1986 general · November 4, 1986

1986 Massachusetts House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Massachusetts House of Representatives district in the 1986 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 160 seats

After the electionD 126 · R 33 · 1 other
Races160
Changed party4
Unopposed67%107 races
Incumbents defeated2

Every district

D 126 · R 33 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Henri Rauschenbach (R)40.7
HD-2Peter B. Morin (R)6.3
HD-3Thomas S. Cahir (D)36.7
HD-7Daniel E. Bosley (D)57.6
HD-8Sherwood Guernsey (D)43.2
HD-9Robert F. Jakubowicz (D)Unopposed
HD-10William B. Vernon (R)Unopposed
HD-11Stephen J. Karol (D)41.5
HD-12Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. (D)51.5
HD-13Philip Travis (D)56.0
HD-14Joan M. Menard (D)Unopposed
HD-15Albert Herren (D)62.6
HD-16Robert Correia (D)Unopposed
HD-17Charles E. Silvia (D)12.7
HD-18Roger L. Tougas (D)Unopposed
HD-19John C. Bradford (R)10.5
HD-20Barry G. Trahan (IND)3.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-21Joseph McIntyre (D)Unopposed
HD-22Denis Lawrence (D)Unopposed
HD-23Kevin Poirier (R)Unopposed
HD-24Barbara A. Hildt (D)Unopposed
HD-25Thomas G. Palumbo (R)Unopposed
HD-26Frank A. Emilio (D)54.9
HD-27Forrester A. Clark Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-28Patricia G. Fiero (D)14.0
HD-29Frances F. Alexander (D)18.6
HD-30J. Michael Ruane (D)Unopposed
HD-31Lawrence R. Alexander (D)Unopposed
HD-32Steven Angelo (D)Unopposed
HD-33Vincent J. Lozzi (D)Unopposed
HD-34Thomas W. McGee (D)Unopposed
HD-35Tom Walsh (D)24.5
HD-36Peter G. Torkildsen (R)32.9
HD-37Joseph N. Hermann (D)Unopposed
HD-38Larry F. Giordano (D)59.5
HD-39Kevin Blanchette (D)Unopposed
HD-40Susan C. Tucker (D)25.6
HD-42Jonathan L. Healy (R)Unopposed
HD-43Carmen D. Buell (D)Unopposed
HD-44William E. Moriarty (D)45.9
HD-45Iris Holland (R)Unopposed
HD-46Michael P. Walsh (D)Unopposed
HD-47Steven D. Pierce (R)Unopposed
HD-48Robert J. Rohan (D)Unopposed
HD-49Walter A. Defilippi (R)Unopposed
HD-50Thomas M. Petrolati (D)Unopposed
HD-51Kenneth M. Lemanski (D)Unopposed
HD-52Athan Catjakis (D)Unopposed
HD-53Anthony Scibelli (D)Unopposed
HD-54Paul E. Caron (D)Unopposed
HD-55Raymond A. Jordan (D)Unopposed
HD-56William P. Nagle Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-57Shannon P. Obrien (D)19.1
HD-58Stanley C. Rosenberg (D)40.0
HD-59Augusta Hornblower (R)Unopposed
HD-60John F. Macgovern (R)2.9
HD-61Patricia A. Walrath (D)Unopposed
HD-62Robert A. Durand (D)Unopposed
HD-63Joseph M. Connolly (D)32.2
HD-64Barbara E. Gray (R)57.1
HD-65David P. Magnani (D)Unopposed
HD-66Barbara Gardner (D)12.2Flipped
HD-67Peter G. Trombley (D)Unopposed
HD-68Anthony M. Mandile (D)Unopposed
HD-69David B. Cohen (D)Unopposed
HD-70Susan D. Schur (D)Unopposed
HD-71Lucile P. Hicks (R)Unopposed
HD-72John H. Loring (R)Unopposed
HD-73Stephen W. Doran (D)21.9
HD-74Carol C. Cleven (R)10.8
HD-75John F. Cox (D)Unopposed
HD-76Edward A. Lelacheur (D)Unopposed
HD-77Susan F. Rourke (D)Unopposed
HD-78James R. Miceli (D)Unopposed
HD-79Geoffrey C. Beckwith (D)Unopposed
HD-80Richard R. Tisei (R)63.9
HD-81Augusto F. Grace (D)15.2
