Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress
Massachusetts's 8th district
Massachusetts's 8th district has 785,145 residents on 293 mi² of land. It is represented by Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $1B in FY2026.
- Residents
- 785,145
- Land area
- 293 mi²
- Counties
- 4
- Representative
- Stephen F. Lynch
Members for this district
Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.
Senators
The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.
Elizabeth WarrenD-MA
Edward J. MarkeyD-MA
Counties
Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).
- Norfolk County49% of the district · 53% of the county
- Plymouth County25% of the district · 36% of the county
- Suffolk County23% of the district · 23% of the county
- Bristol County3.2% of the district · 4.3% of the county
Federal contracts
Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $1B
- Per resident
- $1,283
- Rank in Massachusetts
- 5 of 9
- Contract actions
- 57.3K
- New awards: 53.1K
By fiscal year
- 570.8MFY2017
- 635.8MFY2018
- 665.6MFY2019
- 717.1MFY2020
- 918.6MFY2021
- 1.2BFY2022
- 1.8BFY2023
- 1.9BFY2024
- 1.7BFY2025
- 1BFY2026
Top buyers
- Defense Logistics Agency$245.7M24%Department of Defense
- Department of Veterans Affairs$226.3M22%
- Department of the Navy$128.9M13%Department of Defense
- Department of the Air Force$74.1M7.4%Department of Defense
- Office of Procurement Operations$38.4M3.8%Department of Homeland Security
- Department of the Army$34.1M3.4%Department of Defense
- Food and Drug Administration$34M3.4%Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Health and Human Services
Top recipients
- NOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS, LLC$264.4M26%29,207 awards
- SUFFOLK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.$76.4M7.6%2 awards
- GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, INC.$55.3M5.5%22 awards
- ULTRA ELECTRONICS OCEAN SYSTEMS INC.$44.3M4.4%22 awards
- BIRD-JOHNSON PROPELLER COMPANY, LLC$40.4M4.0%32 awards
- HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE, INC.$33.7M3.3%3 awards
- GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC.$28.4M2.8%3 awards
- AMERICAN EAGLE PROTECTIVE SERVICES CORP$28.2M2.8%1 award
- FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC.$21.7M2.2%1 award
- GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, INC.$18.9M1.9%4 awards
Other boundaries
District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
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