Editing Cohasset, Massachusetts (section)

==Government==
[[File:Cohasset MA Town Hall.jpg|thumb|Cohasset Town Hall]]
On the national level, Cohasset is a part of [[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district]], and is currently represented by [[Bill Keating (politician)|Bill Keating]]. The senior (Class II) Senator, is [[Elizabeth Warren]]. The (Class I) member of the [[United States Senate]] is [[Edward Markey]].

On the state level, Cohasset is represented in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] by Joan Meschino as a part of the Third Plymouth district, which includes Hingham, Hull and Scituate. The town is represented in the [[Massachusetts Senate]] by Patrick O'Connor as a part of the [[Massachusetts Senate's Plymouth and Norfolk district|Plymouth and Norfolk district]], which includes the towns of Duxbury, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate and Weymouth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mass.gov/legis/citytown.htm |title=Index of Legislative Representation by City and Town, from |publisher=Mass.gov |access-date=February 25, 2014 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115141/http://www.mass.gov/legis/citytown.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The town is patrolled on a secondary basis by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the [[Massachusetts State Police]].<ref>[http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Law+Enforcement+%26+Criminal+Justice&L2=Law+Enforcement&L3=State+Police+Troops&L4=Troop+D&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=msp_divisions_field_services_troops_troop_d_msp_field_troop_d_station_d1&csid=Eeops Station D-1, SP Norwell]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127055400/http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Law+Enforcement+&+Criminal+Justice&L2=Law+Enforcement&L3=State+Police+Troops&L4=Troop+D&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=msp_divisions_field_services_troops_troop_d_msp_field_troop_d_station_d1&csid=Eeops |date=November 27, 2011 }}</ref>

Cohasset is governed on the local level by the [[open town meeting]] form of government, and is led by a town manager and a five-member [[board of selectmen]]. The current Town Manager is Christopher Senior. Selectmen are elected officials and serve three-year terms led by a chairman in a rotating one-year term. The current Board of Selectmen consists of Kevin McCarthy, Chair, Paul Schubert, Vice-Chair, and Diane Kennedy, Steve Gaumer, and Jack Keniley.  The town operates its own police and fire departments, both of which are headquartered near the town center. Emergency services are also provided by the town, with patients taken to the South Shore Hospital in [[Weymouth, Massachusetts|Weymouth]]. The town's post office is also nearby, just off of the town common. The town's [[Paul Pratt Memorial Library]] is located just west of the town center, in what was once a school adjacent to the original library.

Cohasset Schools are represented by and headed by the Cohasset School Committee. Members of the Cohasset School Committee are Jeanne Astino(Chairman), Katie Dugan(Vice-Chairman), Ellen Maher, Barbara Stefan and Amanda Zani.
 
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! colspan = 6 | Voter registration and party enrollment as of August 24, 2024<ref>{{cite web | title = Registered Voters and Party Enrollment as of August 24, 2024 | publisher = Massachusetts Elections Division | access-date = July 7, 2020 | url = https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/enrollment_count_20200212.pdf | archive-date = October 10, 2022 | archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/enrollment_count_20200212.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Party
! Number of voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1,246
| style="text-align:center;"| 19.63%
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 878
| style="text-align:center;"| 13.83%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| Unaffiliated
| style="text-align:center;"| 4,181
| style="text-align:center;"| 65.89%
|-
| {{party color cell|Libertarian Party (United States)}}
| [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 16
| style="text-align:center;"| 0.02%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! style="text-align:center;"| 6,345
! style="text-align:center;"| 100%
|}