Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Hampden district

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Hampden district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Hampden County.^[1] Since 2007, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. of the Democratic Party has represented the district.^[2]

Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Hampden district, based on the 2010 United States census.

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities:^[3]

• part of East Longmeadow
• part of Springfield
• Wilbraham

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Hampden and Hampshire district and Hampden district.^[4]

Representatives

• Raymond A. Jordan^[2]
• Benjamin Swan^[2]
• Gale D. Candaras^[2]
• Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., 2007-current^[2][5]

See also

• List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Images

Portraits of legislators

• 
  Lewis Parker
• 
  Dexter Snow
• 
  Harold Howard
• 
  John Falvey
• 
  Howard Driscoll
• 
  Stephen Thomas Chmura
• 
  Arthur McKenna
• 
  Raymond Jordan
• 
  Benjamin Swan
• 
  Gale Candaras

References

1. "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
2. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 12th Hampden district". PD43+. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
3. Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
4. 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 House Districts to State Senate Districts
5. "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018, House Democrats...face opposition

External links

• Ballotpedia
• "12th Hampden District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).