Voters elect 36 mayors across state

Voters elected 36 mayors across the state today, including the first new mayor in Medford in 28 years and a 23-year-old winner in Fall River.
 
Twenty-eight incumbent mayors were re-elected, while eight new faces join the state’s mayoral delegation.
 
Mayors in eight cities, including Boston, are in the middle of four-year terms and were not on the ballot this year. Nine communities with a city form of government do not have mayors, and mayors in Cambridge and Lowell will be chosen from their respective city councils in January.
 
The following mayors were elected today (* denotes incumbent):
 
Agawam: Richard Cohen*
 
Amesbury: Ken Gray*
 
Attleboro: Kevin Dumas*
 
Braintree: Joseph Sullivan*
 
Beverly: Michael Cahill*
 
Brockton: Bill Carpenter*
 
Chicopee: Richard Kos*
 
Easthampton: Karen Cadieux*
 
Fall River: Jasiel Correia II
 
Fitchburg: Stephen DiNatale
 
Gardner: Mark Hawke*
 
Gloucester: Sefatia Romeo Theken*
 
Greenfield: William Martin*
 
Haverhill: James Fiorentini*
 
Holyoke: Alex Morse*
 
Leominster: Dean Mazzarella*
 
Malden: Gary Christenson*
 
Medford: Stephanie Muccini Burke
 
Melrose: Robert Dolan*
 
Methuen: Stephen Zanni*
 
Marlborough: Arthur Vigeant*
 
New Bedford: Jon Mitchell*
 
North Adams: Richard Alcombright*
 
Peabody: Ted Bettencourt*
 
Pittsfield: Linda Tyer
 
Quincy: Thomas Koch*
 
Revere: Brian Arrigo
 
Somerville: Joseph Curtatone*
 
Springfield: Domenic Sarno*
 
Taunton: Thomas Hoye Jr.*
 
Waltham: Jeannette McCarthy*
 
Westfield: Brian Sullivan
 
West Springfield: William Reichelt
 
Weymouth: Robert Hedlund
 
Woburn: Scott Galvin*
 
Worcester: Joseph M. Petty*

Twenty-one incumbent mayors faced challengers, while a dozen were unopposed. Incumbents had declined to run for re-election in Fitchburg, Westfield, West Springfield and Medford, where the state’s longest-serving mayor, Michael McGlynn, stepped down after 28 years.
 
The following mayors are midway through four-year terms:
Boston: Martin Walsh
Everett: Carlo DeMaria Jr.
Lawrence: Daniel Rivera
Lynn: Judith Flanagan Kennedy
Newburyport: Donna Holaday
Newton: Setti Warren
Northampton: David Narkewicz
Salem: Kimberly Driscoll
 
Voters elected councillors, but not mayors, in Barnstable, Chelsea, Franklin, Randolph, Watertown and Winthrop.
 
In all, voters in 52 cities across the state headed to the polls today to choose candidates for mayor, council, board of aldermen, school committee and a number of other municipal positions. Municipal elections were also held in two towns.
 
In the town of Saugus, which holds to a city election schedule, voters re-elected all five selectmen and chose town meeting members and other town officials. The town of Westminster held a special election today for a Proposition 2½ override.
 
A special state Senate election was also held for the 2nd Plymouth and Bristol District (Brockton; East Bridgewater, Pcts. 1-3; Easton, Pcts. 1, 2; Halifax; Hanover; Hanson; Plympton; Whitman).