House · Democrat

Sean Reid

Current member · 11th Essex

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Lynn

First elected

House 2024

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines	Note
194th (2025–26)	House	11th Essex	2021 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Sean Reid are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
194th (2025–26)	No post recorded	$0	$0 (to date)

Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.

The district

11th Essex on its 2021 lines: 2 cities and towns, 46,082 residents (2020).

Lynn 93%, 42% of the town · Nahant 7%

Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.

Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 70 for all state aid and 48 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).

Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.

District money, first measure: enacted earmarks in clauses naming a place in the district, by session (district money, not the member’s)
Session	District	Dollars	In corrective clauses	Per resident per budget, rank	Without corrective clauses, rank
194th (2025–26)	11th Essex	$676,000	$0	$14.66 · 30th of 160	$14.66 · 29th of 160

District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.

The same district on the other two measures, by session (enacted; includes any corrective-clause money)
Session	District	Placed in the district	Per resident per budget, rank	Everything placed	Per resident per budget, rank
194th (2025–26)	11th Essex	$643,000	$13.95 · 39th of 160	$826,000	$17.92 · 34th of 160

Budget amendments

Sean Reid sponsored ten budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $425,000 in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

33%

3 of 9

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

64%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the nine with a known outcome, three were adopted (33%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about six (64%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Sean Reid filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2026	$25,000	“Pathways Inc. in the city of Lynn for adult education”	H4000 #624
FY2026	$25,000	“the restoration of the Calantha Sears gazebo at Bailey’s hill park in the town of Nahant”	H4000 #626

Strong matches: 2 enacted items, $50,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.

9 outcomes are inferred by matching amendment text to the House’s consolidated amendments, because the House records most amendments only as “Consolidated A–G.” Ask size is the larger of the earmark dollars and the line-item change an amendment requests; bands: no dollar amount, under $50,000, $50,000–$250,000, $250,000–$1 million, $1–5 million, $5 million or more. Leadership’s unattributed base-text and corrective-amendment money is never assigned to a member. The comparison describes outcomes; it is not a measure of merit.

Bills sponsored

Sean Reid filed 19 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; zero were enacted on their own. Only the 194th General Court, still in session, is covered, so no enacted rate is given.

Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.

Bills filed as lead sponsor, by session and outcome
Session	Chamber	Lead bills	Sent to study	Pending (session open)	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
194th (2025–26)	House	19	11	8	0%*	1%	138

Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.

Recorded votes on accountability measures

Sean Reid cast 14 yes-or-no votes on the 14 accountability roll calls in this file (four yes, ten no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
Date	Measure	Vote	Chamber result
February 25, 2025	Amendment 2.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Roll Calls	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Formal Session Notification	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 4.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): General Court Audits	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 5.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Opinion of the Justices	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 7.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Poll Notification	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Joint rules (H2026), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 128, nays 23
February 25, 2025	Amendment 18.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Time to Review Legislation	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Audit by State Auditor	No	Yeas 24, nays 127
February 25, 2025	Amendment 2.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Poll Notifications	No	Yeas 23, nays 128
February 25, 2025	House rules (H2024), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 128, nays 23
June 26, 2025	Joint rules (conference report) (S2545), rules package: on acceptance (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 147, nays 2
June 3, 2026	Engross H.5469 (public records law applied to the Legislature). Reform advocates split (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 125, nays 28

Votes marked “contested meaning” are rules-package and public-records passage votes; reform advocates were on both sides of them. Descriptions are the project’s plain summaries of each question, or the question as recorded for rules-package roll calls; the official record is on malegislature.gov. Votes are facts; no score is computed.

Campaign money in

Sean Reid’s committee reported $9,550 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2025–2026.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2025	$5,400
2026	$4,150

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Political committees and PACs	$5,250	55%
Individuals	$4,050	42%
Unions and associations	$250	3%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	94%
Retired	6%

Not counted as contributions: $23,000 in other receipts of $250 or more in the same years (candidate loans and the candidate’s own money, transfers, refunds, bank interest and aggregated small receipts).

The same committee also reported $18,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2024), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organization	Kind	Total	Contributions
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$1,000	2
LYNN FIRE DEPARTMENT	individuals, by employer	$1,000	2
SEYFARTH SHAW	individuals, by employer	$1,000	2
LOCAL 509 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INT'L UNION COMM ON POL ED MA WORKERS' POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$750	2
RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PAC	committee or PAC	$600	2
1199 SEIU MA PAC	committee or PAC	$500	1
NORTH ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS PAC	committee or PAC	$500	1
SMART TRANSPORTATION DIVISION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	committee or PAC	$500	1
LYNN FIRE DEPARTMENT CITY OF LYNN	individuals, by employer	$500	1
BOSTON CARMEN'S UNION PAC	committee or PAC	$300	1

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Reid Committee (CPF 18326). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.

Sources

Every figure traces to a public record.

Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.