Everett voters gave Governor Maura Healey a 45-point margin over Republican Mike Minogue on Tuesday and Senator Ed Markey a 51-point margin over John Deaton, and they said yes to seven of the nine statewide ballot questions, including the two the state had not finished counting Wednesday morning. Those figures come from the city-by-city tallies that Decision Desk HQ publishes from the Associated Press count. The Everett Elections Department had not posted its own unofficial precinct results on the city website or its Facebook page as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday; last year’s municipal results went up the night of the election.
About 9,600 Everett ballots were counted in the governor’s race. That is up from the 8,361 ballots cast in the city in the 2022 governor’s race, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s records, when Healey beat Geoff Diehl in Everett 5,459 to 2,472, a margin of 36 points. Her margin here grew by nine points this time. Statewide she led Minogue by about 28 points with 85 percent of the vote counted, so Everett ran roughly 17 points more Democratic than the state.
The statewide offices
The AP-based tallies report a margin and a total for each city rather than a vote count for each candidate, so the figures below are margins. Where a race had only two names on the ballot, the shares are computed from the margin and leave out blanks.
- Governor: Healey over Minogue by 45.3 points in Everett, 9,599 votes counted. Independent Andrea James was also on the ballot. Statewide: Healey by 28.5.
- U.S. Senate: Markey over Deaton by 50.7 points, 9,541 votes. Independent Shiva Ayyadurai was also on the ballot. Statewide: Markey by 32.3.
- Attorney General: Andrea Campbell over Michael Walsh by 47.3 points, 9,371 votes, about 74 percent to 26. Statewide: Campbell by 31.5.
- Treasurer: Deborah Goldberg over Elizabeth Dionne by 50 points, 9,269 votes, 75 percent to 25. Statewide: Goldberg by 32.
Secretary of State William Galvin and Auditor Diana DiZoglio were also on the Everett ballot against Republican challengers; the Decision Desk feed does not carry city rows for those two races. The same is true of the Middlesex County register of probate contest between Tara DeCristofaro and independent Tara Martorella, where the Everett row was still empty Wednesday morning.
The nine questions
Everett’s answers tracked the state on seven questions and went its own way on two.
- Question 1, public records law for the Legislature and governor’s office: Yes by 67 points, about 84 to 16, on 9,032 votes. Passed statewide.
- Question 2, union rights for public defender staff: Yes by 47 points, about 73 to 27, on 8,842 votes. Passed statewide by 28.
- Question 3, top-two primaries: No by 17 points, about 59 to 41, on 8,937 votes. Failed statewide by 22.
- Question 4, Election Day registration: Yes by 31 points, about 66 to 34, on 8,970 votes. Leading statewide by 14.
- Question 5, the state revenue cap: Yes by 3.5 points, about 52 to 48, on 9,190 votes. The state was leaning no by about 6 points with three quarters of the vote in. Everett was on the losing side of that one, narrowly.
- Question 6, the Nature for All conservation fund: Yes by 32 points, about 66 to 34, on 9,105 votes. Passed statewide by 22.
- Question 7, a single-family home allowed on any lot of 5,000 square feet with 50 feet of frontage: Yes by 30 points, about 65 to 35, on 8,856 votes. Statewide this was a one-point race, too close to call Wednesday morning. Everett, where the typical house lot is already smaller than the limit the question would set, voted for it by a wide margin.
- Question 8, repeal of retail marijuana: No by 40 points, about 70 to 30, on 8,973 votes. Failed statewide by 50.
- Question 9, keeping the 2024 gun law: Yes by 48 points, about 74 to 26, on 9,302 votes. Passed statewide by 36.
Roughly 8,800 to 9,600 Everett voters weighed in on each question, so between 300 and 1,100 people who voted for governor skipped a given question. Question 2, on the public defenders’ union, drew the fewest votes; the gun law question drew the most.
What is still unofficial
These numbers come from precinct returns reported to the AP on election night. They can change slightly when the city counts the last provisional and overseas ballots, and the official totals are the ones the Elections Department certifies and the state later posts. The Decision Desk tables do not show what share of Everett’s precincts had reported, though the city has in past elections reported all of its precincts together. The Elections Department can be reached at 617-394-2297. This story will be updated with the city’s own ward and precinct tallies when they are posted.
Everett had no contested races for state representative or state senate on this ballot, and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley was unopposed in the Seventh District. Source for the city rows: Decision Desk HQ’s Everett page. Source for the 2022 comparison: the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
