It’s not just Boston voters who are heading to the polls this month. Another 11 Massachusetts municipalities held preliminary elections Tuesday to narrow the field for November general elections. Candidates for mayorships, city councils and school committees are now set to face off in the November elections. Here are some of the notable mayoral results:
Everett voters put Carlo DeMaria, the incumbent seeking his sixth term in office as mayor, on the November ballot with 45% of the vote, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. City Councilor Fred Capone, who has sharply criticized DeMaria’s approach to governance, got 31%.
Gerly Adrien, the first Black woman elected to Everett’s City Council, is out of the running, taking 24% of the vote.
Fall River had a day of political tumult, as former Mayor Jasiel Correia was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption and fraud Tuesday. But incumbent Mayor Paul Coogan carried nearly two-thirds of the vote on Tuesday, according to unofficial election results. Coogan defeated his predecessor, Correia, in a landslide in the 2019 election.
Fall River City Council President Cliff Ponte is also advancing to the general election in November with just over a third of the vote. He has criticized Coogan for lacking vision and a plan for the city, and served as acting mayor in late 2019 after Correia stepped down but before Coogan took office.
The mayor’s seat is open to a field of candidates in Holyoke since former Mayor Alex Morse stepped down to become the Provincetown town manager. Six-year At-Large City Councilor Michael Sullivan topped the ticket with 28% of the vote, according to unofficial results from election officials. Blandford town administrator Joshua Garcia also advanced with 22%, followed closely by At-Large Councilor Rebecca Lisi who, in third place with 20%, will not be on the ballot in November. Interim mayor Terence Murphy decided not to run for the seat.
Interim Mayor Kendrys Vasquez and Brian DePeña advanced in Lawrence’s mayoral election, the Eagle-Tribune reported late Tuesday. DePeña has served on Lawrence’s City Council since 2015 and Vasquez took over as mayor in January when former mayor Dan Rivera left to lead the state agency MassDevelopment.
Two-term Attleboro mayor Paul Heroux advanced to the general with 66% of the vote, with retired Massachusetts state police officer and business owner Todd McGhee also moving forward with 26%, according to unofficial results.
Newburyport voters gave City Councilor Charles Tontar 56% of the vote for mayor, an unofficial tally showed, and he’ll be on the ballot in November alongside school committee member Sean Reardon, who took 33%.
In Beverly, incumbent mayor Mike Cahill took nearly 60% of the vote. Esther Ngotho, a nurse, 2017 at-large city councilor candidate and former member of the Beverly Human Rights Committee, followed with a distant 29%, according to unofficial results from Beverly’s city clerk.
Much like in Boston, voters in North Adams — with a population under 13,000 in the northwest corner of Massachusetts — were guaranteed to make history at the polls Tuesday. Residents chose from four female candidates for a position that's only been held by men, including two-term mayor Thomas Bernard, who is not seeking re-election. Jennifer Macksey, who serves under the superintendant in the North Berkshire School Union, and Lynette Bond, a member of the city’s planning board, will advance to the general in November, with 802 and 611 votes, respectively, a North Adams election department official said Tuesday night.
