United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 2012

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All 10 Massachusetts seats in the United States House of Representatives

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Democratic	Republican
Last election	10 seats, 100.0%	0 seats, 0.0%
Seats before	10	0
Seats won	9	0
Seat change	1
Popular vote	1,544,103	693,624
Percentage	66.04%	29.67%
Swing	8.56%	9.18%

The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 to elect the nine U.S. Representatives from the state of Massachusetts, a loss of one seat following the 2010 Census, for service in the 113th Congress from January 3, 2013 to January 3, 2015. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election. The candidate elected in each of the state's congressional districts was a member the Democratic Party.

Primary elections were held on September 6, 2012. This primary was on a Thursday, which is rare in Massachusetts, and it was moved from Tuesday, September 18, 2012 because of a conflicting religious holiday.

Democrat Richard Neal, who has represented the 2nd district since 1989, was redistricted into the 1st district. He ran for re-election.

Middle Berkshire Register of Deeds Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr., a former state senator; and Bill Shein, a writer, also sought the Democratic nomination. Neal won renomination and was unopposed in the general election.

Since 1991, Democrat John Olver, has represented the 1st district, most of which remains in the proposed new 1st district. He was to have been redistricted to the 2nd district, except that he announced his retirement two weeks before the new districts were proposed.

Democrat Jim McGovern, who was redistricted from the 3rd district, ran for re-election. McGovern easily won renomination over newcomer William Feegbeh, and was unopposed in the general election.

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