Massachusetts													Total Vote	Turnout '88-'84
	Registered	Voting
1998	3,718,528	1,935,277	52.0442%
1994	3,153,378	2,232,186	70.7871%
	565,150	(296,909)	-18.7430%
Ma. Gov. 1998	Cellucci (R)	Harshbarger (D)	Dean Cook (L)	Others								Voting 1998	Governor 1998
	967,843	901,843	32,184	2,149								1,935,277	1,904,019	(31,258)
	50.8316%	47.3652%	1.6903%	0.1129%								Ind. total	34,333
Ma. Gov. 1994	Weld (R)	Roosevelt (D)	Cook (L)	Rebello (LWR)	Others								Governor 1994	(260,240)
	1,533,380	611,641	14,698	3,907	633								2,164,259
	70.8501%	28.2610%	0.6791%	0.1805%	0.0292%							Ind. total	19,238
Difference	(565,537)	290,202	17,486	(1,758)	(633)
Ma. Senate 90	Rappaport (R)	Kerry (D)	Others										Senate 90
	992,917	1,321,712	1,583										2,316,212
	42.8681%	57.0635%	0.0683%									Ind. Total	1,583
Ma. Senate 94	Romney (R)	Kennedy (D)	Dozier (Lib)	Ferguson (LWR)	All Others								Senate 94	136,267
	894,000	1,265,997	14,484	4,776	688								2,179,945
	41.0102%	58.0747%	0.6644%	0.2191%	0.0316%							Ind. total	19,948
Difference	98,917	55,715	(12,901)	(4,776)	(688)
Ma. AG 1998	Bailey (R)	Reilly (D)	Others									Voting 1998	At. Gen. 1998
	604,700	1,218,244	1,990									1,935,277	1,824,934
	33.1354%	66.7555%	0.1090%									Ind. total	1,990
Ma. AG 1994	Berry (R)	Harshbarger (D)	Others										At. Gen. 1994	(264,663)
	616,506	1,472,605	486										2,089,597
	29.5036%	70.4732%	0.0233%									Ind. total	486
Difference	(11,806)	(254,361)	1,504
Ma. SoS 1998	Dale Jenkins(R)	Galvin (D)	Atkinson (Lib)	Others									Sec of State 98
	451,556	1,252,912	86,330	866									1,791,664
	25.2032%	69.9301%	4.8184%	0.0483%								Ind. Total	87,196
Ma. SoS 1994	Chase (R)	Galvin (D)	Everett (Lib)	Others									Sec of State 94	(177,042)
	813,062	1,077,493	77,584	567									1,968,706
	41.2993%	54.7310%	3.9409%	0.0288%								Ind. total	78151
Difference	(361,506)	175,419	8,746	299
Ma. Treas. 98	Maginn (R)	O'Brien (D)	Hardwick (Lib)	Others									Treasurer 98
	626,286	1,120,757	53,299	675									1,801,017
	34.7740%	62.2291%	2.9594%	0.0375%								Ind. Total	53,974
Ma. Treas. 94	Malone (R)	O'Brien (D)	Poulin (Lib)	Tierney (Un)	All Others								Treasurer 94	(293,408)
	1,319,916	669,567	44,702	60,000	240								2,094,425
	63.0204%	31.9690%	2.1343%	2.8647%	0.0115%							Ind. total	104,942
Difference	(693,630)	451,190	8,597	(59,325)	(240)
Ma. Auditor 98	Duffy (R)	De Nucci (D)	Howell (Lib)	Others									Auditor 98
	531,363	1,154,829	102,198	608									1,788,998
	29.7017%	64.5517%	5.7126%	0.0340%								Ind. Total	102,806
Ma. Auditor 94	Clark (R)	De Nucci (D)	Weil (Lib)	All Others									Auditor 94	(199,471)
	503,057	1,432,293	52,698	421									1,988,469
	25.2987%	72.0299%	2.6502%	0.0212%								Ind. total	53,119
Difference	28,306	(277,464)	49,500	187
Ma. House 1-98	Morgan (R)	Olver (D)	All Others								Race Total
	48,055	121,863	58								169,976
	28.2716%	71.6942%	0.0341%
Ma. House 1-94	No Republican	Olver (D)	All Others									18,958
	0	150,047	971							151,018
	0.0000%	99.3570%	0.6430%
	48,055	(28,184)	(913)
Ma. House 2-98	No Republican	Neal (D)	Others								Race Total
	0	130,550	1,383								131,933
	0.0000%	98.9517%	1.0483%
Ma. House 2-94	Briare (R)	Neal (D)	Ross (NLP)	All Others								(68,190)
	72,732	117,178	10,167	46						200,123
	36.3436%	58.5530%	5.0804%	0.0230%
	(72,732)	13,372	(8,784)	(46)
Ma. House 3-98	Amorello (R)	McGovern (D)	Phillies (Lib)	All Others							Race Total
	79,174	108,613	2,887	204							190,674
	41.5232%	56.9627%	1.5141%	0.1070%
Ma. House 3-94	Blute (R)	O'Sullivan (D)	Friedgen (NLP)	All Others								(21,361)
