2020 Massachusetts elections

2020 Massachusetts general election

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2020 United States elections

The 2020 Massachusetts general election was held on November 3, 2020, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections were held on September 1, 2020.[1][2]

At the federal level, all nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were contested. Also contested was the United States Senate seat held by Ed Markey.[3]

At the state level, all seats in the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) were contested.

To vote by mail, registered Massachusetts voters had to request a ballot by October 30, 2020.[4] As of early October, some 504,043 voters had requested mail ballots.[5][6]

  1. ^ "2020 Massachusetts State Primary and State Election Schedule" (PDF). Secretary of the Commonwealth Elections Division. April 17, 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020 – via MA.us.
  2. ^ "Mass. 2020 Primary: What To Know About Voting By Mail Or At The Polls". www.wbur.org. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  3. ^ McGrane, Victoria (June 21, 2020). "Meet Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy, now more woke". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Lily Hay Newman (August 27, 2020), "How to Vote by Mail and Make Sure It Counts", Wired, archived from the original on October 6, 2020
  5. ^ Michael P. McDonald, "2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics", U.S. Elections Project, retrieved October 10, 2020, Detailed state statistics
  6. ^ Mail-In Ballots Continue To Be Popular Across Massachusetts, Cbslocal.com, October 9, 2020