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Massachusetts Primary Election Results 2024: What we know on Wednesday
Voters in the Massachusetts primary made their decisions about who to send to November’s general election on Nov. 5.
In the general election, residents will not only decide between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for president, but a variety of state-level races. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s challenger in the November election will be former Marine and attorney-at-law John Deaton a new Bolton resident.
“Massachusetts voters are ready for a change,” Deaton said, promising to bring that change into the state. He praised his primary challengers, noting that each has the potential to do well in politics.
Allison Cartwright and John E. Powers win clerk races
Allison S. Cartwright beat Erin J. Murphy in the Democratic primary for Clerk of Courts, Suffolk County- Supreme Judicial division. There is no Republican on the ballot in November’s general election. Cartwright received 33,022 votes from Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop voters, while Murphy received 22,9905.
John E. Powers III, the incumbent, beat challenger Faustina Kathy Gabriel in the Democratic primary for Clerk of Courts, Suffolk County- Civil Business division. There is no Republican on the ballot in November’s general election. Powers received 30,406 votes from Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop voters, while Gabriel received 19,278.
Cambridge race may require a recount
With 99% of the votes counted, the race for 25th Middlesex District race might require a recount, with only 40 votes separating the two candidates.
Incumbent State Rep. Marjorie Decker appears poised to lose her seat to union leader and graduate student Evan MacKay. At of this morning, MacKay has 3,354 votes, or 50.3%, and Decker has 3,314 of 49.7%, according to the Associate Press’s unofficial results with 99% of votes counted.
Massachusetts State law says recounts can be requested if the differential is not more than half of 1% of the total votes cast for office.
While the race is close, MacKay reportedly declared victory at his campaign party on election night, while Decker has not yet seceded the race, according to The Boston Globe.
What happened in the Democratic Governor’s Council races?
The Governor’s Council is a government body made up of eight members that meet to approve the governor’s judicial or administrative nominations, pardon recommendations or state treasury warrants.
Three seats have races in the primary, with most eyes on the District 3 race between Mary Dolan and incumbent Marilyn Petitto Devaney, both Democrats. Devaney, who had held the seat for 10 years, lost to Dolan in the unofficial results. Dolan secured 52.2% of the vote.
Dolan said she will bring her experience as a public defender to the Council table, which her website says is important because the Council helps decide who judges are, who will be on the Parole Board and who receives commuted sentences and pardons.
In District 2, a race between Democrats Tamisha Civil, Sean Murphy , Muriel Kramer, and David Reservit was won by Civil who secured 38.7% of the vote in the unofficial results. In the November election, Civil will face Republican Francis Crimmins.
In the District 4 race between Democrats Christopher Iannella and Stacey Borden, Iannella won with 56.5% of the votes.
What is the deadline to register to vote in the November general election?
If you could not vote yesterday because you were not registered, here’s what you need to know for the next election. October 26 is the last day you can register to vote in Massachusetts for the general election. Here are you options:
- In person at your local election office by 5 p.m.
- Online on Oct. 26 by 11:59 p.m.
- By mail, postmarked Oct. 26
Massachusetts election results
Polls close throughout the Commonwealth at 8 p.m. and as part of the USA Today Network in Massachusetts, we are covering it live. For your site’s election results, click on the link and find the race you want to know about.
When do election results come out?
Election results started coming out soon after the polls close at 8 p.m. The first results were available within the first 30 minutes after polls close; however, they represent a very small pool of the ballots cast and are not necessarily a reliable indicator of how the rest of the night will go as more votes roll in.
As more votes are counted, the Associated Press will call races once candidates “no longer have a path to victory.” (You can read an explanation of the process here.) Some results were not available until after 11 p.m. or this morning.
These are all considered unofficial results, because the final results need to be certified by election officials, which does not happen until a few days after the election.
What’s on the ballot
To see a full list of the Democratic Party candidates, click here. To see a full list of the Republican Party candidates, click here. The offices on the 2024 ballot include the following, but there are not contested races in all of them.
