How Did Burlington Vote in the Special State Primary?

The results are in from the Massachusetts Special State Primary to fill the vacant seat left by now Secretary of State John Kerry.

The primary consisted of two official Democratic candidates and one write-in candidate and three Republican candidates.

On the Democrat side, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-8th), U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-5th) and Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate) faced off in the primary. Former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and State Rep. Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk) faced off in the Republican primary. 

Massachusetts party voters elected Markey to run for the Democrats and Gomez to run for the Republicans.

How did Burlington vote?

Burlington Democrats also went with Markey with 997 votes compared to Lynch's 940. There were three "write in" votes among the Democrats.

Also like the rest of the state's voters, Burlington Republicans went with Gomez with 331 votes. Sullivan garnered 324 votes and Winslow got 64. There were two "write in" votes cast by Republicans.

A total of 2,261 Burlington voters, or 17.1 percent, of the town's 15,595 eligible voters cast ballots in the special state primary.

Click here for a PDF from the Town Clerk's office with the full precinct-by-precinct results.