Ed Markey
DemocraticIncumbent
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2013; U.S. Representative from 1976 to 2013
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U.S. Senate · Nov 3, 2026
Incumbent: Ed Markey, running for re-election.
Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in the September 1 Democratic primary; John Deaton was unopposed for the Republican nomination.
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2013; U.S. Representative from 1976 to 2013
Attorney; Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 2024
Engineer and entrepreneur; independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 2018
Community organizer from Boston; Party for Socialism and Liberation member
What each candidate says they support or would do, on the issues they campaign on. Summaries use the same neutral words for everyone and link to the candidate’s own words.
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DemocraticEd Markey
Supports a national Medicare for All program and federal support for state universal health care systems, adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare, and guaranteed paid sick leave.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Says he would work to break up vertically integrated insurers and what he calls the PBM monopoly. Supports lower prescription drug costs, expanded telehealth, and full transparency in drug pricing.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports shifting the health system from treating illness toward preventive and integrative medicine, and says he would protect medical freedom.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports guaranteed free health care.
DemocraticEd Markey
Calls for abolishing ICE. Supports banning facial recognition by immigration enforcement, national standards for immigration detention, expanding refugee admissions, protecting Temporary Protected Status, and a path to legal residency for Dreamers.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Says he would work to secure the border, end catch and release and reform the asylum process, and supports a bipartisan border bill. Opposes both blanket amnesty and mass deportation; supports an earned path to legal status and citizenship for DACA recipients.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports abolishing ICE and a path to citizenship for every person living in the United States.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports funding for building and preserving affordable homes, expanded rental assistance, help for first-generation homebuyers, and programs that prevent evictions and homelessness.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Supports permitting reform that sets deadlines for local and state approvals and exploring real estate tokenization. Opposes green-energy mandates that he says add to builders' costs.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports capping rent at 10% of income.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports guaranteeing a federal right to contraception (as lead sponsor of the Right to Contraception Act) and protecting abortion rights nationwide (as a cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act).
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Supports writing the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law and disagrees with the Dobbs decision. Says he would vote with Democrats to stop a federal abortion ban.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports ending fossil fuel subsidies, making fossil fuel companies pay for climate damage, low-cost renewable energy projects, opposing offshore oil drilling and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and expanding transit and passenger rail.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports taking over and decommissioning fossil fuel infrastructure, building a renewable energy grid in its place, and a national workforce mobilization similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports the Equality Act and federal protection of LGBTQ+ people from discrimination, leads a resolution for a Transgender Bill of Rights, and supports access to gender-affirming care and transgender military service.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports reinstating and expanding affirmative action, reparations to Black Americans in cash payments and community investment, ending mass incarceration, voting rights for incarcerated people, and the right to gender-affirming care.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports universal early learning programs that cap child care costs, stable federal funding for public schools, tuition-free community college, more financial aid, and reducing student debt.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports teaching science, math, history, trades and systems thinking.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Supports a constitutional amendment limiting service to three House terms and two Senate terms, banning stock, crypto and commodities trading by members of Congress, and barring former members from lobbying.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports term limits, banning insider trading by members of Congress, and removing lobbyists and billionaires from influence over government.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Supports a federal AI standard with a three-year safe harbor and disclosure duties for large AI operators, and requiring a court order or signed judicial warrant to search historical records from AI-powered surveillance systems such as Flock, except in documented emergencies.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports a Digital Bill of Rights to protect speech from censorship and manipulation online.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports ending large overseas wars and bringing troops home, limiting foreign lobbying, and ending U.S. aid to Israel and other countries.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports cutting the military budget by 90%, closing U.S. military bases abroad, ending U.S. aid to Israel immediately, and lifting U.S. sanctions on countries including Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
DemocraticEd Markey
Supports banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, stronger background check and safe storage requirements, banning online distribution of 3D-printed gun blueprints, and repealing liability protections for gun makers and sellers.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Opposes the Green New Deal. Supports solar, wind, geothermal and hydro power alongside nuclear power, including small modular reactors, long-term investment in fusion, and amending the Jones Act to ease LNG shipping.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
Opposes taxing Social Security benefits. Supports raising or removing the cap on wages subject to the payroll tax and gradually raising the retirement age for future workers only.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports cutting taxes for families and small businesses and criticizes the Federal Reserve, which he blames for inflation.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports banning harmful substances in food and agriculture and enforcing labeling requirements.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
Supports paper ballots, hand counting, same-day voting and voter ID.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
No published position found.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports converting the 100 largest corporations to public property and a 100% tax on assets above $10 million to fund housing, health care, child care, education and retirement.
DemocraticEd Markey
No published position found.
RepublicanJohn Deaton
No published position found.
IndependentShiva Ayyadurai
No published position found.
Socialism and LiberationJoe Tache
Supports guaranteed well-paid union jobs and job training for all, and regulation of the use of AI.