Stephen F. Lynch
Democrat · MA-8 · U.S. House
MA-8 — U.S. House
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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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 24.9 years
- First took office
- 2001 (13 terms)
- Seniority
- 36 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Brockton, MA · 508-586-5555
- Quincy, MA · 617-657-6305
- Boston, MA · 617-428-2000
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
- Assets
- $816k – $1.8M
- Liabilities
- $260k – $515k
- Net worth
- $301k – $1.5M
- Since 2019
- −$115k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Stephen F. Lynch (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch defeats a younger challenger in Massachusetts primary - NBC News
Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch defeats a younger challenger in Massachusetts primaryNBC News Tough primary season for incumbents reaches grand finale in Massachusettsthehill.com Stephen Lynch wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Massachusetts' 8th Cong…
Slashdot.org · September 2, 2026 
Last House Democrat who voted against the ACA survives primary scareRep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., held off a well-funded primary challenger on Tuesday, extending a House career that began in 2001 and keeping in Congress the only remaining Democrat who voted against the Affordable Care Act. Lynch defeated challenger Patrick Roa…
Biztoc.com · September 2, 2026
Progressive push hits wall against conservative Democrat in deep-blue districtStephen Lynch defeated progressive challenger Patrick Roath in the Massachusetts 8th Congressional District Democratic primary despite clashes over ICE.
Fox News · September 2, 2026
Stephen Lynch Defeats a Younger Challenger“Rep. Stephen Lynch has defeated a younger, more progressive primary challenger, in the highest-profile test remaining for House incumbents after a turbulent primary season,” NBC News reports. “The 71-year-old incumbent won renomination over Patrick Roath, a …
Politicalwire.com · September 2, 2026
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