united states house of representatives elections , 1988
the majority of the united states house of representatives incumbents were from the democratic party .
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most_eq { all_rows ; party ; democratic } = true
for the party records of all rows , most of them fuzzily match to democratic .
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['district', 'incumbent', 'party', 'first elected', 'result', 'candidates']
[['massachusetts 1', 'silvio conte', 'republican', '1958', 're - elected', 'silvio conte ( r ) 82.7 % john r arden ( d ) 17.3 %'], ['massachusetts 2', 'edward boland', 'democratic', '1952', 'retired democratic hold', 'richard neal ( d ) 80.3 % louis r godena ( i ) 19.7 %'], ['massachusetts 3', 'joseph d early', 'democratic', '1974', 're - elected', 'joseph d early ( d ) unopposed'], ['massachusetts 4', 'barney frank', 'democratic', '1980', 're - elected', 'barney frank ( d ) 70.3 % debra r tucker ( r ) 29.7 %'], ['massachusetts 7', 'ed markey', 'democratic', '1976', 're - elected', 'ed markey ( d ) unopposed'], ['massachusetts 9', 'joe moakley', 'democratic', '1972', 're - elected', 'joe moakley ( d ) unopposed']]