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← Rundown2026 Massachusetts Senate race

2026 election · U.S. Senate

2026 Massachusetts Senate race

Incumbent: Edward J. Markey (Democrat)

Edward J. MarkeyEdward J. MarkeyDemocrat50%
Seth MoultonSeth MoultonDEMOCRATIC PARTY50%
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Public polling

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MarkeyDeatonMoulton
30%45%60%Mar 4Oct 28Jun 23Markey 54.0%Deaton 30.6%Moulton 54.2%
Trend: trailing 5-poll average · hover a dot for the poll behind it

Declared candidates

Source: FEC filings + public polling
  • Edward J. Markey
    Edward J. Markey

    Democrat · Incumbent

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (13) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports ensuring affordable abortion coverage and protecting women's right to reproductive services. [1][2][3]
    • Climate change: Supports leading on climate action to create good-paying jobs and build a clean energy economy.

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Seats and incumbents from the public congress-legislators dataset; candidates from FEC filings and Wikipedia polling rosters; polls and aggregation averages via Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA) and public polling exports. The community pick is an unscientific reader poll. All active races →

PollsterDatesCandidate%
University of New Hampshire2026-06-23Ed Markey50
University of New Hampshire2026-06-23John Deaton34
University of New Hampshire2026-06-23Seth Moulton50
Suffolk University2026-06-12Seth Moulton54
Suffolk University2026-06-12John Deaton30
Suffolk University2026-06-12Ed Markey55
University of New Hampshire2026-04-20Seth Moulton56
University of New Hampshire2026-04-20Ed Markey55
University of New Hampshire2026-04-20John Deaton32
University of New Hampshire2026-02-16John Deaton27
University of New Hampshire2026-02-16Seth Moulton59
University of New Hampshire2026-02-16Ed Markey56
Cygnal (R)2026-01-25John Deaton30
Cygnal (R)2026-01-25Ed Markey54
Suffolk University2025-11-23John Deaton31
Suffolk University2025-11-23Ed Markey54
Suffolk University2025-11-23Seth Moulton52
SurveyUSA2025-03-04John Deaton26
SurveyUSA2025-03-04Ed Markey45
[1]
[2]
  • Energy & Climate Change: Advocates strong federal action to combat climate change, supports clean energy investment, and has authored major climate and energy efficiency legislation. [1][2]
  • Energy production: Supports investing in clean energy resources like wind, solar and geothermal to create jobs. [1][2]
  • Health Care: Supports lowering health care costs, expanding access, and strengthening patient protections and public health programs. [1]
  • Health care: Supports lowering prescription drug and health care costs while expanding access. [1][2]
  • Housing costs: Supports major investments in affordable homes and renter protections. [1][2]
  • Human Rights: Supports strong U.S. leadership on human rights, opposes torture and arbitrary detention, backs closing Guantanamo, and has pushed accountability for abuses in Myanmar, Hong Kong, and China. [1]
  • Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform and defends immigrant entrepreneurs and green card holders against restrictive policies, including opposing SBA lending bans on immigrants. [1][2][3]
  • Jobs & Economy: Supports a more progressive tax code, cuts to defense and nuclear weapons spending, ending oil subsidies, and investment in clean energy and high-tech industries to create jobs. [1]
  • LGBTQ+ rights: Supports strong LGBTQ+ protections and equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. [1][2]
  • Taxes: Supports enacting a more progressive tax code. [1]
  • Telecommunications, the Internet & Privacy: Supports net neutrality, competition in telecom services, and stronger online privacy protections especially for children. [1]
  • AR
    Alexander Rikleen

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (4) ▾
    • Campaign finance reform: Supports campaign finance reform with the goal of overturning Citizens United. [1]
    • Senate procedural opposition: Supports aggressive use of Senate procedures including nominee holds to resist the Trump administration. [1][2][3]
    • Supreme Court reform: Supports expanding the Supreme Court, instituting term limits for justices, and codifying an enforceable ethics code. [1][2][3]
    • Voting rights protections: Supports strengthening voting rights laws. [1][2]
  • JD
    John Deaton

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (11) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law as a pro-choice position protecting access. [1][2]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning stock, crypto or commodities trading by Members of Congress. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports constitutional amendment limiting service to 3 House terms and 2 Senate terms. [1]
    • Energy production: Opposes the Green New Deal and supports balanced solutions for lower energy costs and American energy. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting waste and balancing the budget to address inflation and fiscal discipline. [1]
    • Health care: Supports lowering prescription drug costs and price transparency without expanding bureaucracy or taxes. [1]
    • Housing costs: Supports policies that lower housing costs and encourage smart development for homeownership. [1][2]
    • Israel: Supports Israel's absolute right to defend itself and views it as a key U.S. ally. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting red tape and reducing regulatory burdens that hinder development and business. [1]
    • School choice: Supports expanding school choice and vocational training for practical education paths. [1][2]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports additional Ukraine funding only with metrics for financial and tactical independence. [1]
  • JT
    Joseph Tache

