Framingham City Council Election Results: 1 Incumbent, 2 New Faces Win

FRAMINGHAM, MA — Unofficial results from Framingham have been released for the contested City Council races in Districts 2, 8 and 9.

City officials shared that Tracey Bryant has won re-election in District 9 while Leslie White Harvey and Brandon Ward won in District 8 and 2, respectively.

City officials said Ward received 80 percent of the vote and Bryant received 74 percent of the vote. The count was closer in District 8, where White Harvey won by a mark of 274 to 255.

All other city councilors were running unopposed in this election cycle.

Officials also announced around 10 p.m. that incumbent Library Trustees Annabel Dodd, Bob Dodd and Janet Harrington have been re-elected.

The Library Board will also now feature members Heather Klish, Cynthia MacLean and Julie Wolf.

Check back throughout the night for the latest election results from Framingham.

For more on these races, read below:

Contested Races

Framingham had City Council, School Committee, Library Trustee and Cemetery Trustee races on the ballot, but only two districts on the City Council were contested, along with the Library Trustee race.

Jose Ferreira and Tracey Bryant are in contention for the District 9 Councilor seat while Leslie S. White Harvey and John Augusto Stefanini ran in District 8.

District 9

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the District 9 race came before November, when Jose Ferreira, who initially said he would be dropping out of the race, won a spot on the ballot Tuesday over candidate Albert Cimino.

Ferreira was the second leading vote-getter in September's preliminary election, which featured a diminutive turnout.

"I'm surprised," Ferreira said during a phone call the night of his preliminary victory. "To be honest I really did not think it would go this way."

"You know, today we didn't even vote for us," he said of him and his wife.

Incumbent Tracey Bryant garnered most of the votes during that preliminary election, and the expectation is that she will win reelection on Tuesday.

Bryant was endorsed unanimously at the Framingham Democratic Committee's Oct. 5 meeting. If elected, she would serve a third term on the City Council.

“I am leading District 9 residents into the future we need. The Framingham Democratic Committee has been steadfast in their support of my goal to improve the quality of life in District 9. I am proud and honored to have their endorsement because it is backed by their commitment to continued collaboration and advocacy,” said Bryant.

While Bryant and other candidates across the state were showing up to events and campaigning on their own time, Ferreira continued his unique approach to campaigning, which is to say, sort of kind of not campaigning.

"No signs, no knocking on doors, none of that. If my name is not seen enough by doing community service then I shouldn't take the job. Somebody else deserves the job," Ferreira said about his approach.

Yeah, District 9 was pretty weird this election season.