Waltham city clerk announces unofficial citywide election results

Waltham voters backed incumbents in the Sept. 1 primary. Waltham City Clerk Joe Vizard announced the city’s unofficial results about two hours after polls closed. Turnout was 25%, up from 20% in the 2024 state primary.

Official results for the full county, district or statewide constituency in each race below will be finalized within four days. Those official results, not the Waltham totals, will determine who appears on the November ballot.

How Waltham voted

U.S. Senate
Democratic: Edward J. Markey (incumbent) — 5,476 votes
Democratic: Seth Moulton — 2,253 votes
Republican: John Deaton — 1,288 votes

Governor
Democratic: Maura Healey (incumbent) — 6,735 votes
Republican: Michael Roger Minogue — 1,131 votes
Republican: Brian Shortsleeve — 380 votes

Lieutenant governor
Governor and lieutenant governor are nominated in separate primaries, but the winners run together on the November ticket. In 2022, for example, Maura Healey topped the Democratic ballot for governor while Kim Driscoll ran against Eric Lesser and Tami Gouveia for lieutenant governor. Healey and Driscoll, each having won their primary, then ran jointly in the general election, as is customary.

Democratic: Kim Driscoll (incumbent) — 6,472 votes
Republican: Shawn Oliver — 1,140 votes

Attorney general
Democratic: Andrea Joy Campbell (incumbent) — 6,432 votes
Republican: Michael C. Walsh — 1,214 votes

Secretary of the commonwealth
Democratic: William Francis Galvin (incumbent) — 6,656 votes
Republican: No candidate

Treasurer
Democratic: Deborah B. Goldberg (incumbent) — 6,325 votes
Republican: Elizabeth Dionne — 1,136 votes

Auditor
Democratic: Diana DiZoglio (incumbent) — 6,290 votes
Republican: No candidate

U.S. House, 5th Congressional District
Democratic: Katherine M. Clark (incumbent) — 4,570 votes
Democratic: Jonathan Paz — 2,581 votes
Democratic: Tarik Samman — 422 votes
Republican: No candidate

Governor’s Council, 3rd District
Democratic: Mara Dolan (incumbent) — 4,965 votes
Democratic: Margie Palladino — 1,790 votes
Republican: No candidate

State Senate, 3rd Middlesex District
Democratic: Michael J. Barrett (incumbent) — 6,272 votes
Republican: No candidate

State House, 9th Middlesex District
Democratic: Thomas M. Stanley (incumbent) — 4,700 votes
Republican: No candidate

State House, 10th Middlesex District
Democratic: John J. Lawn (incumbent) — 1,200 votes
Democratic: Alison Leary — 867 votes
Republican: No candidate

District attorney, Northern District
Democratic: Marian Ryan (incumbent) — 5,488 votes
Democratic: David Marc Solet — 1,709 votes
Republican: No candidate

Register of probate, Middlesex County
Democratic: Tara E. DeCristofaro (incumbent) — 6,094 votes
Republican: No candidate