2013 Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election

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2013 Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election
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Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
  Katherine Clark 2013.jpg Addivinola.jpg
Nominee Katherine Clark Frank Addivinola
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote40,17219,319
Percentage65.8%31.5%
2013 special election in Massachusetts' 5th congressional district by municipality.svg
Municipality results
Clark:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     >90%
Addivinola:     50–60%
U.S. Representative before election

Ed Markey
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

Katherine Clark
Democratic

A special election for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district took place on December 10, 2013, due to the resignation of Democratic Congressman Ed Markey following his election to the United States Senate in a special election on June 25, 2013. [1] Primary elections were held on October 15, in which Democratic state senator Katherine Clark and Republican Frank Addivinola won their party nominations. State law required that Governor Deval Patrick call a special election between 145 and 160 days after the vacancy became official. [2] On December 10, Clark easily defeated Addivinola with almost 2/3 of the vote, holding the seat for the Democrats. [3] Clark's win marked the 92nd consecutive U.S. House loss by Republicans in Massachusetts since 1996. [4]

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Katherine Clark

State officials

Local officials

Organizations

Labor unions

  • APWU Local 100 [9]
  • IBEW Local 123 [9]
  • IBEW Local 2222 [9]
  • IBEW Local 2321 [9]
  • International Association of Fire Fighters Melrose Local 1617, Executive Board [9]
  • Ironworkers Local 7 [9]
  • NAGE/IBPO/SEIU Local 5000 [9]
  • Teamsters Local 25 [9]
  • United Steelworkers Union Local 12012 [9]

Newspapers

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Will
Brownsberger		Katherine
Clark		Peter
Koutoujian		Martin
Long		Paul
Maisano		Carl
Sciortino		Karen
Spilka		Undecided
Gerstein Bocian Agne* [16] September 23–25, 2013500± 4.4%12%27%16%——15%18%12%
GreenbergQuinlanRosner^ [17] September 22–24, 2013400± 4.9%11%19%15%——11%18%26%
Emerson College [18] September 13–17, 2013310± 4%11.3%23.9%19%1.3%1%5.2%15.5%22.6%
GreenbergQuinlanRosner^ [19] July 18–23, 2013405± 4.9%11%15%12%——4%14%43%

Results

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Democratic primary results by municipality
  Clark
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  Koutoujian
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   70–80%
  Sciortino
  •   40–50%
  Brownsberger
  •   60–70%
  Spilka
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
2013 Democratic primary results - Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Katherine Clark 21,959 31.5
Democratic Peter Koutoujian15,29021.9
Democratic Carl Sciortino11,18516.0
Democratic Will Brownsberger10,14214.6
Democratic Karen Spilka9,05713.0
Democratic Paul Masiano1,4982.2
Democratic Martin Long3940.6

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Frank
Addivinola		Mike
Stopa		Tom
Tierney		Undecided
Emerson College [18] September 13–17, 2013107± 9%13.1%6.5%24.3%56.1%

Results

2013 Republican primary results - Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Frank Addivinola 4,759 48.5
Republican Mike Stopa2,47725.3
Republican Tom Tierney2,45625.1

General election

Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election, 2013
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Katherine Clark 40,303 65.8
Republican Frank Addivinola19,32831.5
Independent James Aulenti9961.6
Independent James Hall4520.7
Write-in 2170.4
Total votes61,380 100.0
Democratic hold

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