Mass State primaries to watch for today

BOSTON — Voters in Massachusetts will get the chance to vote for state legislators Thursday, Sept. 8.

There's a lack of competition for legislative and Congressional seats. Of the legislators running for election, 126 was unopposed. Seventeen races for the State House will be decided Thursday.

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District 24

Rep. Walter Timility will face Nora Harrington, and whoever comes out on top will face independent Jonathan Lott in November.

Berkshire District

Three Democrats, Andrea Harrington, Adam Hinds and Rinaldo Del Gallo, will face off. The winner will take on Republican Christine Canning in the general election.

Cape and Islands District

There's a primary for each major party for this seat. For Republicans, Anthony Schiavi against Jim Crocker, and on the Democrat side, Julian Cyr against Sheila Lyons. Rep. Brian Mannal will also be on the ballot, but he has withdrawn.

2nd Middlesex

Sen. Patricia Jehlen faces challenger Cambridge City Councilor Leland Cheung.

1st Essex District

Sen. Kathleen O'Connor-Ives faces Adele Martino.

2nd Suffolk District

Roy Owens tries to unseat Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz.

Twenty-two senators have no challengers in either the primary or general elections. Democrats hold a 34-6 advantage in the Senate.

7th Norfolk District

Seven Democrats are on the ballot: : Jason Adams, James Burgess, William Driscoll, Tony Farrington, Kerby Roberson, Denise Swenson and Michael Zullas.

1st Franklin District

With Rep. Ellen Story not running for re-election, Viraphanh Douangmany Cage, Solomon Israel Goldstein-Rose, Sarah LaCour, Bonnie MacCracken, Eric Nakajima and Lawrence O'Brien are competing.

11th Hampden District

Four people are running for the seat, Benjamin Swan Jr., Bud Williams, Ken Barnett and Larry Lawson.

 7th Suffolk District

Monica Cannon, Marydith Tuitt and Chynah Tyler are facing off to fill Rep. Gloria Fox's seat.

The races for six other open seats will be decided Nov. 8

Barnstable Dukes Nantucket District

Either Ewell Hopkins, Michael Heylin, Jessica Lambert, Dylan Fernandes or Timothy Soverino will face Independents Tobias Glidden and Jacob Ferry.

A total of 118 House races will be decided in September, but 104 of them include unopposed incumbents.

The primary was supposed to be Tuesday, Sept. 20, but Secretary of State William Galvin said that the date was too late to comply with federal law that requires him to make final general election ballot available to military and overseas voters 45 days before Nov. 8.

Due to the Labor Day holiday, Thursday, Sept. 8 was chosen.

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