U.S. House · Massachusetts's 3rd District
Dennis Conlon
CandidateUnenrolled
- Race
- U.S. House · Massachusetts's 3rd District
- Result
- Lori Trahan, projected winner
- Opponents
- Lori Trahan (D); Gary Grossi (R)
- Research
- Basic
Party linenone
No recorded floor votes — not a current legislator in our records.
Said vs. did1 statement · 0 votes
I am a conservative independent who wants single payer, universal, medicaid for all, whatever you want to call it.
Expand public health coverage
Compare statements with votes ›On the ballotU.S. House · 3
2026-11-03
| Lori Trahan D | incumbent |
| Gary Grossi R | challenger |
| Dennis Conlon Unenrolled | challenger |
Said vs. did
Each documented position next to the recorded floor votes we map to the same issue. Votes are compared one at a time; no overall stance is inferred from them.
I am a conservative independent who wants single payer, universal, medicaid for all, whatever you want to call it.
Says he supports a single-payer, universal health-coverage system.[4]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Biography
Dennis Conlon, an Unenrolled retired analytical chemist and former product-development principal scientist, lost the November 3, 2026 election for Massachusetts's 3rd District to Lori Trahan. He said his campaign was self-funded and took no outside contributions, and that he collected over 2,200 signatures himself to qualify for the ballot. He described himself as 73 and said he would be content with one term.[1][2][3]
Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.
Conlon earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1976, an MBA from Providence College in 1993, and, according to BallotReady, a certificate in biopharmaceutical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2007.[1][2] He describes a 43.5-year career as an analytical chemist, most recently as a principal scientist in product development for a medical device manufacturer, and says he holds 9 U.S. patents as an inventor.[1] BallotReady lists his work history as senior scientist at Bayer Diagnostics (1976-1999), principal scientist at Instrumentation Laboratory (1999-2019), and QC laboratory technician at Cytiva (2021-2022).[2]
In his Ballotpedia survey responses, Conlon says he has been married 45 years.[1] He received 2.5% of the vote to Lori Trahan's 67.2%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[3]
In their own words
Campaign moneyNo FEC filing summary matched — state candidates file with their state, not the FEC.
Profile: /people/dennis-conlon
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Sources cited in this profile
- 1.Dennis Conlon, Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey responses · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey · 2026-09-25 Candidate's own words
- 2.Dennis R. Conlon · BallotReady · 2026-10-21 Reference
- 3.U.S. House · Massachusetts's 3rd District results 2026 · NBC News News report
- 4.Dennis Conlon, Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey responses · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey · 2026-09-25 Candidate's own words