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Legislators
Who Represents Sandwich
Five people speak for Sandwich above the town line, and there is no district boundary inside the town to check first. One state representative and one state senator carry the whole town in the Massachusetts Legislature, one member of Congress carries it in the U.S. House, and the Commonwealth’s two U.S. senators represent the entire state, Sandwich included. Between them they cover everything from a state road repair to a federal grant for your school. Worth noticing before you write: your representative and your senator sit in different parties, so on a Sandwich question you have two independent doors to knock on.
State Senator
Plymouth and Barnstable District · Democrat
Dylan A. Fernandes
State House: Room 519 · (617) 722-1330
Email: dylan.fernandes@masenate.gov
A state senator votes the state budget, files bills, and sits on the joint committees where most bills live or die. All of Sandwich sits inside the Plymouth and Barnstable district, which also reaches Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee, Kingston, Pembroke, Plymouth and Plympton, so there is no district line to check before you write.
State Representative
Sandwich is not split. The entire town sits in the 5th Barnstable House district, so one representative answers for every street in it.
5th Barnstable District · Republican
Steven George Xiarhos
State House: Room 542 · (617) 722-2488
Email: steven.xiarhos@mahouse.gov
A state representative files bills, votes the state budget, and can chase a state agency on a constituent’s behalf, which is often the fastest use of the office. He sits on the House Committee on Ways and Means, where the state budget is written before the full House sees it.
In Washington
All of Sandwich sits in the Ninth Congressional District, one of nine in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is represented in the U.S. Senate by Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator, and Edward J. Markey, the junior senator, both Democrats, and both of them represent you as much as any Sandwich voter.
9th Congressional District · Democrat
William R. Keating
Washington: 2372 Rayburn House Office Building · 202-225-3111
Find Your Exact Legislator
Sandwich sits whole inside one House district and one Senate district, so the names above are yours whatever your address. If you want to confirm it, or you are looking up a neighbouring town, either lookup takes about ten seconds:
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