| United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 19, 2010 | ||||
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| Nominee | Scott Brown | Martha Coakley | ||
| Party | Republican | Democratic | ||
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| Nominee | Joseph L. Kennedy | |||
| Party | Independent | |||
The 2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts will take place on January 19, 2010. It will be a special election to fill the Massachusetts Class I Senate seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3, 2013.
The vacancy that prompted the special election was created by the death of Democrat Ted Kennedy on August 25, 2009; Kennedy had served as Senator since 1962, having himself initially been elected in a special election in 1962 to fill the vacancy created when his brother, John F. Kennedy, was elected President in 1960.
The seat is currently held by an appointee, Paul Kirk, a longtime Kennedy aide who is not a candidate in the election to complete the term.
A party primary election determining the winners of party nominations occurred on December 8, 2009.[1][2] The Democratic Party nominated Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts Attorney General; The Republican Party nominated Scott Brown, a Massachusetts State Senator. Joseph L. Kennedy (no relation to the Kennedy family) is running as an independent candidate.
The race has drawn national attention due to Brown's unexpected competitiveness and the fact that a Brown victory would deprive the Democratic Party of the 60th Senate vote it needs to invoke cloture on the health care reform bill.[3]
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