School Committee Unofficial Election Reversal
Nov 7, 2025 – The Unofficial Election Results have now been determined. Due to an error in which the ballot data from a test deck of ballots was not cleared prior to the tabulation of the actual City Council and School Committee votes, the Preliminary Results (Nov 4) contained significant errors. In the newly tabulated Unofficial Election Results, David Weinstein is unofficially reelected to the School Committee and Eugenia Schraa Huh is not elected. The unofficial winners in the City Council race are the same – though the order of election has changed.
| Unofficial Results (Fri, Nov 7): City Council (in order of election): Sumbul Siddiqui Marc C. McGovern Ayah Al-Zubi Cathie Zusy Burhan Azeem Jivan G. Sobrinho-Wheeler Tim Flaherty E. Denise Simmons Patricia M. Nolan |
Unofficial Results (Fri, Nov 7): School Committee (in order of election): Elizabeth Hudson Richard Harding Luisa De Paula Santos Caitlin Dube Arjun Jaikumar David Weinstein |
Charter Ballot Question: Yes: 18,406 (73%) No: 5,899 (23%) Blank: 1,046 (4%) |
| Round-by-Round Results (HTML) – official City version | Round-by-Round Results (HTML) – official City version | |
| Spreadsheet (PDF) – with transfer details | Spreadsheet (PDF) – with transfer details | |
| Note: The Final Official Election Results will be determined on Friday, November 14. – RW | ||
Election Commission Statement Regarding Cambridge Municipal Election Preliminary Unofficial Results From November 4th
The Cambridge Election Commission conducts rigorous and mandatory prequalified testing for every election. Through its proactive auditing process, the Election Commission determined that ballots used for testing were not fully cleared from the Election Management System by the vendor in advance of the Municipal Election on November 4, 2025.
As a result, the preliminary unofficial results for the 2025 Municipal Election that were released early November 5 included both the ballots processed election night and the test ballots, which produced 2,158 additional records (632 for the City Council, 1,370 for the School Committee, and 156 for the Ballot Question).
The Election Commission has since removed all test ballots and retabulated the unofficial election results, which also now includes ballots counted Wednesday, November 5 through Friday, November 7.
With the updated Count-by-Count Unofficial results and the removal of the test ballots, there has been a change in the announced candidates from Friday’s School Committee unofficial results versus what was originally announced as part of the unofficial preliminary results late Tuesday night. There have been no changes to the named candidates in the City Council unofficial results or the yes vote in support of the ballot question.
Preliminary unofficial results are made available by the Election Commission to the community, media organizations, and other interested individuals as soon as they are available on Election Night. However, results are subject to change as additional ballots are counted and tallies are confirmed through a series of checks and balances. As a result of this thorough auditing process, a discrepancy associated with the test ballots was discovered.