Braintree may refer to:
Braintree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by James Cleverly of the Conservative Party.
The current boundaries of the Braintree constituency is based on Braintree, Bocking, and Great Bardfield in the northwest, moving in a southwesterly direction towards Coggeshall, Silver End, and Kelvedon.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England created for 2010 a modified Braintree constituency with electoral wards:
This modified list allowed a new Witham seat to be created and caused extension out towards the Stour Valley, the border of Suffolk, and took in Bumpstead which shares a civil parish boundary with south-east Cambridgeshire.
Braintree (US pronunciation: /ˌbreɪnˈtriː/), officially the Town of Braintree, is a suburban New England city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a town, Braintree adopted a municipal charter, effective 2008, with a mayor-council form of government and is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 35,744 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Greater Boston area with access to the MBTA Red Line and is a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission's South Shore Coalition. The first and current mayor of Braintree is Joe Sullivan. Braintree, Massachusetts is named after Braintree, Essex in England.
The town of Braintree was settled in 1625, colonized in 1635 and incorporated in 1640 and named after the English town of Braintree. It comprised land that was later split into Randolph, Holbrook, and Quincy Massachusetts. Braintree was part of Suffolk County until the formation of Norfolk County in 1793.