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Analysis of the 2023 municipal election results in western Massachusetts

Voter turnout was light during the morning hours at this polling place inside the Rebecca Johnson Elementary school in Springfield for the 2023 preliminary municipal election.
Paul Tuthill
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WAMC
Voter turnout was light during the morning hours at this polling place inside the Rebecca Johnson Elementary school in Springfield for the 2023 preliminary municipal election.

Except in Greenfield, it was good to be an incumbent mayor

The dust has settled from this week’s municipal elections up-and-down the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.

Incumbent mayors, for the most part, fared very well.

To analyze the election results, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Matt Szafranski, Editor-in-Chief of Western Massachusetts Politics & Insight.

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