Politics & Government
See Beacon Hill's Special Election Results
It was a good Tuesday for Ed Markey on Beacon Hill.

Voters on Beacon Hill went to the polls on Tuesday for the special election that saw Congressman Edward Markey (D-Malden) beat businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez (R-Cohasset).
Markey won Beacon Hill big over Gomez and third party candidate Richard Heos of Woburn of the Twelve Visions Party. In Boston overall, unofficial totals had Markey taking 76 percent of the vote to Gomez's 23 percent and Heos getting under 1 percent.
Turnout in Boston was just shy of 25 percent, according to the city election department.
Here's how the voting shook out in Beacon Hill's precincts:
WARD 3 PRECINCT 6: Markey: 493 (64.36 percent) Gomez: 267 (34.86 percent) Heos: 2 (0.26 percent) Write-ins: 4 (0.57 percent)
WARD 5 PRECINCT 3: Markey: 345 (65.46 percent) Gomez: 182 (34.54 percent) Heos: 0
WARD 5 PRECINCT 4: Markey: 347 (71.84 percent) Gomez: 134 (27.74 percent) Heos: 1 (0.21 percent) Write-ins: 1 (0.21 percent)
WARD 5 PRECINCT 5: Markey: 150 (64.94 percent) Gomez: 80 (34.63 percent) Heos: 1 (0.43 percent)
WARD 5 PRECINCT 11: Markey: 264 (68.04 percent) Gomez: 122 (31.44 percent) Heos: 1 (0.26 percent) Write-ins: 1 (0.26 percent)
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