State Representative, Third Barnstable District: all of Mashpee; Falmouth precincts 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9; Bourne precincts 4, 5 and 6. In Falmouth precincts 1, 2 and 6 this race is not on your ballot. Every line on this page is a recorded vote, the candidate’s own website, or his own words in print. Tap any receipt.
David Vieira, on election night 2024: “you have to listen to your constituents and help them. Otherwise, why be in public service?”
Receipts
- The quotation: Falmouth Enterprise, Nov. 8, 2024
- “On January 5th, 2011, David was sworn in as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 3rd Barnstable District.” And: “David has served as Falmouth Town Moderator since 1998”. votevieira.com; the Legislature’s biography page lists the same.
- The 2024 firearms law, Vieira recorded No both times: House roll call 62, Oct. 18, 2023; House roll call 135, July 18, 2024 (H.4885)
Answered YES to a state wealth tax. Says he will oppose the ballot question on the state’s tax collection cap.
“I believe Massachusetts has too many taxes on working and middle-class people.”
In April 2026 he voted for Republican amendments to cut the state sales tax to 5 percent and to cut income taxes. They failed on party-line votes.
Receipts
- Richardson answered YES to: “Would you support the establishment of a Massachusetts wealth tax”, and YES to: “Will you oppose the corporate lobby’s ballot question to reform the state tax collection cap law (62F)”. The question wording is the questionnaire’s. Progressive Massachusetts 2026 questionnaire, answered by Richardson, which is also the source of the quotation.
- The state revenue limit and rebate is Question 5 on your November ballot: our ballot guide
- Vieira recorded Yes on Republican tax-cut amendments to the 2026 state budget, Apr. 27, 2026: the amendment to cut the state sales tax from 6.25% to 5%, House roll call 158 (25 to 131); and two further tax-cut amendments, roll call 159 and roll call 162 (each 25 to 132). All failed on party-line votes.
- In 2023 he voted for an amendment titled “Preservation of Voter Approved 62F”: House roll call 17, Apr. 24, 2023 (25 to 132). He also voted yes on the 2023 tax relief package, which passed 155 to 1: roll call 33, Sept. 27, 2023.
Asked whether he will vote yes to keep the 2024 law at the ballot this November, he answered YES.
Amendment
No when the bill first passed the House in 2023, and no on the final version in July 2024. He founded the Legislature’s Sportsmen’s Caucus.
Receipts
- Richardson: “Will you vote YES to protect the 2024 gun safety bill on the ballot in November 2026?” His answer: YES. Progressive Massachusetts 2026 questionnaire
- Vieira recorded No: House roll call 62, Oct. 18, 2023 (H.4135, 120 to 38); House roll call 135, July 18, 2024 (H.4885, 124 to 33, now Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2024)
- “He is also founder of the Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus and currently serves as House Co-Chair of the caucus.” votevieira.com
- That law is Question 9 on your November ballot: our ballot guide
Answered YES to lifting the state ban on rent control, and YES to requiring multi-family zoning statewide. On 40B: “It’s not working for cities and towns like Falmouth.”
Voted for the 2024 Affordable Homes Act. Voted to let towns appeal the state’s MBTA Communities zoning rules. That amendment failed.
Receipts
- Richardson answered YES to: “Would you support lifting the statewide ban on rent control”, adding “I have personally benefited from rent control.” He answered YES to: “Requiring multi-family zoning and removing costly parking mandates around public transportation and city/town centers statewide?” Progressive Massachusetts 2026 questionnaire
- Richardson on 40B: Falmouth Enterprise, May 8, 2026
- Vieira recorded Yes on the Affordable Homes Act: House roll call 117, June 5, 2024 (145 to 13); roll call 199, Aug. 1, 2024 (128 to 24).
- Vieira recorded Yes on amendment 129, which would have let a town “appeal for relief from such provisions”: House roll call 111, June 5, 2024 (32 to 126).
- On a real estate transfer fee, the Enterprise reported: “Richardson said he supports allowing a fee on higher-value home sales, while Vieira said he supports municipalities pursuing their own home-rule petitions but opposes a countywide approach.” Falmouth Enterprise, Sept. 25, 2026
“municipally ran and owned utilities are far cheaper than what we are currently getting from Eversource.”
Bills
Voted for a Republican amendment to cut charges on utility bills. It failed. Voted no on the 2024 climate law and the 2026 energy bill.
Receipts
- Richardson: Progressive Massachusetts 2026 questionnaire. In the same questionnaire: “I believe investing in renewable energy sources so we can reach our climate goals and lower energy costs, but also so we can create thousands of union jobs.”
- Vieira recorded Yes on a Republican amendment to reduce charges on utility bills, House roll call 181, Apr. 29, 2026 (25 to 133).
- Vieira recorded No: House roll call 201, Nov. 14, 2024 (S.2967, 128 to 17); House roll call 141, Feb. 26, 2026 (H.5151, 128 to 27).
- Vieira on the Mass Save energy program: “They’re actually collecting more from rate payers than they’re able to spend each year”. Falmouth Enterprise, Sept. 25, 2026
Elected to the Falmouth Select Board in 2025 to finish one year of another member’s term. Did not run again. Was district director for state Sen. Dylan Fernandes when he entered this race.
Third Assistant Minority Leader in the House. Falmouth’s town moderator since 1998. Served as a deputy sheriff.
Receipts
- Richardson “won election as the town’s youngest candidate ever for the board, to finish the one year left by then Select Board chairwoman Nancy R. Taylor”, and “Richardson currently serves as district director in the office of state Senator Dylan A. Fernandes”: Falmouth Enterprise, Mar. 4, 2026
- “Jack P. Richardson, the 23-year-old Falmouth Select Board member who in spring 2025 ran on bringing a younger perspective to town government, announced this week that he will not seek reelection”: Falmouth Enterprise, Jan. 29, 2026
- Vieira, “Third Assistant Minority Leader”: malegislature.gov. “As a deputy sheriff, David was Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations & Citizen Corps for Barnstable County Sheriff James M. Cummings.” votevieira.com
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Election Day
Votes are from the roll calls of the Massachusetts House. In 2024 Vieira won this seat 16,059 to 12,600 (Secretary of the Commonwealth). Richardson has held no state office, so his side is his own written answers and his own words in print. Quotations are trimmed for length only, never reworded. Sources were read on October 4, 2026. Photo: Vieira official legislative photo (malegislature.gov).