Boston Election Results: City Gives Healey 78% and Same-Day Registration 74%

Boston election results from Tuesday, Nov. 3, show 185,569 ballots cast in the city and Gov. Maura Healey winning 78.2% of the Boston vote, according to unofficial results posted by the Boston Election Department with all 275 precincts reporting as of 3:46 a.m. Wednesday. Boston voters backed six of the nine statewide ballot questions and rejected three.

The results are unofficial. Provisional ballots and mail ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive by Friday, Nov. 6, can still be added, and cities and towns face a Nov. 18 deadline to certify their counts.

Boston election results: turnout and the top of the ticket

The city listed 443,178 registered voters before the election in an Election Department release, which also said more than 2,000 poll workers would staff the polls and that 69,759 mail ballots had been sent out. By a Boston Report calculation, the 185,569 ballots cast equal unofficial turnout of 41.9%. In the 2022 governor’s race, Boston cast 180,830 ballots, a 40.38% turnout. That puts this year’s count 4,739 ballots, or 2.6%, higher, before late ballots are added.

Healey and running mate Kim Driscoll received 143,019 Boston votes. The Republican ticket of Mike Minogue and his running mate, listed as Minogue and Oliver, received 32,772 (17.9%), and the James and Kittredge ticket received 6,725 (3.7%). In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Ed Markey won 142,178 Boston votes (78.2%) to Republican John Deaton’s 28,471 (15.7%); Joe Tache had 7,727 and Shiva Ayyadurai 2,958. Statewide winners are covered in our Massachusetts results story on Healey, Markey and the ballot questions.

Down the ballot, Attorney General Andrea Campbell took 81.4% in Boston, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin 86.2%, Treasurer Deb Goldberg 81.1% and Auditor Diana DiZoglio 90.2%. Rep. Ayanna Pressley received 103,232 votes (96.8%) in the city’s share of the 7th District, and Rep. Stephen Lynch won 76.9% of Boston’s 8th District vote.

How Boston voted on the ballot questions

Boston voters approved Question 1 on public records (87.6% of yes-and-no votes), Question 2 on collective bargaining at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state’s public defender agency (77.9%), Question 4 on same-day voter registration (73.5%), Question 6 on a natural resource conservation fund (68.4%), Question 7 on smaller lots for single-family homes (69.3%) and Question 9, which upholds the state’s gun law (80.8%). The percentages are Boston Report calculations that exclude blank ballots.

The city voted no on Question 3, which would have eliminated party primaries (63.3% no), Question 5 on a state revenue limit and rebate (59.4% no) and Question 8, which would repeal the 2016 marijuana legalization law (78.7% no).

Boston’s margins were wider than the state’s on at least one question. Statewide, Question 4 had 56.9% yes with about 80% of the expected vote counted, CBS News Boston reported citing the Associated Press, and WBUR reported that voters passed it. Boston’s 73.5% yes was about 16.6 points higher. As of Wednesday morning, CBS said Questions 5 and 7 still had no projected statewide winner. Our Massachusetts election tracker follows the final calls.

By the numbers: 2022 vs. 2026 in Boston

Sources: Boston Election Department 2022 official results and 2026 unofficial results; changes are Boston Report calculations.

Healey received 1,634 fewer Boston votes than in 2022, according to the city’s 2022 governor results, even as total ballots rose. Her share fell 2.8 percentage points while the Republican ticket’s share rose about 0.6 points and a third ticket drew 3.7%.

Neighborhood patterns varied. The Dorchester Reporter reported precinct counts showing Minogue ahead 448 to 222 at Florian Hall in Ward 16, Precinct 12, while Healey led 342 to 118 in Ward 7, Precinct 9. The paper also reported that Galvin attributed lines at some polling places to high turnout and unusually long ballots.

What happens next

The Election Department will add eligible late-arriving mail ballots and provisional ballots before the city certifies its results. Ward-and-precinct results are posted on the city’s results page. For more on City Hall and the city’s elections, see our Boston news coverage and our Election Day turnout report from noon Tuesday.

Sources

• City of Boston: Unofficial election results, Nov. 3, 2026 state election
• City of Boston: Election Department issues reminders ahead of Tuesday, Nov. 3 state election
• City of Boston: 2022 state election ballots cast (PDF)
• City of Boston: 2022 governor and lieutenant governor results (PDF)
• CBS News Boston: Massachusetts ballot question results
• WBUR: Mass. voters pass Election Day voter registration
• Dorchester Reporter: Boston voter turnout lags statewide average