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It was a very good evening for incumbents in Massachusetts primaries. (It often is.) However the state is poised to elect a couple of new faces to public workplace.
Let’s get proper to yesterday’s outcomes:
Gubernatorial go-time: Gov. Maura Healey, the incumbent Democrat who had no major challengers, will face Republican nominee Mike Minogue this fall. Minogue beat fellow GOP candidate Brian Shortsleeve with greater than 75% of the vote (with 94% of ballots counted). Minogue, who lives in Hamilton, ran the Massachusetts-based medical system firm Abiomed till it was offered for almost $17 billion in 2022. He is put a staggering $15 million of his personal cash into the marketing campaign.
- Get to know him: Minogue spoke about his technique for taking over Healey on this in-depth interview. In the meantime, WBUR’s Simón Rios has particulars on his stance on immigration and ICE and Gin Dumcius goes over his different positions right here.
- His operating mate: Minogue is now set to crew up with New Bedford Metropolis Councilor Shawn Oliver, who gained the GOP major for lieutenant governor despite the fact that he campaigned with Shortsleeve. Why? Minogue’s most well-liked operating mates had been each blocked from the poll because of signature-gathering points. Regardless of some bitter moments on the path, Oliver is now hoping to clean issues over.
- What’s subsequent: Healey has agreed to 2 debates this fall. Throughout a rally final evening, she previewed what’s prone to be her important argument in opposition to Minogue, a serious donor to President Trump. “We will ship a message, that should you assist Donald Trump, should you funded him, should you endorsed the dangerous issues he is completed to our state, then you definitely can’t be governor of Massachusetts,” Healey mentioned.
Markey vs. Moulton: For the second major in a row, Markey defeated a youthful challenger who tried to make age a problem within the race — this time by a a lot wider margin. With 95% of ballots counted, Markey acquired 65% of the vote, almost doubling Seth Moulton’s 35%. Moulton’s pitch did appear to maneuver some voters, however he finally joins erstwhile Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Markey’s electoral graveyard.
- What’s subsequent: Within the common election, Markey is ready to face Republican nominee John Deaton, who chances are you’ll bear in mind ran for Senate (unsuccessfully) simply two years in the past in opposition to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. As for Markey, if he wins in November, the 80-year-old has pledged this can be his remaining time period.
If at first you don’t succeed: Eight years after his first congressional bid, Dan Koh gained the crowded race for Moulton’s seat — regardless of a last-minute effort by progressives to spice up one in every of his opponents. Koh beforehand served as chief of workers to Marty Walsh (each when Walsh was Boston’s mayor and U.S. labor secretary), earlier than working as a particular assistant to President Joe Biden. He narrowly misplaced the 2018 Democratic major within the third District to now-Rep. Lori Trahan, earlier than his hometown of Andover was redistricted into the sixth District. Now, he is poised to hitch Trahan — who waded into this yr’s race simply final week to endorse state Rep. Tram Nguyen — within the state’s delegation.
- What’s subsequent: Koh nonetheless has to win the overall election in opposition to Essex lawyer and Military veteran Micah Jones, who ran unopposed within the Republican major. The sixth District hasn’t despatched a Republican to Congress in over three many years.
Across the delegation: 5 of Massachusetts’ Home members confronted challengers of their primaries — and all 5 beat their challengers. Within the eighth District, Rep. Stephen Lynch fended off a problem from the left in lawyer Patrick Roath by a 11% margin. However maybe the most important shock was within the 1st District, the place highschool instructor Jeromie Whalen and his yellow bus got here inside single digits of taking down longtime Rep. Richard Neal. Click on right here for a full take a look at the congressional outcomes.
There is a new district legal professional on the town: It is nonetheless somewhat too near name the open Norfolk County district legal professional’s race to interchange the outgoing Michael Morrissey. However seasoned legal professional Djuna Elizabeth Perkins has an almost 3,000-vote lead over Karen Learn-backed former federal prosecutor Adam Deitch with 94% of ballots counted.
On Beacon Hill: “Intently watched” and “state Senate race” aren’t usually phrases you see linked throughout major season. However 2026 has been totally different due to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who backed challengers in opposition to two state senators who thwarted her efforts at briefly shifting the property tax burden away from Boston residents and towards companies.
- The outcomes for Wu? Blended, at greatest. State Sen. Nick Collins seems poised to return to the State Home after his challenger, training activist Latoya Gayle, conceded the race late final evening. In the meantime, state Sen. Will Brownsberger is simply hanging on. He is main former Wu aide Daniel Lander by a couple of dozen votes with 99% of ballots counted.
A couple of different notable State Home major outcomes:
- Democratic socialist state Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven seems to have gained the Democratic major for longtime state Sen. Pat Jehlen’s district overlaying Somerville/Medford, beating a extra institutional progressive endorsed by Jehlen and Healey, together with two different candidates.
- In Cambridge, incumbent state Rep. Marjorie Decker has a 505-vote edge in her rematch in opposition to labor organizer Evan MacKay.
- Chris Lampton, a former TV host and contestant on “The Bachelorette,” gained the first to interchange state Rep. Chris Flanagan, a Cape Cod Democrat dealing with federal fraud expenses.
- Melrose state Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian gained the Democratic major for outgoing state Sen. Jason Lewis’ suburban seat north of Boston.
- In a considerably ironic twist, the state senator who formally put ahead Wu’s property tax proposal is now staring down a possible major defeat. State Sen. Mike Rush, a reasonable Democrat from West Roxbury, is trailing progressive challenger Persis Yu by 546 votes, with 99% of ballots counted. (The Related Press hadn’t but referred to as the race as of 10 a.m. Wednesday.)
P.S.— Wish to dive deeper into the outcomes? We have now much more election outcomes on our web site. You possibly can search for each State Home major end result right here. Or see how your group voted within the Republican gubernatorial major with this town-by-town outcomes map.