Herewith, the complete results of the 2019 Newton municipal elections as compiled from the city’s unofficial results page.
| Ward 1 | |||||
| Ward | Maria Scibelli Greenberg | 798 | Allan Ciccone | 451 | |
| At-large | Jay Ciccone | 7,832 | |||
| Alison Leary | 7,690 | ||||
| School | Bridget Ray-Canada | 7,081 | |||
| Ward 2 | |||||
| Ward | Emily Norton | 1,407 | Bryan Barash | 1,313 | |
| At-large | Jake Auchincloss | 7,798 | Tarik Lukas | 5,212 | |
| Susan Albright | 7,674 | Jennifer Bentley | 4,263 | ||
| School | Margaret Albright | 7,174 | |||
| Ward 3 | |||||
| Ward | Julie Malakie | 1,119 | Carolina Ventura | 898 | |
| At-large | Andrea Kelley | 8,174 | Jim Cote | 5,453 | |
| Pam Wright | 6,129 | ||||
| School | Anping Shen | 7,046 | |||
| Ward 4 | |||||
| Ward | Chris Markiewicz | 990 | |||
| At-large | Lenny Gentile | 7,189 | |||
| Josh Krintzman | 6,989 | ||||
| School | Tamika Olszewski | 8,512 | Alexander Koifman | 2,586 | |
| Ward 5 | |||||
| Ward | Bill Humphrey | 974 | Kathy Winters | 940 | |
| At-large | Deb Crossley | 7,935 | Paul Coletti | 5,212 | |
| Andreae Downs | 7,774 | ||||
| School | Emily Prenner | 8,482 | Lev Agronovich | 2,502 | |
| Ward 6 | |||||
| Ward | Brenda Noel | 1,269 | Lisa Gordon | 912 | |
| At-large | Vicki Danberg | 7,460 | Greg Schwartz | 6,712 | |
| Alicia Bowman | 6,742 | ||||
| School | Ruth Goldman | 7,988 | Galina Rosenblit | 3,060 | |
| Ward 7 | |||||
| Ward | Lisle Baker | 720 | |||
| At-large | Becky Walker Grossman | 7,231 | |||
| Marc Laredo | 7,050 | ||||
| School | K. Burdette Shields | 6,666 | |||
| Ward 8 | |||||
| Ward | Holly Ryan | 765 | |||
| At-large | Rick Lipof | 6,779 | |||
| David Kalis | 6,710 | ||||
| School | Matthew Miller | 7,183 |
Thanks Sean for personing the Village 14 election desk this evening. Fascinating results with a lot to analyze.
We can fight amongst ourselves, but it is important that the 3 candidates from the ironically named Americans for Peace and Tolerance got crushed. Please go away!
Big shout out to Sean for a great job of covering tonight’s elections single handedly with a dozen posts while Greg Reibman and Gail Spector were doing NewTV coverage.
I would have like to help but I had the equally challenging assignment of hanging out and having a pint at a packed Dunn Gaherins full of winning and losing candidates with results popping up on the TV screens. It was a great scene with winners being congratulated, and losers being consoled.
… and so it happen again. Some newcomers were elected, some incumbents get unseated, some surprises along the way, and tomorrow we begin again. Thanks to all the candidates. It’s a long grueling trip. Whether you won or lost we all benefit from your efforts, so thanks.
Great job, Sean. Thank you.
Not a bad night for Vibrant Newton: 7/7 among at-large councilors (1/1 among non-incumbents) and 3/5 among ward councilors (1/3 among non-incumbents).
Bravo to first time candidate, and new School Committee member, Tamika Olszewski for garnering the most votes city-wide with 8,512 votes! This is
a huge win. Clearly her experience and goals for improvements at NPS resonated with voters throughout Newton.
Random observation:
Most votes received in an uncontested election goes to Jay Ciccone (7832), followed by Becky Walker Grossman (7231).
I’m not sure what, if any, significance that has. Maybe their supporters like to signal their support, regardless of it having any effect on their outcome … or maybe their supporters just enjoy filling out those ovals with a Sharpie. I know I do ;-)
2@John White. I recall that one of Americans for Peace and Tolerance stating that he hoped they would bring the City together on the issues they were advocating for. They did, but not in the way they intended.
According to someone who worked at the polls yesterday, the layout of the ballot was very confusing to voters who are already baffled by a complex electoral system we political junkies have no difficulty understanding. The front of the ballot included every contest for at-large councilor and the Ward 1 School Committee race. The rest of the School Committee contests were on the back page with the contest for ward councilor almost hidden in the far bottom right of the ballot. Wouldn’t things have been less confusing if the ward councilor race led the first page of the ballot followed by all of the at-large council contests? Every City Council race would have fit on that first page and the entire back page could have been devoted to the School Committee races. There was a write in campaign in Ward 5 and I’ve heard that a lot of write in stickers were affixed to the wrong place in the ballot.
@Bob Burke, I read earlier on V14 that it is a state rule that all city-wide contests are listed before any ward-based contests. Odd, I know. I have gotten used to our ballots, but Newton’s system asks a great deal of our citizens. It is not easy to know who is who. I print out a sheet of my votes just to keep the names straight!
Best wishes,
John
Brava also to first time candidate, and new School Committee member, Emily Prenner Olszewski for garnering the second-most votes city-wide with 8,482 votes!
Ruth Goldman the incumbent head of the School Committee was also in the top vote gatherers.
Horace Mann champion & write-in Julia Gaeber got almost 1000 votes — on a 3-day campaign.
The voters have very clearly spoken, schools are their #1 priority.
Development gets a lot of press, but it’s schools that got the most voters out in the drizzly rain.
Congrats to all!
Tired typo alert: Obviously meant Emily Prenner.