Editing Tewksbury, Massachusetts (section)

==Government==
Tewksbury, like most towns in Massachusetts, operates under a [[New England town]] form of government. Day-to-day management is led by a town manager, who reports to the town's five member board of selectmen. Every spring the town holds an [[open town meeting]] where the budget is submitted for approval by the town's citizens.

Tewksbury is located in the [[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district|6th Congressional District]] and thus represented in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] by [[Seth Moulton]] of Salem. The town is represented in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] by Senators [[Ed Markey]] of [[Malden, Massachusetts|Malden]] and [[Elizabeth Warren]] of [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]].

Tewksbury is one of the more Republican-leaning towns in the Commonwealth. With the exception of [[2020 United States presidential election in Massachusetts|2020]], Tewksbury has supported the Republican candidate for president in every election since [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/ma_president/ |work=The Boston Globe |title=Massachusetts results |date=November 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201223033/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/ma_president/ |archive-date=February 1, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Election Results {{!}} Tewksbury, MA |url=https://www.tewksbury-ma.gov/380/Election-Results |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=www.tewksbury-ma.gov}}</ref> In the 2010 [[United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010|special election]] to replace the late [[Ted Kennedy]] in the Senate, Tewksbury supported [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]] over [[Martha Coakley]] by a two-to-one margin.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html | work=The Boston Globe | title=Check out this Page on Boston.com | date=December 8, 2009}}</ref>