Massachusetts House · 1st Middlesex District
Margaret Scarsdale
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Margaret Scarsdale's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 10 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work
On the November 3 ballot
Running for Massachusetts House, 1st Middlesex District.
Also on the ballot: Christopher M. Lyons (Republican)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Margaret Scarsdale.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Margaret Scarsdale.
Bills
The bills Margaret Scarsdale sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Bills | |
|---|---|
| Sponsored | 21 |
| Passed both chambers | 1 |
| Became law | 1 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 |
Rank by bills passed: Rank 48 of 157 in the House (tied with 36 others) · 41 of 131 Democrats (tied with 27 others)
A bill's sponsor is its primary sponsor as the Legislature records it; co-sponsors aren't counted, and a bill a committee reported in a new draft counts for no one.
Bills that passed both chambers
| Bill | Result | Final action |
|---|---|---|
| H.4795 Amending the charter for the town of Groton |
Became law | Oct. 5, 2026 |
Budget projects
Massachusetts's budget acts don't name the legislator who asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Massachusetts legislators.
Contested votes where they split
2 against the Speaker; 2 against most of their party.
| Date | Bill and motion | Their vote | Speaker | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 28, 2026 | H.5500: Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the… Amendment |
Yea | Nay (split) | Nay (split) |
| Feb. 26, 2026 | H.5151: Relative to energy affordability, clean power and economic competitiveness Amendment |
Yea | Nay (split) | Nay (split) |
Every roll call
How Margaret Scarsdale voted on each of the 268 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most of their party | Speaker | Yeas–nays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.
Contact, committees and caucuses
Contact
- Official page
- malegislature.gov
- margaret.scarsdale@mahouse.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 473F, State House 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02133
617-722-2210
Committees
- Aging and Independence
- Environment and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
- Ways and Means
- Ways and Means
Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Massachusetts Legislature, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.
Source: the Massachusetts Legislature's roll-call records, Feb. 6, 2025 to July 31, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections