Lexington, MA, Residents hold campaign signs along Massachusetts Ave. in Lexington Center on election day on March 3, 2025
Residents hold campaign signs along Massachusetts Ave. in Lexington Center on election day on March 3, 2025. / Photo Credit: Maggie Scales

The preliminary results for Lexington’s annual town election are in. 

Of the 23,081 voters in town, 6,151, or 27 percent, voted in this year’s town election. That’s a lot of civic engagement — compare that to 2023, when only nine percent of registered voters turned out for local elections, or 2021, when 12 percent voted. (Last year’s local election had a 35 percent turnout, but was held on the same day as the presidential primary, which tends to drive voters to the polls). 

In the races for major office, many incumbents won their seats back. Joe Pato gained 3,420 votes, securing him a seat on the Select Board for his fifth term in a row. Vineeta Kumar beat out Dawn McKenna and Patrick Mehr with 3,309 votes for the other available seat on the Board. 

Incumbents Larry Freeman and Eileen Jay will also return to the School Committee. Freeman, who will return for his second term, secured 3,572 votes and Jay, who will return for her third, tallied 3,774. Sarah Carter, who ran unopposed for a two-year seat, will also join the Committee. Lana Panasyuk did not secure a seat. 

Tina McBride beat Tom Shiple for a seat on the Planning Board with 3,393 votes. 

Deborah Brown ran unopposed for moderator and won. And Richard Perry ran unopposed for the Lexington Housing Authority and won. 

Here is who won seats on Town Meeting: 

Precinct 1

  • Larry Deon Freeman Jr. 
  • Eric Jay Michelson
  • Cristina Ann Burwell
  • Sarah England Carter
  • Valerie Gale Overton
  • Lois Aneglo
  • Charles James 
  • Katherine Reynolds 

Precinct 2

  • Joseph N. Pato
  • Matthew Cohen
  • Rita B. Goldberg
  • Matthew P. Daggett
  • Betsey Weiss
  • Ricki Donna Pappo
  • Ajay T. Joseph

Precinct 3

  • Jeanne K. Krieger
  • Sallye F. Bleiberg
  • Franklin E. Smith
  • Courtney McCollum Apgar
  • Glenn Parker
  • Sudhir K. Jain
  • Prashant Singh
  • James Britton Baldwin 
  • Hua Wang

Precinct 4

  • Gerald Paul
  • Peter Shapiro
  • Wendy K. Manz
  • Carol R. Sacerdote 
  • Sandra J. Shaw
  • Kathryn A Roy

Nyles Nathan Barnert and Linda Boardman Liu tied with 304 votes. Town Meeting will hold a special session where the Precinct 4 members will vote between Barnert and Boardman Liu for the seat, Mary de Alderete, Lexington’s Town Clerk, told LexObserver.

Precinct 5

  • John Zhiqiang Zhao
  • Marilyn Moore Fenollosa
  • M. Masha Traber
  • Andrew Friedlich
  • Monica Karin Davis
  • Melanie Alberta Thompson
  • Jerold Scott Michelson

Precinct 6

  • Sara Gurley Bothwell Allen
  • Dawn E. McKenna
  • Sarah Jasmin Wolfson
  • Jeremy Levitan
  • Deborah Cohen Strod
  • Eran Cohen Strod
  • Margaret L. Counts-Klebe

Precinct 7

  • Monami D. Roy
  • Katherine Blauer
  • Sandra Hackman
  • Robert Kevin Creech
  • Archan Basu
  • Lititia J. Hom
  • Vikas Kinger

Precinct 8

  • Betty J. Gau
  • Alan Mayer Levine 
  • Sudhit Ranjan
  • Lisa A. Newton
  • Alan V. Seferian
  • Peggy Enders
  • Alix O’Brian Fox

Precinct 9

  • Vineeta Kumar
  • Diana Donovan
  • Rodney Elias Cole
  • Scott Foster Burson
  • Thomas Osgood Fenn
  • Victoria Lawrence Blier
  • Elizabeth Ruth Mettetal 

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3 Comments

  1. Hello, One-quarter of this town voted. One quarter. Although it was higher than past local elections that weren’t connected to a presidential race, I am still dismayed by the voter turnout. When you vote, you use your voice. You help determine the choices that are made in our town. Do you know how powerful that is? Do you know how blessed we are to have the right to vote? And, women, we fought for years for the right to vote, and to not vote discredits all those suffragettes that came before us. For the next election, I highly recommend that you take the time to learn about the candidates, make a plan, and VOTE! Voting Matters!

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