Winners in the primary election on Cape Cod and the Islands: state representative, senator

On Cape Cod , Massachusetts state primary election results were decided by a little over 20% of each town's registered voters, according to unofficial results the Cape Cod Times received from 15 town clerks.

Turnout, which included day of and early ballots, ranged from 20.7% in Chatham to a 27% in Orleans. Morning voting was especially slow across the Cape with poll workers usually exceeding the number of voters at polling stations from Bourne to Provincetown.

In Yarmouth 25 people turned out to vote in the first hour of polling, according to Assistant Town Clerk Susan Regan. By noon 485 people had shown up to vote.

“We started out real slow,” she said.

That sentiment was echoed by clerks in Dennis, Harwich, Chatham, Mashpee and Sandwich.

“Why rush to the polls?" asked Mashpee Town Clerk Deborah Kaye. "You can vote by mail at your leisure.”

Who won state representative, state senate races for Cape Cod?

The state representative race for Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket Counties pit Democrats Thomas Moakley and Arielle Faria against each other.

With 97.62% of votes counted, Moakley (56.7%) was ahead of Faria (43.3%), 3,460 to 2,645.

Moakley won 79.4% of Barnstable County and 60.2% of Nantucket County. Faria took Duke’s County with 60.3% of the vote.

Early unofficial results show Republican Mathew Muratore slightly ahead of Republican Kari MacRae in the race for the state senate seat for Barnstable and Plymouth. With 98.99% of the vote, Muratore garnered 50.2%, or 6,978 votes. MacRae had 49.8%, or 6,928 votes as of Wednesday morning.

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Barnstable Board of Regional Commissioners

With two open seats on the Barnstable Board of Regional Commissioners, and two Democrats and two Republicans running in the primary, all four candidates will move to the general election.

Democratic incumbents Sheila Lyons and Mark Forest took in 22,906 and 19,612 votes respectively according to unofficial results from the Cape's 15 towns.

Republican challengers Ronald Beaty Jr. And Cynthia Stead garnered 9,889 and 8,121 votes respectively.

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren won her primary easily. She’ll face Republican John Deaton in the general election. Deaton beat out Republicans Robert Antonellis and Ian Cain in every county in Tuesday’s primary. Early unofficial results showed Deaton winning 64.9%, or 132,986 votes.

There were no Libertarian candidates on the ballot in any of the races across the Cape.

Denise Coffey writes about business, tourism and issues impacting the Cape’s residents and visitors. Contact her at dcoffey@capecodonline.com .

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