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Updated Nov. 6, 2024, 7:20 p.m.
While Donald Trump won the Presidential race Tuesday, Massachusetts voters picked Kamala Harris 61.6% to Trump’s 36.2% in the state, and Sudbury voters were even more in favor of Harris, 73.4% to Trump’s 22.3% in the town.
In the contested race for Sudbury State Representative, Democratic incumbent Carmine Gentile defeated Virginia Gardner, his Republican challenger, 73.4% to 26.6% for the 13th Middlesex District House seat. The total was 18,099 votes for Gentile and 6,568 votes for Gardner in the district, which includes all of Sudbury plus parts of Concord, Lincoln, Wayland and Marlborough. The Sudbury vote was 7,985 for Gentile and 2,811 for Gardner.
Sudbury voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was down considerably from the 2020 Presidential election, according to data from the Town Clerk. There were 11,520 votes cast, 81.5% of the town’s 14,129 registered voters. In the 2020 election, 89.73% of registered Sudbury voters cast ballots.
Here are the unofficial vote totals. Complete results and a breakdown of the vote by precinct is on the town website.
| President | |
| Kamala Harris and Tim Walz | 8,458 |
| Donald Trump and JD Vance | 2,574 |
| U.S. Senator | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 7,682 |
| John Deaton | 3,544 |
| Representative In Congress | |
| Katherine Clark | 8,775 |
| Councillor, Third District (Governor’s Council) | |
| Mara Dolan | 8,426 |
| State Senator, Middlesex and Worcester District: | |
| James Eldridge | 8,550 |
| State Representative, 13th Middlesex District | |
| Carmine Gentile | 7,985 |
| Virginia Gardner | 2,811 |
| Clerk of Courts | |
| Michael A. Sullivan | 8,368 |
On the five ballot questions, Sudbury voters differed from the statewide total on ballot question 2, to eliminate the MCAS test as a graduation requirement. Sudbury voted no on that question, but it passed with a yes vote statewide.
Sudbury reflected the statewide vote on the other four ballot questions. In both the town and state, ballot question 1, to audit the legislature, and ballot question 3, to permit rideshare drivers to unionize, passed with yes votes. Ballot question 4 to legalize certain psychedelics and ballot question 5 on tipped employees and the minimum wage were defeated with no votes by both Sudbury and state voters.
Here’s how Sudbury voted on the ballot questions:
| Question 1 legislature audit | Yes 7,452 | No 3,256 |
| Question 2 MCAS requirement | Yes 5,400 | No 5,875 |
| Question 3 rideshare unions | Yes 5,612 | No 5,258 |
| Question 4 psychedelics | Yes 4,283 | No 6,814 |
| Question 5 tipping | Yes 4,430 | No 6,662 |
These results are unofficial, pending certification by the town clerk after processing any provisional ballots and after receipt of mail ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 5 and received by Nov. 8, and overseas military ballots which can be received up to Nov. 15.
Nancy Brumback is a freelance reporter who lives in Sudbury.
This article has been updated based on new information from the Town Clerk’s office on Nov. 6, 2024, at 3:17 p.m., changing the total number of registered voters in Sudbury to 14,129 from an earlier listing of 14,498 and the turnout to 81.5% from 79.5%.