	115,810	93,689	2,375	161						212,035
	54.6183%	44.1856%	1.1201%	0.0759%
	(36,636)	14,924	512	43
Ma. House 4-98	No Republican	Frank (D)	All Others								Race Total
	0	148,340	2,380								150,720
	0.0000%	98.4209%	1.5791%
Ma. House 4-94	No Republican	Frank (D)	All Others	Others								(19,075)
	0	168,942	853	0						169,795
	0.0000%	99.4976%	0.5024%	8.65377625093707E-45
	0	(20,602)	1,527	(0)
Ma. House 5-98	Coleman (R)	Meehan (D)	Others								Race Total
	52,725	127,418	87								180,230
	29.2543%	70.6974%	0.0483%
Ma. House 5-94	Coleman (R)	Meehan (D)	All Others									(21,294)
	60,734	140,725	65							201,524
	30.1374%	69.8304%	0.0323%
	(8,009)	(13,307)	22
Ma. House 6-98	Torkildsen (R)	Tierney (D)	Fritz (I)	All Others							Race Total
	90,986	117,132	6,544	44							214,706
	42.3770%	54.5546%	3.0479%	0.0205%
Ma. House 6-94	Torkildsen (R)	Tierney (D)	Gatchell (I)	All Others								(24,738)
	120,952	113,481	4,960	51						239,444
	50.5137%	47.3935%	2.0715%	0.0213%
	(29,966)	3,651	1,584	(7)
Ma. House 7-98	Long (R)	Markey (D)	All Others								Race Total
	56,977	137,178	150								194,305
	29.3235%	70.5993%	0.0772%
Ma. House 7-94	Bailey (R)	Markey (D)	All Others									(32,683)
	80,674	146,246	68							226,988
	35.5411%	64.4290%	0.0300%
	(23,697)	(9,068)	82
Ma. House 8-98	Hyde (R)	Capuano (D)	Morell (SW)	Schinella (U)	All Others						Race Total
	14,125	99,603	4,854	3,129	176						121,887
	11.5886%	81.7175%	3.9824%	2.5671%	0.1444%
Ma. House 8-94	No Republican	Kennedy (D)	All Others									7,464
	0	113,224	1,199							114,423
	0.0000%	98.9521%	1.0479%
	14,125	(13,621)	3,655
Ma. House 9-98	No Republican	Moakley (D)	All Others								Race Total
	0	150,667	888	0							151,555
	0.0000%	99.4141%	0.5859%	0.0000%
Ma. House 9-94	Murphy (R)	Moakley (D)	All Others	Others								(58,143)
	63,369	146,287	42	0						209,698
	30.2192%	69.7608%	0.0200%	0.0000%
	(63,369)	4,380	846	0
Ma. House 10-98	Bleicken (R)	Delahunt (D)	Others								Race Total
	70,466	164,917	180								235,563
	29.9139%	70.0097%	0.0764%
Ma. House 10-94	Hameon (R)	Studds (D)	All Others	Others								(15,746)
	78,487	172,753	69	0						251,309
	31.2313%	68.7413%	0.0275%	0.0000%
	(8,021)	(7,836)	111	(0)
Massachusetts Total
1990	412,508	1,306,281	19,411	3,377	176	0
1994	592,758	1,362,572	20,769	258	0	0				House 94			House 98
	(180,250)	(56,291)	(1,358)	3,119	176	0				1,976,357			1,741,753	(234,604)
Mass. House	Republicans	Democrats	Unopposed Reps.	Unopposed Dems.	Total Unopposed
1998	0	10	0	3	3	30.0000%
1994	2	8	0	3	3	30.0000%
	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0000%
Questions								Yes		No
Mass. Q.4	Change electric utility industry.							1,251,540	71.0558%	509,807			1,761,347	0.25
Mass. Q.1	Prohibit legislators from changing their base pay, link to median income.							1,170,031	68.4725%	538,729			1,708,760	0.5
Mass. Q.3	Reduce state income tax on interest and dividends from 12% to 5.95%.							1,395,599	81.8526%	309,416			1,705,015	0.75
Mass. Q.2	New public campaign finance law. Limits + pulbic funding.							1,129,934	66.3726%	572,476			1,702,410	1
Massachusetts	No. 1 issue in 1994, allow Sunday store openings, voluntary and 1.5 pay.							1,100,981	52.6525%	990,051			2,091,032
Mass. Senate	Republicans	Democrats	Unopposed Reps.	Unopposed Dems.	Total Unopposed
1998	7	33	5	21	26	65.0000%
1994	10	30	6	14	20	48.7805%
	-3	3	-1	7	6	16.2195%
Mass. House	Republicans	Democrats	Unopposed Reps.	Unopposed Dems.	Total Unopposed
1998	28	131	16	97	113	71.2500%	[1 unenrolled/unopposed]
1994	34	125	13	75	89	56.2500%	[1 unenrolled/unopposed]
	-6	6	3	22	24	15.0000%

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