See How Watertown Voted for President, Senate & on Ballot Questions in 2024

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Charlie Breitrose

Watertown voters came out to vote in large numbers, both on election day and during the early voting and mail-in period.

Two-thirds of Watertown’s 26,418 voters cast their ballots in the 2024 State Election, according to the unofficial Watertown Election results sent out by the Watertown City Clerk’s Office.

Nearly 60 percent of the 17,542 votes in the election were cast during the early voting period or sent in mail-in ballots, said City Clerk Noelle Gilligan. About 200 to 300 people voted each of the day during the 14 day early voting period. A total of 3,250 residents came to City Hall to vote during the early voting period, Gilligan said, while 7,203 mail-in ballots were sent in.

Many people waited until Tuesday to cast their votes.

“There were lots of lines,” Gilligan said.

The voter turn out was 66 percent in 2024, which was down from 2020 when 76 percent of register voters participated, according to Gilligan.

Results

Watertown voters mirrored the statewide results in Tuesday’s election.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz received nearly 74 percent of the vote in Watertown, with 12,974 votes, and Donald Trump and JD Vance received over 21 percent, with 3,723. The remaining five percent went to the other four parties, write-ins or were left blank. Statewide, Harris/Walz received nearly 62 percent of the vote, according to the AP results with 87.45 percent counted.

Seventy-three percent of Watertown voters backed Elizabeth Warren, who received 12,834 votes for U.S. Senate. John Deaton received 4,223 votes (24 percent). Warren received 60 percent of the vote in Massachusetts.

In Tuesday’s other contested race, Maria Curtatone received 11,858 votes in Watertown, 67.5 percent, and William “Billy” Tauro got 3,248 votes (18.5 percent).

Ballot Questions

On Question 1, calling for an audit of the State Legislature, 66 percent of Watertown voters cast a “yes’ vote, or 11,699 votes. The Yes vote won statewide with 71.5 percent.

Fifty-six percent of the votes in Watertown voters, 9,887, supported “yes” on the Question 2, which removes the MCAS as a graduation requirement. Nearly 60 percent of Massachusetts voters cast yes votes.

The ballot question which would allow ride-app unionization, Question 3, received 10,400 yes votes in Watertown, 59 percent. Statewide the “yes” side received 54 percent of the vote.

The closest vote was on Question 4, which would allow limited use of natural psychedelics. In Watertown 8,541 (48.6 percent) of people voted yes, and 8,233 voted no (47 percent). The ballot measure was defeated with 57 percent of Massachusetts voters voting No.

The vote on paying tipped-workers a minimum wage, Question 5, was the only ballot measure opposed by a majority of Watertown voters. The No side received 9,071 votes (51.7 percent) and 7,726 people voted yes (44 percent). Sixty-four percent of Massachusetts voters cast a No vote.

Question 6, which was on the ballot for Precincts 9 to 12 (the 10th Middlesex District represented by John Lawn), 3,598 people (61 percent) supported the non-binding ballot question calling for the State Representative to support universal health care. A majority of voters in the 10th Middlesex, which represents parts of Watertown, Waltham, and Newton, supported Question 6 with 61 percent voting yes.

See Watertown’s precinct-by-precinct totals below. Unofficial-Results-11052024-Watertown

10 thoughts on “See How Watertown Voted for President, Senate & on Ballot Questions in 2024

  1. “voter turn out was 66 percent in 2024”
    “Harris/Walz received nearly 62 percent of the vote”
    Disappointing that so many people did not see the need and importance to vote.
    Also that Harris only received 62% That means that there are around 40% of Mass voters who would prefer a convicted criminal and traitor to a person with a history of upholding the rule of law.
    The forthcoming damage to our country may be far higher than the deaths from the mishandling of COVID by the new dictator elect.
    More people in America died from the down play of COVID than all the wars from Vietnam to the present day.
    God help America.

    • Harris’s margin of 25% in Mass was third largest in the nation, and that’s not enough? Watertown gave her a 53% advantage. It was an election, which is how democracies decide who governs. Maybe not around here, but nationally a lot of people apparently think God did help America.

      • Right. But many will never acknowledge that four years of awful policies [and putting unpopular candidates in a losing ticket] is the reason why they lost. Bigly.

        • As the numbers trickle in, it becomes more apparent that Trump improved his standing across almost all demographic groups. Blacks, Latinos, Jews, etc.—they can’t all be “fascists”. But to David’s original point, Massachusetts stood resolute against… 31 other states in the union. If one is proud of that, why quibble over percentage points? Break out those 50 year-old bumper stickers that read “Don’t blame me, I live in Massachusetts.”

          • Were those stickers created after the 1972 presidential election when the losing candidate, McGovern, got a mere 17% of the electoral vote with MA contributing 14% and DC 3%?

    • We, humans are responsible for all the good and evil things we do or don’t do. We are god and the devil because neither exists.

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