Your Voice in Government
Legislators
Who Represents Winchester
Winchester is a town whose map splits twice on Beacon Hill. The town is divided between two state House districts and two state Senate districts, so the legislators who speak for your street depend on where in town you live. In Washington it is simpler: all of Winchester sits in one congressional district, and the Commonwealth’s two U.S. senators represent the whole town.
State Senators
Two senators divide the town. Depending on your precinct, your senator is Patricia D. Jehlen of the Second Middlesex District or Jason M. Lewis of the Fifth Middlesex District, both Democrats. Jehlen authored the state’s 2016 equal pay law across more than three decades of work on elder care and workers’ rights. Lewis chairs the Senate’s education committee and led passage of the 2019 Student Opportunity Act, the school funding law that reshaped how much state money districts receive.
State Representatives
The House map splits the town the same way. Michelle L. Ciccolo carries the 15th Middlesex District and Michael S. Day the 31st Middlesex, both Democrats. Ciccolo, a longtime municipal planner, co-founded the Legislature’s Zero Waste Caucus. Day has chaired the Judiciary Committee in the House since 2021 and was the lead architect of the state’s 2024 firearm safety law.
In Washington
All of Winchester sits in the 5th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Representative Katherine M. Clark, a Democrat serving since 2013 who holds the highest-ranking leadership post of any woman in Congress as House Minority Whip. Massachusetts is represented in the U.S. Senate by Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator, and Edward J. Markey, the junior senator, both Democrats.
Find Your Exact Legislator
Because Winchester is split at the State House, look up your own address to find your senator and representative:
Sources
Massachusetts Legislature (malegislature.gov). Verified August 2026.
Open States (Plural). Verified August 2026.
What this seat decides
The state and federal seats
Your State Representative and your State Senator. State law: the driving age, the minimum wage, the bottle deposit, and Chapter 70, the formula that decides how much state money your schools get. They also carry a home rule petition to the State House when your town votes for something state law does not yet allow it to do.
Your member of Congress and your two US Senators. Federal law and federal money, and help with a federal agency like Social Security, the VA, or immigration when someone in your family needs it. They also nominate candidates to the US service academies.
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