Election 2024

Former state Senate candidate Kari MacRae has been granted a court date in her lawsuit over September’s Republican primary.

The Cape and Islands gave Vice President Kamala Harris some of her highest margins of victory in the state. And one South Coast town delivered Donald Trump's biggest win in Massachusetts.

The last local race to be called was the contest for the Plymouth and Barnstable state Senate seat. Fernandes narrowly topped Muratore. In all the other contested races, the incumbents came out on top. We've got details.

All four leases sold for the minimum bid of $50 per acre. That's a big drop from 2018.

“It’s the best thing since sliced bread,” Maryann Kulpa said of early voting in Harwich. She said she was feeling anxious about the outcome of the election. “So it’s over. I voted,” she said tearfully. “I came in early because there’s so much cold and flu going around that if I got sick I would be horrified if I didn’t vote.”

“There is a whole lot of anxiety out there about elections right now,” New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell said Wednesday.

Midway through early voting, election workers in our region say turnout has been strong.

Since the pandemic, mail-in voting has become highly popular. The more mail-in ballots, the more work it takes to verify the signatures as the law requires.

Kari MacRae, who ran unsuccessfully in a Republican primary for state Senate last month, alleges that election officials failed to compare voters’ signatures on the inner ballot envelopes with their signatures on their applications for an early-voting ballot. She says such action violates the law and should invalidate the primary.

The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates has proposed changes to the county charter that would give the Assembly more power over the county budget. But the County Commissioners are against Ballot Question 6, and voted unanimously to oppose it last week.