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]
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Massachusetts's 5th congressional district | |||||||||||||||||
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Municipality results Clark: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% >90% Addivinola: 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||
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Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Will Brownsberger |
Katherine Clark |
Peter Koutoujian |
Martin Long |
Paul Maisano |
Carl Sciortino |
Karen Spilka |
Undecided |
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Gerstein Bocian Agne* Archived 2013-09-30 at the Wayback Machine | September 23–25, 2013 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 12% | 27% | 16% | — | — | 15% | 18% | 12% |
GreenbergQuinlanRosner^ | September 22–24, 2013 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 11% | 19% | 15% | — | — | 11% | 18% | 26% |
Emerson College | September 13–17, 2013 | 310 | ± 4% | 11.3% | 23.9% | 19% | 1.3% | 1% | 5.2% | 15.5% | 22.6% |
GreenbergQuinlanRosner^ | July 18–23, 2013 | 405 | ± 4.9% | 11% | 15% | 12% | — | — | 4% | 14% | 43% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Katherine Clark | 21,959 | 31.5 | |
Democratic | Peter Koutoujian | 15,290 | 21.9 | |
Democratic | Carl Sciortino | 11,185 | 16.0 | |
Democratic | Will Brownsberger | 10,142 | 14.6 | |
Democratic | Karen Spilka | 9,057 | 13.0 | |
Democratic | Paul Masiano | 1,498 | 2.2 | |
Democratic | Martin Long | 394 | 0.6 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Frank Addivinola |
Mike Stopa |
Tom Tierney |
Undecided |
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Emerson College | September 13–17, 2013 | 107 | ± 9% | 13.1% | 6.5% | 24.3% | 56.1% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Addivinola | 4,759 | 48.5 | |
Republican | Mike Stopa | 2,477 | 25.3 | |
Republican | Tom Tierney | 2,456 | 25.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Katherine Clark | 40,303 | 65.8 | |
Republican | Frank Addivinola | 19,328 | 31.5 | |
Independent | James Aulenti | 996 | 1.6 | |
Independent | James Hall | 452 | 0.7 | |
Write-in | 217 | 0.4 | ||
Total votes | 61,380 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |