Massachusetts Senate

The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state. All but one of the districts are named for the counties in which they are located (the "Cape and Islands" district covers Dukes, Nantucket, and parts of Barnstable counties). Senators serve two-year terms, without term limits.<ref>Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Article LXXXII.</ref> The Senate convenes in the Massachusetts State House in Boston, the state capital.

Qualifications

The following are the qualifications to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Be 18 years of age
• Be a registered voter in Massachusetts
• Be an inhabitant of Massachusetts for five years
• Be a resident of the district when elected
• Receive at least 300 signatures on nomination papers

Recent party control

Democrats hold a supermajority in the Senate.

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total
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	Democratic	Republican		Vacant
Begin 189th (2015–2016)	Template:Party shading/Democratic rowspan=3 | 34	6	40	0
Begin 190th (2017–2018)
Begin 191st (2019–2020)
Begin 192nd (2021–2022)	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Democratic | 37	3	40	0
Begin 193rd (2023–2024)	40		0
End 193rd (2023–2024)	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 36	4	40	0
Begin 194th (2025–2026)	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 35	5	40	0
October 2, 2025<ref>Democrat Edward J. Kennedy (1st Middlesex) died. [1]</ref>	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 34		39	1
Latest voting share	Template:Party shading/Democratic|Template:Percentage	Template:Percentage

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Current members and districts

Template:Main Massachusetts Senate districts are named for the counties that contain a portion of the district ordered by percentage of the district's population that is within that county. If multiple districts would have the same name under this scheme, they are also given an ordinal number. The one exception is "Cape and Islands" which if the naming scheme were followed would be "Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket".

• Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire
• Bristol and Norfolk
• First Bristol and Plymouth
• Second Bristol and Plymouth
• Third Bristol and Plymouth
• Cape and Islands
• First Essex
• Second Essex
• Third Essex
• First Essex and Middlesex
• Second Essex and Middlesex
• Hampden
• Hampden and Hampshire
• Hampden, Hampshire, and Worcester
• Hampshire, Franklin, and Worcester
• First Middlesex
• Second Middlesex
• Third Middlesex
• Fourth Middlesex
• Fifth Middlesex
• Middlesex and Norfolk
• Middlesex and Suffolk
• Middlesex and Worcester
• Norfolk and Middlesex
• Norfolk and Plymouth
• Norfolk, Plymouth, and Bristol
• Norfolk and Suffolk
• Norfolk, Worcester, and Middlesex
• Plymouth and Barnstable
• First Plymouth and Norfolk
• Second Plymouth and Norfolk
• First Suffolk
• Second Suffolk
• Third Suffolk
• Suffolk and Middlesex
• First Worcester
• Second Worcester
• Worcester and Hampden
• Worcester and Hampshire
• Worcester and Middlesex

See also

• 2023–2024 Massachusetts legislature
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
• List of Massachusetts Senate delegations
• Massachusetts House of Representatives

Further reading

• Template:Cite book, 2007
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External links

• Senate Members of the General Court official government website
• Official Senate district definitions as of 2021
  • 2002
  • 2010, with names of senators
  • 2011
• State Senate of Massachusetts at Project Vote Smart
• Template:Ballotpedia