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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160
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included in the
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of the
Massachusetts General Court The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. Th ...
. It covers parts of Middlesex County and Worcester County.
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Carolyn Dykema of Holliston represented the district from 2009 until her resignation to take a private sector job in 2022.


Towns represented

The district as drawn with 2010 census data includes the following localities: * Holliston * Hopkinton * Southborough * one precinct of
Westborough Westborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,567 at the 2020 census, in over 7,000 households. Incorporated in 1717, the town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed ...
This district boundary overlaps those of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk district and its Middlesex and Worcester district. The new boundaries, drawn from 2020 census data, include: * Holliston * Hopkinton * part of Millis * Sherborn


Former locale

The district previously covered part of
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, circa 1872.


Representatives

* Sedgwick L. Plumer, circa 1858 * Edward J. Collins, circa 1858-1859 * Thomas Rice, Jr, circa 1859 * Theodore P. Dresser, circa 1888 * James F. Leland, circa 1920 * James Alan Hodder, circa 1951 * William I. Randall, circa 1951 *
Mary Fantasia Mary E. (Coyne) Fantasia (October 1, 1919 – March 5, 2020) was an American politician from the state of Massachusetts. Political career She served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1971 to 1978, representing the 4th Middlesex ...
, circa 1975 *
Andrew Natsios Andrew S. Natsios (born September 22, 1949) is an American public servant and Republican politician originally from Massachusetts, who served in a number of positions in the administrations of Governor Paul Cellucci and President George W. Bush ...
, 1975-1987 * Barbara A. Gardner, 1987-2001 * Paul Loscocco, 2001–2009 * Carolyn Dykema, 2009-2022


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections *
List of Massachusetts General Courts The Massachusetts Legislature, legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the Massachusetts General Court, General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of ...
*
List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the United States. Legislative districts for elected representation in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are apportioned based on census informat ...
* Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
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, 9th, 10th, 11th,
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, 36th, 37th


Images

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Charles Flagg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Flagg 1918 Wilbur Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Wilbur Wood 1923 James Stewart Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Stewart 1935 Charles Olson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Olson 1935 Joseph Tuttle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Tuttle 1945 Carl Sheridan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Carl Sheridan 1945 Clarence Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Clarence Wood 1953 James Alan Hodder Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Alan Hodder 1953 William Randall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Randall 1967 Elbert Tuttle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Elbert Tuttle 1967 Robert Belmonte Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Belmonte 1975 Mary Fantasia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Mary Fantasia 1983 Andrew Natsios Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Andrew Natsios 1995 Barbara Gardner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Barbara Gardner 2005 Paul Loscocco Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Paul Loscocco


References


External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the United States Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the United States census, decennial census ...
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Government in Worcester County, Massachusetts