United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Massachusetts 8
Stephen Lynch
Result: Won · 69.4% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Stephen Lynch’s FEC committees ran 17 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 13 July 2026 and 18 August 2026. Meta reports $65–75.7K of spend. That makes Stephen Lynch the 134th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Massachusetts 8. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
17
ads on 1 page
$70.3K
reported spend, range $65–75.7K
100%
of spend on federal races
$4.2K
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$70.3K
17 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Stephen F. Lynch · $70.3K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $4.2K
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 15%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$105.5–134K
9 ads from 1 verified advertiser account, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 1 September 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 1.7×
- Formats
- 8 video · 1 text
- Impressions
- 4.8M–5.5M
- Targeting declared
- age on 8 ads · gender on 8 ads
- States named
- Massachusetts
- Last ad shown
- 1 Sep
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Lynch for Congress | 9 | 8 video · 1 text | MA | 13 Jul | 1 Sep | $105.5–134K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 1 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 13 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Patrick Roath$7.5K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 86%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| STEPHEN LYNCH FOR CONGRESS C00366948 | 17 | $70.3K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
I’m running for what we built together. 👷🏻 A health center in Brockton. 🏥 Housing in South Boston. 🏢 Come with me. 🏃🏻
13 August 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $9–10K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
🏗️ Building the Boston skyline didn’t scare me. Neither does taking on Trump.
23 July 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $7–8K · 500K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Veterans centers. Health centers. Housing units. Come with me and see what we built together. 🏃🏻
14 August 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $5–6K · 600K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Corporate bosses. Billionaires. Trump. I’m fighting them to protect what we’ve built.
23 July 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $5–6K · 400K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Massachusetts has never been afraid to fight. Neither has Stephen Lynch.
14 July 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $5–6K · 400K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Meet Private Equity Patrick Roath. Before styling himself as a progressive, he made millions as a corporate lawyer fighting for private equity at one of the largest anti-union law firms in Boston. Keep this poser out of Congress. Vote for Stephen Lynch by 9/1.
18 August 2026 · Stephen F. Lynch · $4.5–5K · 600K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen F. Lynch | 17 | $70.3K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s Ad Library.
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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