Upcoming Elections
August 26, 2025
Municipal Preliminary Elections
Municipal preliminary elections are held to narrow the field of candidates in November municipal elections. A preliminary election is typically only held if there are enough candidates running for a specific office. Contact your local election office for information about candidates on your ballot.
Below is a list of municipalities holding a preliminary election on August 26:
September 2, 2025
Municipal Preliminary Elections
Municipal preliminary elections are held to narrow the field of candidates in November municipal elections. A preliminary election is typically only held if there are enough candidates running for a specific office. Contact your local election office for information about candidates on your ballot.
Below is a list of municipalities holding a preliminary election on September 2:
- Lynn
- Quincy
September 9, 2025
Municipal Preliminary Elections
Municipal preliminary elections are held to narrow the field of candidates in November municipal elections. A preliminary election is typically only held if there are enough candidates running for a specific office. Contact your local election office for information about candidates on your ballot.
Below is a list of municipalities holding a preliminary election on September 9:
- Boston
- Greenfield
- Haverhill (Wards 4 and 6 only)
- Lowell (Districts 3, 7, and 8 only)
- Springfield (Wards 4, 6, and 7 only)
September 16, 2025
Municipal Preliminary Elections
Municipal preliminary elections are held to narrow the field of candidates in November municipal elections. A preliminary election is typically only held if there are enough candidates running for a specific office. Contact your local election office for information about candidates on your ballot.
Below is a list of municipalities holding a preliminary election on September 16:
- Brockton
- Chelsea (District 4 only)
- Chicopee
- Fall River
- Framingham (District 2 only)
- Gardner
- Gloucester
- Holyoke (Wards 1 and 5 only)
- Lawrence
- Leominster (Ward 5 only)
- Malden (Wards 4 and 6 only)
- Medford
- Methuen (Central District only)
- Newburyport (Ward 6 only)
- Northampton
- Revere (Ward 1 only)
- Salem (Wards 1, 2, 5, and 6 only)
- Somerville
November 4, 2025 – Municipal Election Day
Fifty-five cities and towns in Massachusetts hold biennial municipal elections in November of each odd-numbered year. All other towns annual town elections each spring.
The cities and towns below will hold municipal elections on November 4. Contact your local election office for more information about your upcoming local election.
- Agawam
- Amesbury
- Amherst
- Attleboro
- Barnstable
- Beverly
- Boston
- Braintree
- Brockton
- Cambridge
- Chelsea
- Chicopee
- Easthampton
- Everett
- Fall River
- Fitchburg
- Framingham
- Franklin
- Gardner
- Gloucester
- Greenfield
- Haverhill
- Holyoke
- Lawrence
- Leominster
- Lowell
- Lynn
- Malden
- Marlborough
- Medford
- Melrose
- Methuen
- New Bedford
- Newburyport
- Newton
- North Adams
- Northampton
- Peabody
- Pittsfield
- Quincy
- Randolph
- Revere
- Salem
- Saugus
- Somerville
- Springfield
- Taunton
- Waltham
- Watertown
- West Springfield
- Westfield
- Weymouth
- Winthrop
- Woburn
- Worcester