Newton is a city in Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States. It is roughly 8 miles (13 km) west of downtown Boston,and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages. The city borders Boston to the northeast and southeast,Brookline to the east,Watertown and Waltham to the north,and Weston,Wellesley,and Needham to the west. At the 2020 U.S. census,the population of Newton was 88,923.
Francis Anthony Keating II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 25th governor of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2003.
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012.
Morgan Quitno Press is a research and publishing company founded in 1989 and based in Lawrence,Kansas. The company compiled annual reference books of US state and city statistics. Its primary volumes included State Rankings,Health Care State Rankings,Education State Rankings,Crime State Rankings,City Crime Rankings,and State Trends. In 2007,Morgan Quitno Press was acquired by CQ Press,a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. CQ Press later was acquired by Sage Publications which incorporated the Morgan Quitno statistics into its Sage Stats database.
Gary Steven Schaer is an American Democratic Party politician who represents the 36th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since he took office on January 10,2006. He also serves on the Passaic,New Jersey City Council where he is the council president. Schaer is the first Orthodox Jew in the New Jersey Legislature. In the Assembly,Schaer was Deputy Speaker from 2012 to 2023 and chair of the Budget Committee from 2014 to 2017,and has been the Assembly's Policy Chair since 2020.
Hansen Hashim Clarke is an American politician and former U.S. Congressman. A Democrat,he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district from 2011 to 2013. Prior to his election to Congress,he had been a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1991 through 1992 and from 1999 through 2002,and represented the 1st district in the Michigan Senate from 2003 to 2011. Clarke was also the first U.S. Congressman of Bangladeshi descent.
Francis Ball Fay was a merchant,American politician,and philanthropist. He served as U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
John B. Nelson is an American Republican politician,former city councilman of Phoenix,Arizona former member of the Arizona House of Representatives and a former member of the Arizona Senate. Nelson is a member of the Republican Party.
2009 United States elections were held on Tuesday,November 3. During this off-year election,the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. In total,only the seat representing New York's 23rd congressional district changed party hands,increasing the Democratic Party's majority over the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives,258–177.
George Keverian was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 until 1991. In his role in the legislature,he was an advocate for greater openness in leadership,free speech and government reform.
Setti David Warren is an American politician. He served as Mayor of Newton,Massachusetts,a suburb of Boston,and is a former Democratic candidate for United States Senate in 2012. He is the first popularly elected African-American mayor in Massachusetts.
Robert Correia was an American politician who represented the 12th and 7th Bristol Districts in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 to 2008 and served as the 41st Mayor of Fall River,Massachusetts from 2008 to 2010. He ran for re-election as Mayor in 2009 but finished third in the mayoral primary behind City Councilor Cathy Ann Viveiros and Attorney William Flanagan.
A Massachusetts general election was held on November 3,1964,in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ruth B. Balser is an American state legislator serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She is a Newton resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
John Christopher Velis is an American state legislator and Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate since 2020. He previously represented the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district,which includes his hometown of Westfield,and currently represents the Hampden and Hampshire district after the 2020 census. Prior his election to the state senate,Velis was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2014 to 2020.
The 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Republican governor Charlie Baker and lieutenant governor Karyn Polito sought reelection to a second term in office,facing Democratic challengers Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey,respectively. Candidates were selected in the primary election held on September 4,2018.
John Barrett III is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was elected to the post on November 7,2017,filling the vacant seat previously held by Gailanne Cariddi,who had died of cancer in June 2017. He represents the furthest northwest district in the state,the 1st Berkshire district. Barrett currently serves as chair of the House Committee on Ethics. Barrett was reelected to the House of Representatives in 2018.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were held on November 3,2020,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Massachusetts,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on September 1.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Springfield,Massachusetts.