    OTHER

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (5) ▾
    • Civil Liberties and Rights: Supports ending the right-wing assault on rights and stopping scapegoating of immigrants, Black America, women, and the LGBTQ community. [1][2][3]
    • Climate solutions: Supports implementing real climate solutions only with working people in power. [1][2][3]
    • Israel: Supports freeing Palestine and ending the billionaires' war drive. [1][2][3]
    • Jobs and wages: Supports meaningful jobs and living wages for all utilizing technology and people power. [1][2][3]
    • Seize the top 100 corporations: Supports seizing the top 100 corporations and reorganizing the economy to meet needs including housing, healthcare, nutritious food, education, childcare, dignified retirement, and a living wage for all. [1][2][3]
  • MG
    Morgan Gifford Dawicki

    INDEPENDENT

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (7) ▾
    • Affordability: Supports bold policies targeting cost drivers like housing, groceries, energy, childcare and healthcare to restore affordability and opportunity. [1]
    • China & trade: Supports revising U.S. strategy toward China by doubling down on comparative advantages rather than relying on tariffs alone. [1]
    • Economy: Supports a Fair Deal Doctrine to balance Capital and Labor so American workers share more in wealth creation. [1]
    • Education: Supports investing in public schools, private institutions, workforce development programs, academic freedom and critical thinking. [1]
    • Health care: Supports expanding enrollment, strengthening community-based care in underserved areas, and restoring decision-making power to physicians over insurance companies. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports reforming outdated zoning and permitting laws to accelerate housing construction and infrastructure projects. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting red tape and reforming permitting laws to remove bottlenecks in housing and infrastructure. [1]
  • NA
    Nathan Alexander Bech

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
  • Seth Moulton
    Seth Moulton

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (18) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports a woman's right to choose and opposes federal abortion bans after 20 weeks. [1][2][3]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that curbs illegal immigration while providing a path to citizenship for those who follow the law. [1][2]
    • China Policy: Calls for confronting China's human rights abuses through sanctions and diplomacy while pursuing a smart trade deal and stronger regional security alliances to counter China. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports age limits for Congress and term limits for committee chairs. [1]
    • Democratic Party Strategy: Argues Democrats need to rebrand and better address economic and immigration concerns, citing being out of touch as a factor in electoral losses. [1][2]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports protecting election integrity through measures like voter identification requirements. [1]
    • Government Ethics / Prediction Markets: Leads efforts to prohibit congressional staff from participating in prediction markets to prevent profiting from nonpublic information gained through official duties. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Supports background checks for all gun purchases and ending the civilian sale of weapons of war. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports a national public option health care plan to compete with private insurers. [1]
    • Immigration: Criticizes Democrats for lacking a clear immigration plan, arguing the party has relied mainly on opposition to Trump rather than offering solutions, while calling for immigration reform. [1][2][3]
    • Iran Nuclear Deal: Stated support for rejoining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) as the best way to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. [1]
    • Israel: Supports Israel's right to defend itself after the Hamas attack while urging Israel to heed lessons from the War on Terror. [1]
    • Israel-Hamas Conflict: Condemns the Hamas terrorist attack and supports Israel's right to defend itself, while urging Israel to apply lessons from the U.S. War on Terror. [1]
    • Mental Healthcare: Advocates for expanding mental healthcare access nationwide, drawing on his own experience with post-traumatic stress after serving in the Iraq War. [1]
    • Mental health: Supports expanding mental healthcare access, drawing from personal experience with post-traumatic stress. [1][2]
    • Prediction Market Integrity: Supports prohibiting congressional staff from participating in prediction markets to prevent profiting from nonpublic information. [1][2]
    • Transportation Infrastructure: Supports modernizing U.S. transportation infrastructure, including high-speed and regional rail, beyond basic repairs to roads and bridges. [1][2]
    • Women's sports: Opposes transgender athletes competing in women's sports. [1][2]
  • SD
    Shiva Dr Ayyadurai

    INDEPENDENT

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (10) ▾
    • Abortion: Views abortion as a personal decision involving two lives. [1][2]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports strong borders, law enforcement, and a path to citizenship for those with clean records. [1][2]
    • Election integrity: Supports preserving ballot images and hand-counted paper ballots. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Opposes more restrictive gun control measures. [1]
    • Health care: Supports decentralized decisions by patients and doctors without middlemen or government mandates. [1]
    • Israel: Supports defending Israel but opposes US funding to Israel. [1][2]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports parents' rights to homeschool and opposes the educational-industrial complex. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Opposes additional regulations to prevent climate change. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports low taxes for innovators and job creators. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Opposes US involvement in Ukraine-Russia conflict, viewing Ukraine as a Western pawn. [1]
    • Full rundown + map →
    📊 Polling averageEd Markey 50%Seth Moulton 50%John Deaton 34%1 polls · recency-weighted