19-Year-Old Wins Seat in Massachusetts House
The 19-year-old Democrat will be among the youngest members of the Massachusetts House after a Democratic pickup that cut deeper into the GOP caucus.
- Democrat Daniel Darris-O'Connor unseated 16-year Republican incumbent Representative Marc Lombardo in the 22nd Middlesex District, securing a seat in the Massachusetts House.
- Previously elected to the Billerica Select Board at 18, Darris-O'Connor replaces Lombardo, who has represented the district since the new representative was only 4 years old.
- Unofficial town results show Darris-O'Connor received 8,968 votes to Lombardo's 8,530, a narrow margin of 438 votes that determined control of the seat.
- Republicans faced a difficult election cycle, according to state GOP chair Amy Carnevale, as the party's 25-member caucus will shrink by three seats in the Massachusetts Legislature.
- Sworn in this January at age 19, the incoming legislator becomes one of the youngest members in state history while continuing his degree at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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