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Upper house of the Massachusetts General Court From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] The Senate convenes in the Massachusetts State House in Boston, the state capital.
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Qualifications
The following are the qualifications to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate:[2]
- 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.
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Current leadership
Current members and districts
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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
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Current committees and members
Past composition of the Senate
Composition by municipality in the 190th General Court beginning on December 5, 2017.
Composition by municipality at the beginning of the 191st General Court.
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Notes
References
Further reading
External links
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