Federal race · 2022

Massachusetts U.S. House, District 2, 2022

General election: November 8, 2022

Money raised

  1. James P. McGovern (D)$1.1M raised · $367K on hand
  2. Jeff Sossa-Paquette (R)$141K raised · $4K on hand

Raised Cash on hand · bars are blue for Democrats, red for Republicans, gray for others

Candidates

CandidateStatusRaisedSpentCash on handThrough
James P. McGovern (D)Won the general election (66.2%)$1,116,203.86$1,013,771.59$367,378.702022-12-31
Jeff Sossa-Paquette (R)Lost the general election (33.7%)$140,906.35$136,673.90$4,232.452022-12-31

Totals from the FEC candidate summary file, retrieved October 23, 2026. A dated snapshot, not live reporting; each candidate’s FEC page is the official source.

Total spent on this race

$1,156,041.31 = candidates’ own spending $1,149,884.49 + outside spending $6,156.82

CandidateOutside spending forAgainstElectioneering and member messages
James P. McGovern$18.68$0.00$6,138.14

Candidates’ own spending is their committees’ disbursements less transfers to other committees, contributions to others, loan repayments and refunds (FEC committee summary). Outside spending is independent expenditures, electioneering communications and company or union member communications for or against these candidates (FEC totals by candidate from regular reports, retrieved October 24, 2026; the latest 24- and 48-hour notices are not included yet). Party coordinated spending is not split by race and is not included. All the money

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportSolid DNovember 23, 2021
  • Inside ElectionsSolid DApril 14, 2022
  • Sabato's Crystal BallSafe DDecember 2, 2021
  • PoliticoSolid DApril 5, 2022
  • RCPSafe DJune 9, 2022
  • Fox NewsSolid DJuly 11, 2022
  • DDHQSolid DJuly 20, 2022
  • 538Solid DJune 30, 2022
  • The EconomistSafe DSeptember 28, 2022

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts (retrieved October 23, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Results

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Jim McGovernDemocratic Party180,63966.2%
Jeffrey Sossa-PaquetteRepublican Party91,95633.7%

As listed on Wikipedia; official results come from the state election office.

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