- U.S. Senator
- U.S. Representative
- Governor’s Councillor
- State Senator
- State Representative
- Register of Deeds
- Clerk of Courts
- County Commissioner (certain counties only)
Just as the summer travel season heats up, gas prices are finally dropping, with the national average falling below $4 a gallon.
It marks the first time since March 30 prices are that low, and follows nearly four straight weeks of declines, according to data from AAA.
Massachusetts and the northeast as a whole are still above that average, at $4.09 a gallon, but it’s down sharply just in the past week.
Prices are lower south of Boston, such as in Bristol and Plymouth counties, and some wholesale clubs are selling at $3.60 a gallon.
Mark Schieldrop, spokesperson for AAA Northeast, says the highest price paid at the pump in Massachusetts during the war was $4.50 a gallon.
Schieldrop said the decrease comes on the heels of the U.S. agreement with Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, causing crude oil prices to fall.
“We’ve seen a nice steady decline in prices that really started more than three weeks ago,” he said, “Markets anticipated this happening, and that really led to prices beginning to fall.”
Since prices can vary, he recommends drivers shop around and avoid convenient locations.
“You are going to see those higher gas prices right off that highway exit at that first gas station that you see, because they know that they’re going to catch a lot of stray travelers,” he said.
Decreasing gas prices comes as millions of Americans prepare to travel for July 4 in record numbers starting next weekend.
“When prices are on a downward trajectory, that certainly is conducive to encouraging folks to travel,” Schieldrop said. “We do expect strong travel over the July Fourth holiday. And people are still very interested in travel.”
While gas station owners are sometimes accused of price gouging, Schieldrop said most are trying to navigate a volatile market themselves, and are looking to stay competitive when prices drop and they have a surplus.
“They have to be very careful about sort of using a price buffer to ride that volatility so that way you’re able to make money, but you’re not gouging customers, and you’re being competitive in a market because the retail gasoline market is very competitive, ”he said.
Prices a year ago were $3.05 a gallon, but he said we won’t be getting anywhere near those prices this summer.
Local News
The annual lottery is for standard white Massachusetts passenger license plates.
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles announced on Monday it is now taking applications for the 2026 Annual Low Number Plate Lottery.
The annual lottery is for standard white Massachusetts passenger license plates. Winners and alternate winners will be selected using an electronic random number generator and notified by mail no later than Sept. 15.
To be eligible, an applicant must be a current Massachusetts resident with an active, state registered and insured passenger motor vehicle. They must also have a state-issued driver’s license or ID in good standing.
You can apply through Aug. 14 at the myRMV Online Service Center.
While there’s no cost to enter, “applicants selected in the lottery will be required to pay the special plate fee in addition to the applicable standard vehicle registration fee,” the RMV said.
Commercial vehicles and motorcycles will not be accepted as applicants. MassDOT workers and contract employees and their immediate family members are ineligible to participate, the RMV said.
Massachusetts
Two men indicted for Hinsdale robbery after ‘cigarette trail’ leads through Vermont, Massachusetts
HINSDALE, N.H. (ABC22/FOX44) – Two men from Massachusetts have been indicted after they allegedly stole more than $200,000 in cigarettes and fled in a stolen U-Haul van before setting it on fire.
According to court documents, the men robbed the T-Bird Mini Mart on Brattleboro Road in Hinsdale, New Hampshire back on March 15. They then allegedly drove the U-Haul north into Brattleboro, Vermont before heading south on Interstate 91 down in Massachusetts.
Cartons of cigarettes reportedly fell from the back of the van as it drove through Brattleboro, which were estimated to be worth more than $50,000. The “trail of cigarettes” was reportedly used by investigators examining surveillance footage to track the path of the van leading up to the arrest of two suspects last week.
Richard Conner, 64, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and James Ferguson, 66, of Worcester, Massachusetts, were arrested on Friday.
According to court documents, Ferguson was also seen on camera earlier in March stealing the U-Haul van in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The two men now face federal charges under the Hobbs Act and, if convicted, could spend up to 20 years in prison.
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