Healey Seeks a Second Term as Massachusetts Chooses Its Governor Tuesday
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey faces Republican Mike Minogue in Tuesday's general election, the marquee statewide contest on the Massachusetts ballot.
Massachusetts voters will decide Tuesday whether Gov. Maura Healey gets a second term. The Democratic incumbent, a former state attorney general who took office in January 2023, faces Republican Mike Minogue, a businessman who won his party's nomination in the September primary.
The governor's race tops a statewide ballot that also includes the other constitutional offices and a U.S. Senate contest, along with the ballot questions Massachusetts voters are accustomed to sorting through — one reason election officials suggest reviewing a sample ballot before arriving at the polls.
For Boston voters, the mechanics are the same as the rest of the Commonwealth: polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, most voters will not need to show ID, and anyone in line by 8 p.m. can vote. Mail ballots should be hand-delivered to a local election office or drop box by 8 p.m. to be certain they count.
The governor's office matters to the city in concrete ways: state aid, the MBTA's finances, housing policy and the state budget all run through the corner office on Beacon Hill. Whoever wins Tuesday will negotiate with a Legislature that has its own ideas, which is the normal and intended condition of Massachusetts government.
Results will begin to take shape after polls close at 8 p.m. This desk will follow the returns Tuesday night; the only forecast offered here is that turnout, as always in a midterm, will be decided by the voters who made a plan and kept it.
