On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the primary election results were decided by just over 20% of each town’s registered voters, according to unofficial results obtained by the Cape Cod Times from 15 town clerks.
Voter turnout, which includes election day and early voting, ranged from 20.7% in Chatham to 27% in Orleans. Voting was particularly slow in the morning throughout the Cape, as poll workers typically outnumbered voters at polling stations from Bourne to Provincetown.
In Yarmouth, according to Deputy Town Clerk Susan Regan, 25 people voted in the first hour of the polls. By midday, 485 people had already voted.
“We started really slowly,” she said.
Employees in Dennis, Harwich, Chatham, Mashpee and Sandwich also shared this opinion.
“Why rush to the polls?” asked Deborah Kaye, Mashpee’s town clerk. “You can easily vote by mail.”
Who won the state House of Representatives and Senate elections for Cape Cod?
Democrats Thomas Moakley and Arielle Faria are competing against each other in the race for the State House of Representatives for Barnstable, Duke and Nantucket counties.
After 97.62% of the votes were counted, Moakley (56.7%) was ahead of Faria (43.3%) by 3,460 votes to 2,645.
Moakley won 79.4% of the vote in Barnstable County and 60.2% in Nantucket County. Faria won Duke’s County with 60.3% of the vote.
Initial unofficial results show Republican Mathew Muratore narrowly ahead of Republican Kari MacRae in the race for the State Senate seat for Barnstable and Plymouth. With 98.99% of the vote, Muratore received 50.2% or 6,978 votes. MacRae had 49.8% or 6,928 votes as of Wednesday morning.
Muratore vs McRae: Recount announced in race for Senate seats in Plymouth and Barnstable. What’s next?
Barnstable Board of Regional Commissioners
With two seats on the Barnstable Board of Regional Commissioners open and two Democrats and two Republicans running in the primary, all four candidates will compete in the general election.
According to unofficial results from the 15 Cape towns, Democratic incumbents Sheila Lyons and Mark Forest received 22,906 and 19,612 votes, respectively.
Republican challengers Ronald Beaty Jr. and Cynthia Stead received 9,889 and 8,121 votes, respectively.
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren won her primary easily. She will face Republican John Deaton in the general election. Deaton won all districts in Tuesday’s primary against Republicans Robert Antonellis and Ian Cain. Initial unofficial results showed Deaton receiving 64.9% or 132,986 votes.
There were no Libertarian candidates on the ballot in any of the Cape elections.
Denise Coffey writes about business, tourism and issues that affect Cape residents and visitors. You can reach her at [email protected] .
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