Certified returns for every federal race in Massachusetts in 1998, as published by the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. 10 of 10 congressional races match the totals printed in the Clerk's own recapitulation.
U.S. House of Representatives
District 1
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
John W. Olver
Democrat
121,863
71.7%
Gregory L. Morgan
Republican
48,055
28.3%
Other
58
0.0%
Total
169,976
District 2
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Richard E. Neal
Democrat
130,550
99.0%
Other
1,383
1.0%
Total
131,933
District 3
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
James P. McGovern
Democrat
108,613
56.9%
Matthew J. Amorello
Republican
79,174
41.5%
George Phillies
Libertarian
2,887
1.5%
Other
204
0.1%
Total
190,878
District 4
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Barney Frank
Democrat
148,340
98.4%
Other
2,380
1.6%
Total
150,720
District 5
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Martin T. Meehan
Democrat
127,418
70.7%
David E. Coleman
Republican
52,725
29.3%
Other
87
0.0%
Total
180,230
District 6
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
John F. Tierney
Democrat
117,132
54.6%
Peter G. Torkildsen
Republican
90,986
42.4%
Randal C. Fritz
Independent
6,544
3.0%
Other
44
0.0%
Total
214,706
District 7
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Edward J. Markey
Democrat
137,178
70.6%
Patricia H. Long
Republican
56,977
29.3%
Other
150
0.1%
Total
194,305
District 8
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Michael E. Capuano
Democrat
99,603
81.7%
Philip Hyde III
Republican
14,125
11.6%
Andrea Morell
Socialist Workers
4,854
4.0%
Anthony A. Schinella
Unenrolled
3,129
2.6%
Other
176
0.1%
Total
121,887
District 9
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
John Joseph Moakley
Democrat
150,667
99.4%
Other
888
0.6%
Total
151,555
District 10
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
William D. Delahunt
Democrat
164,917
70.0%
Eric V. Bleicken
Republican
70,466
29.9%
Other
180
0.1%
Total
235,563
Source
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election, 1998 — Official source · Archived copy SHA-256 4424a7d1a5954439ffb09f1de5f11a45fe06c6cc7cd2885c7e7beb0ee4ff4b58
Shares are of all votes listed for the race, including write-ins and, where a state reports them, blank and void ballots.