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Stephen F. Lynch

DemocratStephen F. Lynch

U.S. Representative · Massachusetts

Massachusetts's 8th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

0 tracked promises

Massachusetts · Massachusetts's 8th district

Massachusetts's 8th district

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Running against

How they won their seat

Stephen F. Lynch won the 2024 U.S. House election in Massachusetts (District 8) with 66.7% of the vote (265,432 votes).

66.7%
Win share
265,432
Votes for winner
397,767
Total cast
  • Stephen F. Lynch · Democrat66.7%
  • Robert G. Burke · Republican27.8%
  • Blanks · Na5.3%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Stephen F. Lynch has sponsored bills related to consumer protection, financial services, and military-related issues. He has sponsored multiple bills related to consumer financial protection, such as the 'Vote by Mail Protection Act of 2026' and the 'Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025', as well as legislation addressing air traffic noise and pollution. His committee memberships include oversight and financial services committees. Focus areas (from the record): Consumer Protection · Financial Services · Military Affairs · Government Oversight · Environmental Issues Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is insufficient evidence to assess alignment with declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Lynch's motives or intentions behind his legislative actions; There is no information on the effectiveness or impact of the bills he has sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the understanding of his priorities and commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Stephen F. Lynch has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2016. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Stephen F. Lynch has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Bills sponsored
5

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

5bills sponsored
5 awaiting status
01345Bills2016: 5 awaiting status52016

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$730K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $730K2026: spent $642K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $38K (5%)Large individual (itemized): $212K (30%)30%PAC / committee: $464K (65%)65%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$38K5%
  • Large individual (itemized)$212K30%
  • PAC / committee$464K65%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

224 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $542,308, spent $447,477, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 224 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
265
Nay
319
Present
0
Not voting
25

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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