Lynn voters cast 21,966 ballots in the November 3 state election, 34.5 percent of the city’s 63,738 registered voters, and gave Senator Edward J. Markey and Governor Maura Healey about two thirds of the vote, according to the unofficial precinct results posted by Lynn Community Television after the election. The city passed Question 5, the state revenue limit and rebate, by 10,908 to 10,081, a margin of 827 votes, rejected the marijuana sales ban in Question 8 by 14,771 to 5,880, and voted to keep the 2024 firearms law 15,119 to 6,161.
The sheet, a 30-precinct table posted through Lynn Community Television, lists each candidate’s votes by precinct but carries no column of citywide totals; the figures here are the sums of the precinct columns. The results are unofficial until the city clerk certifies them.
Ward 1 cast a quarter of the ballots
Turnout was uneven to a degree that shaped every result. Ward 1, with 11,147 registered voters, cast 5,429 ballots, 48.7 percent, and accounted for one ballot in four citywide. Ward 7 followed at 36.3 percent with 3,578 ballots, Ward 3 at 35.6 percent with 3,295, Ward 2 at 32.3 percent with 2,874, Ward 5 at 28.9 percent with 2,489, Ward 6 at 27.0 percent with 2,074 and Ward 4 at 26.9 percent with 2,227. By precinct the range ran from 58.4 percent in Ward 1, Precinct 1 to 18.8 percent in Ward 5, Precinct 2. Four precincts, in Wards 2, 4, 5 and 6, turned out fewer than one voter in four.
Statewide offices
Markey received 15,072 votes to 5,325 for John Deaton, 464 for Shiva Ayyadurai and 497 for Joe Tache, with 26 write-ins and 408 blanks, 68.6 percent of ballots cast. Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll took 14,753 votes, 67.2 percent, to 5,979 for the Minogue and Oliver ticket and 729 for James and Kittredge. Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell beat Michael C. Walsh 14,753 to 6,248. Secretary of State William Francis Galvin received 16,252 votes; the sheet’s Ward 1, Precinct 1 entry for Anne R. Brensley reads 5,506, more than three times the 1,747 ballots cast there, and if that entry is read as 550 her citywide total is 4,813. Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg beat Elizabeth Dionne 15,149 to 5,687 and Auditor Diana DiZoglio beat Al Ozonoff 16,840 to 2,617, with 2,164 blanks.
Deaton’s strongest precincts were in Ward 1, where he drew 627 votes in Precinct 1 and 438 in Precinct 2 against Markey’s 981 and 678, and in Ward 7, Precincts 1 and 2, where he took 286 and 250. In Ward 4, Precincts 1 and 2, the Republican candidates were held below 80 votes in every statewide race.
Congress, the Legislature and the county
In the Sixth Congressional District, Dan Koh received 14,984 Lynn votes to 6,014 for Micah Quinney Jones, 71.4 percent of the two-candidate vote, with 62 write-ins and 743 blanks. Governor’s Councillor Terrence W. Kennedy, unopposed, had 16,877 votes with 533 write-ins and 4,393 blanks, and Senator Brendan Peter Crighton of Lynn, also unopposed, had 17,151 with 560 write-ins and 4,092 blanks, the most votes of anyone on the city’s ballot.
Lynn is split among four House districts, and the sheet shows each race only in the precincts where it appeared. Daniel Francis Cahill, unopposed, received 7,018 votes across 13 precincts with 236 write-ins and 1,627 blanks. Sean Daniel Reid, unopposed, received 6,624 across 12 precincts with 189 write-ins and 1,503 blanks. Jennifer WB Armini, unopposed, received 1,338 in the three Lynn precincts of her district. The one contested House race on a Lynn ballot appeared in two precincts, where Peter Meaney received 1,470 votes to 1,283 for Donald H. Wong; the district outcome depends on the other communities in it and is not asserted here. District Attorney Paul F. Tucker received 16,961 votes and Register of Probate Pamela Casey O’Brien 16,929, each unopposed, with more than 4,300 blanks apiece.
The ballot questions
Lynn approved seven of the nine binding questions. Question 1, the public records law, passed 17,155 to 3,453, 83.2 percent. Question 2, collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services staff, passed 14,695 to 5,616, 72.3 percent. Question 3, the single state primary, failed 8,378 to 12,156, 41 to 59 percent. Question 4, election day registration, passed 12,758 to 7,800, 62.1 percent. Question 5 passed 10,908 to 10,081, 52.0 to 48.0 percent, with 831 blanks. Question 6, the conservation fund, passed 13,609 to 7,324, 65.0 percent. Question 7, single-family homes on small lots, passed 12,288 to 8,161, 60.1 percent. Question 8, the marijuana sales ban, failed 5,880 to 14,771, 28 to 72 percent. Question 9, keeping the gun law, passed 15,119 to 6,161, 71.0 percent. A tenth, non-binding question appeared only in a few precincts, and its figures are not reported here.
Question 5 is where Lynn parted from its neighbors. Salem rejected it 59 to 41, Medford 62 to 38, Melrose 61 to 39 and Somerville 76 to 24, while Winthrop passed it by the same 52 to 48 as Lynn and Lynnfield by 57 to 43. The yes side carried all seven wards and 21 of the 30 precincts; the no side won Ward 1, Precinct 1, the city’s highest-turnout precinct, by 834 to 816, and Ward 7, Precinct 1 by 542 to 504. Lynn’s 72 percent against the marijuana ban was the lowest no share among the seven communities except Lynnfield’s 67.
What each question asked
Questions 1 through 8 were laws proposed by initiative petition: expanding the public records law to the Legislature and the governor’s office, collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services employees, a single state primary in place of party primaries, election day voter registration, a change to the state revenue limit and the taxpayer rebate tied to it, a natural resource conservation fund, single-family homes on small lots, and a prohibition on the retail sale of adult-use marijuana. Question 9 was a referendum on the firearms law enacted in 2024, so a yes vote kept the law.
What comes next
The precinct rows on the sheet do not add exactly to the ballots-cast line; the Senate race, for example, accounts for 21,792 of the 21,966 ballots. Differences of that size are usual in an election night tally and are reconciled when the clerk certifies the count, which also folds in any overseas and provisional ballots that qualify after election day. Statewide and district outcomes are certified by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and are not asserted here.
The unofficial results sheet is posted here and the Lynn Community Television notice that carries it is here.
