The Town of Nahant’s unofficial results from Wednesday afternoon showed a voter turnout of 81.5% — 2,316 of the 2,841 registered voters. Residents voted in against the winning Republican ticket. Of the 2,316 votes cast for the presidential ticket, 61% were cast for Harrs/Waltz and only 36% for Trump/Vance. This aligned with the results from the 2020 Presidential Election, during which residents voted heavily in favor of the Democratic ticket.
Residents voted to re-elect Warren to the Senate over Deaton this year.
Similarly to Lynnfield and Marblehead, residents aligned with the rest of the Commonwealth for four of the five ballot questions, but differed in their opinion of question three, which passed and will allow for ride-share drivers to form labor unions. A ‘yes’ vote received only 1,080 and lost to the ‘no’ vote by just 11 votes — just 0.5% of the 2,171 residents who voted on question three.
Jayne Deslauriers said she has voted in almost every year since she became an eligible voter and prefers to vote in person.
“Obviously voting is important, even if you’re in a state that seems like a foregone conclusion,” she said.
She said she was registered as a Democrat and recently switched to Independent.
“Some of the fiscal policies are going a little too far off the left for me progressively,” Deslauriers said.
Paticia Karras said she prefers voting in person rather than mail-in ballots.
“I think there’s a lot of anxiety around this election… I think it’s a very uncertain time and a lot of people want to know who’s winning the election in a timely manner,” Paticia Karras said. “I worry about violence depending on what the outcome is.”