1st, 2nd
- Middlesex and Suffolk
- Middlesex and Worcester
- Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex
- Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth
- Norfolk and Plymouth
- Norfolk and Suffolk
- Plymouth and Barnstable
- Plymouth and Bristol: 1st, 2nd
- Plymouth and Norfolk
- Suffolk: 1st, 2nd
- Suffolk and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
- Worcester: 1st, 2nd
- Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex
- Worcester and Middlesex
- Worcester and Norfolk
- Obsolete districts
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| Defunct districts |
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