Deaton To Face Warren For U.S. Senate; State Rep. Races Decided

Updated 11 p.m.

MASSACHUSETTS — U.S. Marine veteran, attorney and author John Deaton will challenge U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on the November ballot after he defeated two challengers in the state primary on Tuesday.

The Associated Press called the race for Deaton at about 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday with just three percent of the vote statewide after Deaton jumped out to a large early lead on Republican challengers Roberth Antonellis and Ian Cain.

With 74 percent of precincts reporting, Deaton had 64.9 percent of the vote, with Antonellis at 26.2 percent and Cain at 8.9 percent, according to the AP.

Warren ran uncontested in the Democratic primary.

While the bulk of contested races between parties for state and federal offices, as well as Governor's Council, Register of Deeds and Clerk of Courts, do not occur until the November general election, there were a handful of other contested battles for a spot on that November ballot decided on Tuesday.

There was also a Republican race in U.S. District 8 to challenge U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch between Robert Burke, James Govatsos and Daniel Kelly with the AP calling the race for Burke at about 10:50 p.m.

U.S. District 9 Rep. Bill Keating will face a November ballot challenge from Dan Sullivan but both primaries are uncontested.

None of the other seven U.S. Reps. will be challenged by a candidate on the ballot in November

There are also two contested State House primaries in the Newton/Brookline area where Democrat incumbents opted not to run for re-election this cycle.

In the 12th Middlesex District, three Democrats were running to replace Ruth Balser on Beacon Hill. Bill Humphrey, Rick Lipof and Greg Schwartz are on the ballot. With no Republican challenger, the winner of the Democratic primary will likely gain that seat in November.

The AP declared Schwartz the winner at 9:56 p.m. with 99 percent of the vote counted. Schwartz held nearly an 800-vote lead at the time with 39.9 percent to 30.4 percent for Humphrey and 29.7 percent for Lipof.

In the 11th Middlesex District, two Democrats were running for the seat currently held by Kay Khan. Alexander Jablon and Amy Sangiolo were running for the chance to square off against Republican Vladislav Yanovsky in November with the AP declaring the race for Sangiolo at about 9:20 p.m. amid an overwhelming victory.

As of 9:30 p.m., Sangiolo was at 82.6 percent of the vote to Jablon at 17.4 percent.

On the North Shore, 6th Essex Representative Jerry Parisella is running unopposed in the Democrat primary with challenger Ty Vitale running unopposed as the Republican challenger.

In the 2nd Essex State Senator race, incumbent Democrat Joan Lovely is running unopposed in the primary with Republican challenger Damian Anketell running unopposed for the GOP nomination.