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District Attorney, Northern District

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

My vote power

Above average

Election date

September 1, 2026 · Primary election

How do we calculate my vote power?

What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.

Representation: Above average · 56 out of 100

This district is a good deal smaller than its state, so each vote here carries more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 1,638,365 people live here.

Show the representation math

score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(7,044,056 ÷ 1,638,365) ÷ ln(50,000) = 56.74, measured against a statewide vote in MA (grades: 66+ high, 55+ above average, 33+ average, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)

Decisiveness: Unknown

No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.

Above average representation → My vote power: Above average.

Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information.

About this office

  • Deciding which crimes get charged and which are dropped
  • Making plea deals and asking for sentences
  • Working with police on criminal cases

Affects: Anti-Corruption, Public Safety and Crime Control, Gun Control,

Candidates

David Marc Solet

Did not advance

Democratic · lost

David Solet has been a prosecutor for twenty-four years and served as Chief of the Middlesex County Cold Case Homicide Unit from 2019 to 2025, investigating hundreds of unsolved homicides. He was honored as Middlesex County Prosecutor of the Year in 2025.

Marian T. Ryan

Advanced

Democratic · Incumbent · advanced

Marian T. Ryan is an American lawyer born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was named Middlesex District Attorney by Governor Deval Patrick in April 2013.

Results

Sources: sec.state.ma.us · bostonglobe.com