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U.S. House · MA-02 · Democratic candidate · 2026

Jim McGovern

Democratic candidate for Massachusetts's 2nd Congressional District

Worcester congressman focused on ending hunger, affordable health care, public education, worker pay and reducing corporate influence in elections.

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DistrictMA-02
OfficeCongress
ElectionNov. 3, 2026

Policy priorities

Where Jim stands.

Official position

Expand healthy school breakfasts

  • Supports wider access to healthy school breakfasts and nutrition assistance so students can learn without hunger

Official position

Increase early learning support

  • Supports robust Head Start funding, school modernization and Pell Grants that help families afford college

Official position

Guarantee universal health coverage

  • Supports Medicare for All, negotiated prescription prices and federal protections for access to reproductive care

Official position

Raise the minimum wage

  • Supports increasing the federal wage floor and ending lower wage standards for tipped workers and workers with disabilities

Official position

Overturn corporate election spending

  • Supports a constitutional amendment allowing federal and state governments to regulate spending in elections

Official position

Require checks on gun transfers

  • Supports background checks for all gun sales and most transfers, alongside a federal assault-weapons ban

Record and background

Record & experience.

  1. 2022

    Accomplishment

    Helped secure national hunger conference

    Secured $2.5 million in funding and helped organize the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.

  2. Since 1997

    Experience

    U.S. representative

    Represents central and western Massachusetts in Congress.

  • Accomplishment

    Helped create school meal program

    Authored legislation creating the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program for children in low-income countries.

  • Experience

    Joe Moakley aide

    Worked for Congressman Joe Moakley for more than a decade.

  • Experience

    Senate office intern

    Interned in Senator George McGovern’s office while attending American University.

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