Somerville Votes for Markey and Gomez as Both Candidates Win Primaries

Somerville voters chose Rep. Ed Markey, a Democrat, and former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez, a Republican, in Tuesday's special primary for U.S. Senate.

Voters in the rest of the state concurred, as both candidates will face off against each other in a special election on June 25.

In Somerville, Markey earned 75 percent of the vote while his Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Stephen Lynch, took 24 percent of the vote. Markey had 6,587 votes and Lynch had 2,120 votes, according to unofficial results from the Somerville Election Department.

On the Republican side, Gomez received 47 percent of the vote in Somerville. His primary opponents, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and State Rep. Dan Winslow received 35 percent and 17 percent of the vote, respectively.

There were 330 votes for Gomez, 247 votes for Sullivan and 116 votes for Winslow.

In Somerville, 9,437 voters cast ballots, representing a turnout of about a 19 percent, based on voter registration numbers from the 2012 presidential election.