Belmont voters came out in stronger than expected numbers in the 2014 Massachusetts state party primaries held on Tuesday, Sept. 9.
The election saw one in four Belmont voters – 4,619 of the town’s 18,066 registered voters for 25.6 percent – come out to cast a ballot which is a higher percentage then in 2012 (21.1 percent) and 2010 (20.7 percent).
Belmont voters gave a big 1,500 vote boost to home-town candidate and winner Marian Ryan for the Democrat nomination for Middlesex District Attorney in a bruising campaign against Mike Sullivan.
And while voters did select Warren Tolman over eventual winner Maura Healey (who filmed a portion of her campaign commercial at the Grove Street basketball courts) in the Democrat Attorney General race, it was by a very narrow margin – by just about 300 votes – considering the candidate had a great deal of name recognition through his brother, Stephen, who was the town’s long-time state senator.
And the race for Democrat governor was as close in Belmont as it was statewide with Maratha Coakley slipping by Stephen Grossman, 39 percent to 35 percent – about a 150 vote margin – with Donald Berwick getting a better than expected 26 percent.
Here are the results:
Democrat
Governor
Martha Coakley 1,547 39%
Steven Grossman 1,371 35%
Donald Berwick 1,008 26%
Lt. Governor
Leland Cheung 1,694 55%
Stephen Kerrigan 930 30%
Michael Lake 444 14%
Attorney General
Warren Tolman 2,094 53%
Maura Healey 1,819 46%
Treasurer
Deborah Goldberg 1,355 41%
Thomas Conroy 999 30%
Barry Finegold 919 28%
Governor’s Councillor
M.M. Petitto Devane 1,728 57%
Charlie Shapiro 1,316 43%
Middlesex District Attorney
Marian Ryan 2,530 71%
Michael Sullivan 1,032 29%
Republican
Governor
Charles Baker 483 82%
Mark Fisher 105 18%
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