2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

4 candidates, listed alphabetically.

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Candidates

Shiva Ayyadurai

Independent

Shiva Ayyadurai is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and anti-vaccine activist. Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including a PhD in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient.

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Shiva Ayyadurai (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

John Deaton

Republican

John Deaton is an American attorney and political candidate. He was the Republican nominee in the 2024 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to incumbent Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, and became the nominee again for the 2026 United States Senate election in Massachusetts.

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John Deaton (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ed Markey

DemocraticIncumbent

Current office: U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013. Senate committee assignments: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Committee on Environment and Public Works; Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Ranking).

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Committee Assignments of the 119th Congress (United States Senate, Public domain (U.S. government work))
Senators contact information (senators_cfm.xml) (United States Senate, Public domain (U.S. government work))
congress-legislators: legislators-current.json (service dates) (@unitedstates project, CC0 1.0)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (U.S. Congress, Public domain (U.S. government work))
Ed Markey (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Joe Tache

Socialism and Liberation

Joe Tache is described in Wikipedia's coverage of this race as: organizer.

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2026 United States Senate election in Massachusetts (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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2026 United States Senate election in Massachusetts (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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