The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has long analyzed data on elections and voting in Worcester. In 2023, the Research Bureau released “Worcester’s Municipal Elections, 2013 to 2023,” a StoryMap that looked compared turnout and results across ten years of Worcester municipal elections. In 2020, the Research Bureau released a report on trends in voter turnout, “Absent Voters: Who is Voting and Not Voting (Yet) in Worcester Municipal Elections.” This dashboard continues by analyzing November 2025’s municipal election results.
The links in the introduction take you to a series of maps of the results of Worcester’s 2025 municipal election. These are organized into “overall” and “district” and “at-large” elections. You can use the arrow keys in the bottom right hand graphic of the dashboard to navigate through the maps. The data underlying these maps is also provided. In general, there are maps for each of the candidates that won an election, but clicking on individual precincts will give information about vote margins, comparisons to 2023, and all other candidates in the election.
- Overall: This page shows overall turnout in each precinct; the percentage that each precinct contributed to the overall total of citywide votes; and the percentage of “Yes” votes per precinct for the nonbinding ballot question.
- District: This page shows individual results for each of the City Council and School Committee districts with contest elections. The maps show the percentage of votes candidates received in each of their districts’ precincts, not counting ballots that chose more or less than one candidate (i.e., blank ballots).
- At-Large: This page shows maps for each of the at-large candidates on both City Council and School Committee that won seats in November. Colors on this map represent the share of ballots in each precinct that had a vote for that candidate (as each voter can choose either six or two candidates, respectively, in these races). It also shows the mayoral race, where colors indicate the candidate that received the most votes in that precinct, and transparency indicates the strength of that win. Pop-ups (found by clicking on a precinct) show voting information for all candidates in each race.
Finally, the data tab allows readers to download the table underlying this data.