With the election results in, Reminder Publishing connected with cities and towns represented in The Herald to see how their votes broke down. These communities mostly voted against what ended up being the outcome of the presidential election and featured additional state races and ballot questions.
Chicopee
Chicopee voters had a 56% turnout with Vice President Kamala Harris receiving just over half the total ballots cast with 12,570 votes, and 11,223 votes going to President-elect Donald Trump. In 2020 the city saw a 66.4% turnout as 25,861 voters came out, a little more than a thousand compared to this year.
The race for senator went in favor for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) as she received 53.1% of the vote compared to her Republican opponent John Deaton who received 46.6.%.
For this year’s ballot questions, Chicopee voters voted yes on Questions 1 through 3, and no on Questions 4 and 5, which reflects how voters across the state ultimately decided.
Granby
Granby voters had the most contested race of The Herald communities as they voted just in favor of Trump 1,917 to 1,912. The town saw a total of 3971 voters in this election, a 76.5% turnout rate.
The town was also the lone Herald community to vote in favor of Deaton opposed to Warren. Deaton received 2,052 votes to Warren’s 1,796.
Former state Rep. Dan Carey (D-Easthampton) was elected to the Clerk of Courts in an uncontested race, and Mary Olberding was elected as Register of Deeds.
Granby voters also voted yes on Questions 1 and 2, but no on Questions 3 through 5. Question 3, a proposed law to provide transportation network drivers with the right to form unions, was the closest vote as 1,897 voted no to 1,815 voted yes. 246 ballots were left blank on this question.
Holyoke
The Paper City saw a 48.22% turnout for this year’s election, a 10% decrease from 2020. Holyokers voted in favor of Harris 9,277 to 4,890 for Trump.
The outcome of the city’s votes on the ballot questions also reflected the outcome statewide.
Unique to Holyoke on their ballot was a Question 6, a proposal to reduce the city’s Community Preservation Act surcharge tax rate from 1.5% down to 1%. Voters voted in favor of the reduction.
The vote saw 8,744 votes for a reduction compared to 4,419 who voted to kept the rate the same. There were 1,467 ballots that left this question blank.
The CPA Committee uses CPA funds to complete projects of historic and cultural significance, as well as recreation in the city.
South Hadley
Of the 9,674 voters from South Hadley Harris won about a third of their support with 6,062 votes to Trump’s 3,334.
South Hadley’s voters matched the state outcomes on this year’s ballot questions. The most contested ballot question was Question 3 where 5,112 voted yes and 4,117 voted no.
