Scott Brown Won 10th Congressional District With 61% of the Vote

Scott Brown's election might mean the rise of a successful Republican candidate in MA 10th congressional. I spent a chunk of the afternoon analyzing the town by town results from the MA Senate election. The most surprising thing I found was by just how much the Cape went for Scott Brown.

Scott Brown, you'll remember, opposed the Cape Wind program, a project that whatever its environmental merits would have deleteriously affected already depressed property values on the Cape.

The lean Democratic leaning district is MA 10th Congressional District. It is currently represented by Bill Delahunt, but Delahunt is getting up there in his years. If he retires in the coming years, expect the unexpected: a Republican pickup of this congressional seat.

My analysis of the district's town votes are as follows:

	Turnout	Scott Brown	Martha Coakley	Joseph Kennedy
Abington	60%	4158	2088	61
Barnstable	65%	12331	7543	179
Bourne	61%	5134	2807	76
Brewster	64%	2730	2416	46
Carver	56%	3222	1611	50
Chatham	65%	2179	1488	27
Cohasset	70%	2,401	1,419	17
Dennis	65%	4358	3131	76
Duxbury	70%	4,982	2,674	44
Eastham	71%	1,473	1,540	25
Falmouth	59%	8,041	7,133	128
Hanover	71%	4,731	1,895	35
Hanson	65%	3,067	1,254	35
Harwich	62%	3,597	2,635	51
Hingham	72%	6,800	4,416	53
Hull	58%	2,409	2,037	44
Kingston	63%	3,576	1,701	31
Marshfield	66%	7,677	3,895	91
Mashpee	61%	3,835	2,313	60
Norwell	70%	3,485	1,680	32
Orleans	68%	1,961	1,705	26
Pembroke	61%	5,134	2,424	41
Plymouth	60%	14,276	7,989	176
Plympton	70%	951	444	14
Provincetown	55%	238	1,344	16
Quincy	47%	15,607	13,330	325
Rockland	56%	4,253	2,231	89
Sandwich	65%	6,625	3,416	61
Scituate	69%	5,584	3,474	61
Truro	64%	396	673	7
Wellfleet	64%	596	1,075	25
Weymouth	69%	15,093	8,104	235
Yarmouth	60%	6,496	4,390	98
		Total
	Average turnout	167396	106275	2335
	64%	0.611668756	0.388331244	0.008532143