Senator in General Court
Fifth Middlesex District; Massachusetts
My vote power
High
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: High · 66 out of 100
This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 184,747 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 ÷ 184,747) ÷ ln(50,000) = 66.83, measured against a statewide vote in MA (grades: 66+ high, 33+ normal, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Decisiveness: Unknown
No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.
High representation → My vote power: High.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information and capped at "High".
About this office
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates
Democratic · declared
Carey McDonald grew up without much money, attended inner city public schools, made it through college on a scholarship and earned a master's at night school while working full time. He worked minimum wage jobs starting at age 15 and struggled with student loans.
Records: Public Infrastructure 2 for
Democratic · declared
Kate Lipper-Garabedian began her career as a seventh-grade public school teacher in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood of Atlanta. After graduating from Harvard Law School she clerked in the federal courts and later served as Chief Legal Counsel at a Massachusetts Executive Office.
Democratic · declared
Ryan J. O'Malley is a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts' open Fifth Middlesex Senate District in 2026. He has represented Ward 4 on the Malden City Council since 2016 and served as council president during part of 2025. A Malden High School and College of the Holy Cross graduate, he previously worked in corporate change management.
Records: Public Infrastructure 1 for
Sources: sec.state.ma.us23