Nearly 74 percent of Boston’s Democratic voters in the Sept. 1 primary supported Sen. Ed Markey in his successful reelection bid, according to the city’s unofficial election results.
Sen. Markey garnered 55,163 votes citywide, while his challenger, Rep. Seth Moulton, garnered 19,273 votes to account for nearly 26 percent of the ballot.
Sen. Markey will now face Republican nominee John Deaton and third-party socialist candidate Joe Tache in the Nov. 3 general election.
In the Democratic race for the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts, longtime Congressman Stephen Lynch defeated progressive attorney Patrick Roath, although Boston voters largely didn’t support Rep. Lynch in his reelection coup.
More than 55 percent of Boston’s registered voters cast 15,447 ballots for Roath, while Lynch trailed with 12,381 votes, which accounted for around 44 percent of the city’s ballot.
In the Democratic race for Suffolk County district attorney, around 49 percent of Boston voters supported Kevin Hayden in his successful reelection bid.
Linda Champion, a former prosecutor under Hayden, trailed him, garnering nearly 26 percent of Boston’s ballot (17,885 votes), while ex-U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins placed third in that race, with about 24 percent of the ballot (17,022 votes).
According to the city’s Election Department, which recruited and trained more than 1,872 poll workers across the 275 voting precincts in Boston, there are a total of 438,367 registered voters citywide. (More than 474 poll workers were available to provide assistance in languages that include Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean, Russian, and Portuguese.)
As of Thursday, Aug. 27, a total of 4,558 voters had cast ballots at in-person early-voting locations throughout Boston, according to the city.