As a result of the

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, the Democrats picked up one open seat in the

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, the only change from the previous session. The current session began in January, 2007, and consists of 35 Democrats and 5 Republicans. The 2006 Massachusetts House election was held on the same date as the Senate election, as well as Federal and Gubernatorial elections ''(see

)''. Twenty-seven of the forty seats were left uncontested by one of the major parties in the 2006 election.

Results

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, 34 , 35 , +1 , 1,414,429 , 75.9% , - , , style="text-align: left" , Republican Party , 6 , 5 , −1 , 421,781 , 22.6% , - , , style="text-align: left" , Independents , 0 , 0 , 0 , 11,720 , 0.6% , - , style="background-color: ; width: 5px" , , style="text-align: left" ,

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, 0 , 0 , 0 , 1,988 , 0.1% , - , style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px" , , style="text-align: left" , Others , 0 , 0 , 0 , 13,886 , 0.7% , - ! colspan=2 align=left , Total , 40 , 40 , 0 , 1,863,804 , 100% , -

Complete list of Senate contests in 2006

''Official results fro
State Election Results 2006
(PDF, 340 kB) on the Massachusetts Elections Division website''

Primary results

''Official results fro
State Primary Election Results 2006
(PDF, 196k) on the Massachusetts Elections Division website''

Democratic primary

Republican primary

References

Election Results from the Boston Globe

External links

*
Samiyah Diaz campaign page

Helen Sharron campaign page

Margie Ware campaign page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Massachusetts Senate Elections, 2006

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