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The results of Sudbury’s Annual Town Election came in on Monday night. They were decisive, and they made some history.
Lisa Kouchakdjian was reelected to the Select Board with 66.6% of the vote—a dominant performance, and a significant gain on her last election, which was a 54.5% performance in 2022.
Kouchakdjian’s vote share on Monday is the strongest Sudbury Weekly could find in a contested Select Board race dating back to 2000, with one exception…
Radha Gargeya hauled in 69.6% of the vote on Monday—the strongest performance in a contested Select Board race since 2000.
For any historians out there who want to compare the results to the 1990’s – John Drobinski outperformed Gargeya and Kouchakdjian’s 2025 results back in 1999. That year he gobbled up 74.5% of the vote. Sudbury Weekly did a cursory review of the 1980’s election data and didn’t find any stronger performance in a contested race for Select Board than Drobinski in 1999.
Gargeya’s former colleague on the Lincoln-Sudbury (L-S) School Committee, Jack Ryan, was also on the ballot for the L-S School Committee on Monday. Ryan last ran for that office in 2007. He captured 63.5% of the Sudbury vote in that election. Nearly two decades later, he slightly improved upon his performance with 63.7% of the Sudbury vote. Sudbury Weekly was unable to find another example of a candidate returning to an elected position they previously held with a comparable delta between the two terms.
Turnout was interesting. 2,410 voters turned out this year. That’s down by roughly 1,000 voters from the last two years. However, a Sudbury Public Schools override was on the ballot in 2023, which likely drove turnout. In 2024, the State automatically sent registered voters an application for mail ballots, resulting in 3,628 Sudbury voters receiving a mail ballot, and 1,685 voting by mail in the 2024 Town Election. That certainly helped turnout in 2024. But 2025 was actually a bit stronger than typical turnout from 2019 to 2022, which hovered in the 2,200-2,350 range.
Precincts 1 and 2 had the strongest turnout (503 and 509 respectively), which is consistent with the general trend in recent years. Precincts 3 and 6 had the lowest turnout, with Precinct 3 dropping precipitously from 458 voters in 2024 to 284 in 2025.
For all that was new or precedent-setting this year, one thing held constant. Carol Bradford, who was reelected to the Board of Health on Monday, received the most votes of any candidate… something she has done in all but one of her runs since she was first elected in 2010.