Unofficial Hingham State Election Results Now Available
November 4, 2026 By Carol Britton Meyer
There were two ballots for the Hingham November 3 Election – the state one listing the candidates for office and nine binding statewide ballot questions and a separate one featuring the two debt exclusion questions related to approving funding for the proposed Plymouth River and South School roof projects (which have preliminarily passed at the polls: see related article here).
The nine ballot questions relate to the construction of single-family homes, reducing the minimum lot size requirements in places with sufficient infrastructure and under certain local regulations; expanding the public records law; state primary elections; election day registration; state revenue limit & rebate; a natural resource conservation fund; collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services employees; prohibiting the retail sale of adult recreational use marijuana; and firearms regulation. (See below for more details.)
Ballot Question Results
The Hingham results for the ballot questions are as follows:
* Question 1 – expanding the public records law – YES (958 Yes vs. 120 No)
* Question 2 – collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services employees – YES (750 Yes vs. 293 No)
* Question 3 – state primary elections – NO (472 Yes vs. 604 No)
* Question 4 – election day registration – YES (540 Yes vs. 509 No)
* Question 5 – state revenue limit & rebate – NO (380 Yes vs. 643 No)
* Question 6 – Natural Resources Conservation Fund –YES (700 Yes vs. 333 No)
* Question 7 – single-family homes – YES (564 Yes vs. 475 No)
* Question 8 – prohibit retail sale of adult recreational use marijuana – NO (349 Yes vs. 735 No)
* Question 9 – firearms regulation – YES (941 Yes vs 141 No)
State Candidate Results
The Hingham results for the candidate questions are as follows:
Senator in Congress: Edward J. Markey
Governor and Lt. Governor: Maura Healey and Kim Driscoll
Attorney General: Andrea Joy Campbell
Secretary of State: William Francis Galvin
Treasurer: Deborah B. Goldberg
Auditor: Diana DiZoglio
Representative in Congress: Stephen F. Lynch
Governors Councilor: Christopher A. Iannella, Jr.
Senator in General Court: Patrick M. O’Connor
Representative in General Court: Joan Meschino
District Attorney: Timothy J. Cruz
Register of Probate: Matthew Joseph McDonough
County Treasurer: Thomas J. O’Brien
County Commissioner: Rhonda L. Nyman
According to an email from Town Clerk, Carol Falvey, “These unofficial election results include only the ballots that have been counted by an electronic tabulator. They do not include any hand-counted ballots, provisional ballots, or write-in votes for specific individuals. These results are unofficial and subject to change as additional ballots are received and counted. Mail-in State ballots postmarked by Election Day may be counted if received within 3 days of Election Day.”
Official results are expected to be available no later than November 18 and posted on the Town of Hingham website, here: https://www.hingham-ma.gov/413/Ballots-Warrants-Results
Go to https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/research-and-statistics/2026-information-for-voters/2026-ballot-question2.htm for information about the ballot questions and also the red voter guide that was mailed to all Massachusetts voters.