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Brendan Fitzpatrick

March 6, 2024

Official Primary Results: Group 1 Wins FDC Race, Biden and Trump Top Local Ballots

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FRAMINGHAM - UPDATE: 4:16 p.m. on 3/6/24: The Framingham City Clerk's office has published the official results from Tuesday's primary elections. They can be found by clicking here.

The original story posted on the unofficial results can be found below in its entirety. The official results do not reflect any changes to outcomes, though vote tallies are different than what was published in the unofficial results.

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The unofficial results from Super Tuesday’s primary elections in Framingham are in.

Unofficial data from the City Clerk’s office as of the time of publication shows that there were 11,183 voters in Framingham who submitted ballots for the primaries. That represents about 26% of the 43,175 registered voters in the city. 7,119 voters submitted Democratic ballots, while 3,966 submitted Republican ballots and 98 submitted Libertarian ballots.

The most notable race within the city was the contest for the Framingham Democratic Committee (FDC), which supports and promotes the local, state, and national levels of the Democratic Party. Over 50 names spread across a pair of coalitions, named Group 1 and Group 2, were in the running to comprise the 35-member committee.

The unofficial results show that Group 1 secured 3,169 notes as a collective, compared to 1,136 votes for Group 2. Voters were permitted to mix and match their allocation of 35 selections; they did not have to choose one group or the other.

All 34 members of Group 1 were elected into the FDC on Tuesday, with the final seat going to Group 2 member and State Representative for the 6th Middlesex District Priscila Sousa. Her 1,818 votes were enough to secure the 35th spot on the committee, with Chair of Framingham’s Strategic Initiatives and Financial Oversight Committee (SIFOC) Mary Kate Feeneyand At-Large City Councilor George King receiving the next two-highest tallies of 1,729 and 1,673 respectively.

On the national scale, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured the most votes in Framingham within their parties for the presidential primaries.

5,927 people within the city who opted for a Democratic ballot voted for Biden on Super Tuesday, while 518 voted “No Preference,” according to the unofficial results. No other Democratic presidential candidate in Framingham got more than U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 3rd District Dean Phillips’ 288 votes.

Meanwhile, unofficial data shows that 2,016 Republican primary voters in Framingham voted for Trump and 1,786 voted for former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley. Haley announced on Wednesday, March 6 that she has suspended her campaign, leaving Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee for president for the third consecutive time.

60 of the 98 Libertarian ballots cast in Framingham had either a write-in candidate for president or “No Preference” selected.

In addition to being a part of the victorious Group 1 in the FDC race, State Representative for the 7th Middlesex District Jack Patrick Lewis was elected as State Committee Man for the Democratic Party in the Middlesex and Norfolk District, while Hopkinton Select Board member Mary Jo LaFreniere was chosen as the Democratic State Committee Woman for the district.

As for the State Committee election for the GOP in the Middlesex and Norfolk District, Natick resident Nicholas Blaize Miceli and Medway resident Leanne J. Yarosz-Harris were voted as State Committee Man and Woman respectively.

All four of the State Committee races locally for the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were uncontested. The Libertarian Party did not have any local candidates for the State Committee on their ballot.

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