J. Joseph Moakley is elected to represent the Ninth Congressional District.

Moakley (I), with 70,571 votes, defeats incumbent Louise Day Hicks (D), with 67,143, Melvin Miller (R), with 23,177, and a Socialist Workers Party candidate, with 2,397 votes. In Boston, Moakley loses to Hicks by a margin of 40,810 to 40,618. Moakley lives at 1812 Columbia Road. He is reelected until his death in 2001.*