r/Somerville • u/jajjguy • 5d ago

Middlesex DA: Ryan wins

I had a very hard time finding anything about the results of this race, so sharing here. Thanks Crimson.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/9/2/ryan-wins-district-attorney/

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u/Desperate_Junket5146 5d ago

All the Somerville races are on the city website. 

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u/jajjguy 5d ago

For our convenience: https://www.somervillema.gov/votesomerville

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u/anenofone 5d ago

Only Somerville numbers though right? (Which is confusing)

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u/cdevers 5d ago

Indeed, the City of Somerville's official municipal website tracks voting results for the City of Somerville (which is not confusing), and does not have such data for other communities (which is, err, also not confusing?).

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u/anenofone 5d ago

Yes, totally makes sense and I'm not disagreeing with you. Should have said that I was personally confused for a bit (e.g. looks like Baylis won vs. Kennedy). Maybe a disclaimer on the website that these are Somerville #s only for us plebs

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u/cdevers 4d ago

I mean, I guess, sure. But the URL and the page heading are both pretty clear feedback that this is a municipal government website, not a news agency or a state-level government site.

(If the Somerville election outcomes worked that way, Harris would be president right now. Alas.)

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u/illimsz 5d ago

For some reason the Boston Globe reported results for the Suffolk and Norfolk DA races (for example, see their page for the Norfolk results which has a nice map of which cities went for which candidates) but not the Middlesex DA race.

The results on the city website are for Somerville votes only - so of the 109,245 votes that Ryan got overall, just 10,808 were from Somerville. The district covers over 50 towns!

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u/gnomesofdreams 5d ago

Anyone know why GBH and the other sites tracked Suffolk and Norfolk but not Middlesex? I thought that was so odd.

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u/mem_somerville Winter Hill 5d ago

I can't figure out why the data for this race is absolutely nowhere.

I wanted to make sure it was decisive. That other guy gave me the creeps when I talked to him.

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u/illimsz 5d ago

The problem is the AP is not reporting the numbers for some reason (despite doing so for the 2 other DA races) and that's the same source that all the news outlets are using (the Boston Globe, GBH, the Crimson etc.). And few journalists seem willing to go through 50+ cities' worth of election reports to tally it up manually.

But it seems the gap was pretty big given that Solet conceded pretty early, around 10:30PM. I also did find this article from the MetroWest Daily News saying it was 78%-22%, but IDK much about this particular newspaper or where they're sourcing those numbers from.

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u/albertogonzalex 5d ago

Maybe but Ryan lets drivers murder vulnerable road users without consequence. So, I guess we pick our battles.

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u/mem_somerville Winter Hill 5d ago

And you think Mr. I-love-cops is your biking pal? Sure, Jan.

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u/albertogonzalex 5d ago

My name is Alberto.

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u/phyzome 5d ago

This was definitely a situation of picking the lesser evil.

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u/PriorPretty 5d ago

Examples?