By Bob Katzen
The Governor’s Council certified the results of the election of Massachusetts’s eleven electors for the offices of U.S. president and vice-president. All 50 states have to certify their votes in the federal election and send them to Congress to be counted before the Electoral College gathers on December 17 to cast their state’s electoral votes to make President-elect Donald Trump’s victory official.
Preliminary results show Harris received more than 61 percent of the Massachusetts vote and Trump won 36.5 percent. Secretary of State Bill Galvin’s office announced that 3,512,866 Massachusetts voters participated in the Nov. 5 election, representing the second highest number of ballots cast in Massachusetts history, just behind the 3,657,972 ballots cast in 2020.
“I … want to commend the secretary of state’s office for their continued perfect administration of elections here in the commonwealth,” said Gov. Healey. “We thank you for your work in this election and all elections.”
“The turnout in Massachusetts appears to reflect a national trend, with a significant drop in participation in several of our cities, especially those with larger minority populations, and a slightly smaller rise in turnout in the more rural and suburban areas of the state,” said Galvin.