Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district
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Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/sen11idx.htm |title=Massachusetts Senatorial Districts |access-date= April 18, 2020 |work=Sec.state.ma.us }} It covers 29.3% of Hampden County and 13.8% of Hampshire County population in 2010.{{Citation |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1848730/-How-do-counties-House-districts-and-legislative-districts-all-overlap-These-new-tools-show-you|author=David Jarman|work= How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap? |publisher=Daily Kos |date=July 30, 2019 |title=Counties ↔ legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= Counties to State Senate Districts }}{{citation |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2011/Chapter152 |access-date= April 18, 2020 |work= Session Laws: Acts (2011) |title=An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts }} Democrat John Velis has represented the district since May 2020.{{cite web |access-date= April 18, 2020 |work= Sec.state.ma.us |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1970/year_to:2020/office_id:9/district_id:58705 |title= State Senate elections: 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district }}{{citation |title=Here Are The Contested Legislative Races In Massachusetts |date=October 29, 2020 |author=Steve Brown |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/10/29/legislative-races-election-massachusetts-state-house |work=Wbur.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101150413/https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/10/29/legislative-races-election-massachusetts-state-house |archive-date= November 1, 2020 }}
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
- Agawam
- part of Chicopee
- Easthampton
- Granville
- Holyoke
- Montgomery
- Russell
- Southampton
- Southwick
- Tolland
- Westfield
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 4th Berkshire, 3rd Hampden, 4th Hampden, 5th Hampden, 8th Hampden, 1st Hampshire, and 2nd Hampshire districts.{{Citation |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1848730/-How-do-counties-House-districts-and-legislative-districts-all-overlap-These-new-tools-show-you|author=David Jarman|work= How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap? |publisher=Daily Kos |date=July 30, 2019 |title= Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= State Senate Districts to State House Districts }}
Senators
- Alan D. Sisitsky
- Linda Melconian, circa 1985 {{cite book |year= 1985 |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19851986bost/page/70/mode/2up |title= Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts }}
- Michael R. Knapik, circa 2002 {{cite web |access-date= April 18, 2020 |work= Sec.state.ma.us |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:2002/year_to:2002/office_id:9 |title= State Senate elections: 2002 }}
- Donald F. Humason, Jr., November 20, 2013 – January 5, 2020
- John Velis, May 28, 2020 – present
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1975 Alan Sisitsky senator Massachusetts.jpg|Alan Sisitsky
1991 Linda Melconian senator Massachusetts.jpg|Linda Melconian
Michael Knapik 2010.jpg|Michael Knapik
Donald Humason Jr official portrait.jpg|Donald Humason
See also
- List of Massachusetts Senate elections
- Other Hampden County districts of the Massachusett Senate: Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden; Hampden; 1st Hampden and Hampshire
- Other Hampshire County districts of the Massachusett Senate: Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden; 1st Hampden and Hampshire; Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester
- Hampden County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
- Hampshire County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
References
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External links
- [https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_State_Senate Ballotpedia]
- {{cite web |url= https://censusreporter.org/profiles/61000US25005-second-hampden-hampshire-district-ma/ |title= Second Hampden & Hampshire District, MA |work= Censusreporter.org }} (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- {{citation |url= http://donhumason.org/district/ |title= 2nd Hampden and Hampshire District |work= Donhumason.org |archive-date= October 31, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181031001009/http://donhumason.org/district/ }}
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Category:Government of Hampden County, Massachusetts