There were some close races in yesterday’s primary election on the South Shore. Some results are still not known because early voting ballots in some communities have not been tabulated.
Ken Sweezey narrowly defeated Jane Cournan in the Sixth Plymouth District Republican state senate race. Sweezey garnered 1839 or 52 percent of the votes to Couran’s 1648 or 47 percent.
As of one AM today, Kari MacRae was leading Mathew Muratore by just over one thousand votes for the Plymouth and Barnstable Republican state senate race.
Kari MacRae spoke to WATD News at her campaign headquarters.
During last night’s live primary election coverage, WATD political analyst John Creed explains to anchor Christine James why early voting ballots have delayed some of the results.
In the First Plymouth Democratic four-way representative race Michelle Badger was leading Scott Hokanson, Arthur Desloges, and Stephen Michael Palmer as of early this morning.
Badger spoke to WATD News last night as she awaited the numbers.
In the three-way Plymouth County Commissioners race, democrats Greg Hanley and Rhonda Nyman were the two top vote getters over Scott Vecchi.
Hanley went over some of the early results for WATD.
John Deaton handily won the republican congressional senate race defeating Robert Antonellis and Ian Cain. Deaton will face Democrat incumbent Elizabeth Warren in November.
Unofficial Primary Night Results, Contested Races:
First Plymouth District (Democrats/State Representative)
Projected Winner: Michelle L. Badger
First Plymouth District (Republicans/State Representative)
Projected Winner: Jesse G. Brown
Plymouth County (Democrats/County Commissioner)
Projected Winners: Gregory M. Hanley & Rhonda L. Nyman
Senator in Congress (Republicans)
Projected Winner: John Deaton
Sixth Plymouth District (Republicans/State Senate)
Projected Winner: Kenneth Peter Sweezey
Plymouth & Barnstable District (Republicans/State Senate)
No Projected Winner, re-count ordered (Kari MacRae vs. Mathew J. Muratore)
Norfolk, Plymouth & Barnstable (Democrats/State Senate)
Projected Winner: William J. Driscoll, Jr.
Eleventh Plymouth District (State Representative)
Projected Winner Rita Mendes
Second Plymouth District (Republicans/State Representative)
Projected Winner: John Robert Gaskey
Eighth District Congress (Republicans)
Projected Winner: Daniel Kelly
