Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district

Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.^[1] It covers 66.7% of Barnstable County, all of Dukes County, and all of Nantucket County population in 2010.^[2][3] Democrat Julian Cyr of Truro has represented the district since 2017.^[4] He is running unopposed for re-election in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.^[5][6]

Map of Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district, based on the 2010 United States census.

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities:^[3]

• Aquinnah
• Barnstable
• Brewster
• Chatham
• Chilmark
• Dennis
• Eastham
• Edgartown
• Gosnold
• Harwich
• Mashpee
• Nantucket
• Oak Bluffs
• Orleans
• Provincetown
• Tisbury
• Truro
• Wellfleet
• West Tisbury
• Yarmouth

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable, 2nd Barnstable, 3rd Barnstable, 4th Barnstable, 5th Barnstable, and Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket districts.^[7]

List of senators

Senator	Party	Years	Electoral history
Jack Aylmer[8]	Republican	1971 – 1981	Elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Resigned to become President of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Paul V. Doane[9]	Republican	1981 – 1989	Elected in 1981. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986.
Henri S. Rauschenbach[10]	Republican	1989 – January 3, 2001	Elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998.
Robert O'Leary[11]	Democratic	January 3, 2001 – January 5, 2011	Elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Ran for U.S. House in 2010.
Dan Wolf	Democratic	January 5, 2011 – January 4, 2017	Elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Retired.
Julian Cyr[4][12]	Democratic	January 4, 2017–	Elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020.

See also

• List of Massachusetts Senate elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate

References

1. "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
2. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Counties ↔ legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, Counties to State Senate Districts
3. "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 18, 2020
4. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: Cape and Islands district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
5. "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 11, 2020
6. "State Distributes Mail-In Ballots As Primary Nears", CapeNews.net, Falmouth, MA: Enterprise Newspapers, August 7, 2020
7. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, State Senate Districts to State House Districts
8. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
9. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
10. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
11. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
12. "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018, Seven incumbent Democratic senators face opposition

External links

• Ballotpedia
• "Cape & Islands District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
• "Cape and Islands District", Senatorcyr.com, archived from the original on May 14, 2020
• League of Women Voters of the Cape Cod Area
• League of Women Voters Martha’s Vineyard