HD-82Michael J. Rea Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-83Robert A. Havern III (D)50.7
HD-84Mary Jane Gibson (D)Unopposed
HD-85Charles F. Flaherty (D)Unopposed
HD-86Saundra Graham (D)Unopposed
HD-87Peter A. Vellucci (D)68.6
HD-88Joseph K. Mackey (D)Unopposed
HD-89Marie E. Howe (D)Unopposed
HD-90John C. Bartley (D)39.8
HD-91Nicholas Paleologos (D)Unopposed
HD-92Sherman W. Saltmarsh (R)8.1
HD-93Timothy F. Oleary (D)11.9Flipped
HD-94John C. McNeil (D)Unopposed
HD-95Michael J. McGlynn (D)Unopposed
HD-96Michael W. Morrissey (D)Unopposed
HD-97Thomas F. Brownell (D)Unopposed
HD-98Robert A. Cerasoli (D)Unopposed
HD-99Robert B. Ambler (D)Unopposed
HD-100Suzanne M. Bump (D)Unopposed
HD-101John H. Flood (D)56.8
HD-102M. Joseph Manning (D)Unopposed
HD-103Marjorie A. Clapprood (D)Unopposed
HD-104Francis H. Woodward (D)Unopposed
HD-105Daniel J. Ranieri (D)Unopposed
HD-106Marielouise Kehoe (D)Unopposed
HD-107Gregory W. Sullivan (D)Unopposed
HD-108Ellen M. Canavan (R)17.7
HD-109Robert H. Marsh (R)14.8
HD-110John A. Businger (D)Unopposed
HD-111Peter Forman (R)Unopposed
HD-112Charles N. Decas (R)41.6
HD-113Mary Jeanette Murray (R)Unopposed
HD-114Frank M. Hynes (D)Unopposed
HD-115William J. Flynn Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-116Charles W. Mann (R)Unopposed
HD-117Robert Emmet Hayes (D)Unopposed
HD-118Jacqueline Lewis (R)35.4
HD-119Thomas P. Kennedy (D)Unopposed
HD-120Michael C. Creedon (D)Unopposed
HD-121Francis G. Mara (D)Unopposed
HD-123Emanuel Gus Serra (D)Unopposed
HD-124Richard A. Voke (D)Unopposed
HD-125Salvatore F. Dimasi (D)Unopposed
HD-126Michael F. Flaherty (D)Unopposed
HD-127Richard J. Rouse (D)Unopposed
HD-128Shirley Owenshicks (D)Unopposed
HD-129Gloria Fox (D)Unopposed
HD-130Mark Roosevelt (D)42.7
HD-131Byron Rushing (D)Unopposed
HD-132Charles Robert Doyle (D)2.3
HD-133Eleanor Myerson (D)20.3
HD-134John E. McDonough (D)Unopposed
HD-135W. Paul White (D)Unopposed
HD-136James T. Brett (D)Unopposed
HD-137Thomas M. Finneran (D)Unopposed
HD-138Angelo M. Scaccia (D)51.2
HD-139Kevin W. Fitzgerald (D)Unopposed
HD-140Kevin Honan (D)Unopposed
HD-141Bill Galvin (D)Unopposed
HD-142Mary Jane McKenna (R)Unopposed
HD-143Chester A. Suhoski (D)Unopposed
HD-144George J. Bourque (D)Unopposed
HD-145Angelo Picucci (D)Unopposed
HD-146Henry R. Grenier (D)0.6
HD-147Marilyn L. Travinski (D)Unopposed
HD-148Paul Kollios (D)Unopposed
HD-149Richard T. Moore (D)55.4
HD-150John R. Driscoll (R)53.3
HD-151Marie C. Parente (D)Unopposed
HD-152Peter Blute (R)8.9FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-153William Constantino Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-154Kevin Osullivan (D)35.9
HD-155Robert J. Bohigian (D)Unopposed
HD-156Andrew Collaro (D)Unopposed
HD-157William J. Glodis Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-158John J. Binienda Sr. (D)61.2
BERKSHIRE 4Christopher J. Hodgkins (D)Unopposed
HD-CAPEISLANDHoward C. Cahoon (R)21.0
HAMPDEN 13Robert L. Howarth (R)36.5
MIDDLESEX 38Angelo Marotta (D)17.9
MIDDLESEX 39George Keverian (D)Unopposed
SUFFOLK 20Alfred E. Saggese Jr. (D)Unopposed
SUFFOLK 21William G. Reinstein (D)Unopposed

Massachusetts House of Representatives

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner