Stephen F. Lynch

Democrat · MA-8 · U.S. House

Bio

Stephen Francis Lynch is an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. A Democrat, he represents Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer, and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court.

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Record of service

In office: 24.8 years
First took office: 2001 (13 terms)
Seniority: 36 of 437 by time served
Age: 71

District offices

Brockton, MA · 508-586-5555
Quincy, MA · 617-657-6305
Boston, MA · 617-428-2000

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$1.0M

2020

$1.0M

2021

$598k

2022

$265k

2023

$357k

2024

$301k

2025

$916k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $816k – $1.8M
Liabilities: $260k – $515k
Net worth: $301k – $1.5M
Since 2019: −$115k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 assets reported

3 Jason Terrace$500k – $1.0M

South Boston Community Health Center 403(b) ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund (VTTVX)$250k – $500k

Bank of America$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Victory Pioneer Equity Income Fund Class A (PEQIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Victory Pioneer Select Mid Cap Growth Fund Class A (PGOFX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ Dell Technologies Inc. Class V (DVMT)$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ Intel Corporation - Common Stock (INTC)$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Growth Portfolio$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ Morgan Stanley Money Market Fund$1k – $15k

IRA ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$1k – $15k

Rockland Trust$1 – $1k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.47

Healthcare

D+0.57

Immigration & Border

D+0.31

Guns

D+0.92

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.86

Crime & Policing

D+0.12

Defense & Veterans

D+0.04

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.05

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.88

Education

D+0.53

Government & Democracy

D+0.79

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Stephen F. Lynch's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

83%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

79%

Communist Party USA

78%

Libertarian Party

55%

Republican Party

37%

On the political map

Stephen F. Lynch (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Lynchsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Lynch's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.