2025 Municipal Election Unofficial Results - November 7th Update

The following results are unofficial as of Friday, November 7, 2025. Write-in and auxiliary ballots are included in the results; provisional and mailed overseas absentee ballots are not included. The results may change as a result of votes cast on provisional ballots and mailed overseas absentee ballots, which will be counted on November 14, as required by state law. No results are final, and no candidate can be declared elected until all ballots have been counted and the Election Commission announces the official results.

City Council unofficial results in order of election:

Sumbul Siddiqui
Marc C. McGovern
Ayah A. Al-Zubi
Catherine Zusy
Burhan Azeem
Jivan G. Sobrinho-Wheeler
Timothy R. Flaherty
E. Denise Simmons
Patricia M. Nolan

Count-by-Count City Council Results

School Committee unofficial results in order of election:

Elizabeth Hudson
Richard N. Harding, Jr.
Luisa de Paula Santos
Caitlin E. Dube
Arjun Kent Jaikumar
David J. Weinstein

Count-by-Count School Committee Results

Ballot Question: "Shall an Act Establishing a new Charter for the City of Cambridge be accepted?" 

Yes        18,406
No         5,899
Blank   1,036
Total     25,341

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Statement Regarding Cambridge Municipal Election Preliminary Unofficial Results From November 4th

The Cambridge Election Commission conducts rigorous and mandatory prequalified testing for every election. Through its proactive auditing process, the Election Commission determined that ballots used for testing were not fully cleared from the Election Management System by the vendor in advance of the Municipal Election on November 4, 2025.

As a result, the preliminary unofficial results for the 2025 Municipal Election that were released early November 5 included both the ballots processed election night and the test ballots, which produced 2,158 additional records (632 for the City Council, 1,370 for the School Committee, and 156 for the Ballot Question).

The Election Commission has since removed all test ballots and retabulated the unofficial election results, which also now includes ballots counted Wednesday, November 5 through Friday, November 7.

With the updated Count-by-Count Unofficial results and the removal of the test ballots, there has been a change in the announced candidates from Friday’s School Committee unofficial results versus what was originally announced as part of the unofficial preliminary results late Tuesday night.  There have been no changes to the named candidates in the City Council unofficial results or the yes vote in support of the ballot question.

Preliminary unofficial results are made available by the Election Commission to the community, media organizations, and other interested individuals as soon as they are available on Election Night. However, results are subject to change as additional ballots are counted and tallies are confirmed through a series of checks and balances. As a result of this thorough auditing process, a discrepancy associated with the test ballots was discovered.