Worcester: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election / Massachusetts state election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Markey seat, class 2); U.S. Representative MA-2; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket) and other statewide offices; Governor's Council 7th District; Massachusetts Senate (First Worcester at city hall; also Second Worcester and Worcester & Hampshire) and House (15th Worcester at city hall; also 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th Worcester); Worcester County offices; statewide ballot questions. No City of Worcester office..
Holding office18
the sitting council
On the ballot9
6 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Worcester is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district (city hall at 42.26336,-71.80213; the whole city is in MA-2 per the City roster) — James P. McGovern (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph M. Petty ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Worcester |
2
City Councilor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Rosen ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | At-Large | City of Worcester |
| John P. Fresolo ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | District 3 | City of Worcester |
| Jose A. Rivera ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | District 5 | City of Worcester |
| Kathleen M. Toomey ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | At-Large | City of Worcester |
| Khrystian E. King ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | At-Large | City of Worcester |
| Luis A. Ojeda ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | District 4 | City of Worcester |
| Morris A. Bergman ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | At-Large | City of Worcester |
| Robert A. Bilotta ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | District 2 | City of Worcester |
| Satya B. Mitra ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | At-Large | City of Worcester |
| Tony Economou ✉️ Elected | City Councilor | Independent | District 1 | City of Worcester |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maura Healey Elected unofficial | Governor → Running | Democratic | City of Worcester Election Commission | |
| Michael Roger Minogue unofficial | Governor Running | Republican | Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth |
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Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberley Driscoll Elected unofficial | Lieutenant Governor → Running | Democratic | City of Worcester Election Commission | |
| Shawn Oliver unofficial | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth |
5
State Representative — 15th Worcester
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary S. Keefe ✉️ Elected unofficial | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Massachusetts Legislature |
6
State Senator — First Worcester
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robyn K. Kennedy ✉️ Elected unofficial | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Massachusetts Legislature |
7
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Warren Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | City of Worcester Election Commission | |
| Edward J. Markey Elected unofficial | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | City of Worcester Election Commission | |
| John Deaton unofficial | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth |
8
U.S. Representative — MA-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James P. McGovern Elected unofficial | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor and 10 City Councilors (5 at-large, Districts 1-5) from the City's 'Meet the City Councilors' page (https://www.worcesterma.gov/city-council/councilors) and the Election Commission's Roster of Elected Officials (https://www.worcesterma.gov/elections/elected-officials), both retrieved 2026-10-22; they agree. Worcester's council has 11 members including the Mayor, who is elected from among the at-large candidates. Official @worcesterma.gov emails and city headshot URLs linked, not copied. Worcester has no other city-wide elected office besides the School Committee (school level skipped per brief). Municipal ballots are non-partisan: party null, partyShort 'None'.
- Next Worcester municipal election: Tuesday, November 2, 2027 (Mayor, all council and School Committee seats; two-year terms — councilor bios say 'two-year term'; the last municipal election was 2025-11-04 per the Election Commission page). No City of Worcester office is on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
- Districts covering the city, from the City roster's ward/precinct breakdown: one congressional district (MA-2); three state Senate districts (First Worcester — Robyn K. Kennedy; Second Worcester — Michael O. Moore; Worcester & Hampshire — Peter J. Durant, R) and five House districts (13th Worcester — John J. Mahoney; 14th — James J. O'Day; 15th — Mary S. Keefe; 16th — Daniel M. Donahue; 17th — David H. A. LeBoeuf). City hall (Census coordinates 42.26336,-71.80213) is in MA-2, First Worcester and 15th Worcester per the Census geocoder's 120th Congress and 2026 state legislative layers. Only city hall's legislators are recorded as people. All five representatives and both Worcester senators were Democratic primary nominees with no Republican nominee; Durant (R) faces Shannon M. Teabo (D) in Worcester & Hampshire.
- Federal: James P. McGovern from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Massachusetts 2nd; no photo on the directory, so none linked). U.S. Senators from the City roster plus the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json for term dates; senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to robots.txt and was not used. Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kimberley Driscoll from the City roster (mass.gov not fetched).
- State legislators from the Massachusetts Legislature member lists (malegislature.gov/Legislators/Members/Senate and /House), retrieved 2026-10-22; official @masenate.gov/@mahouse.gov emails kept. malegislature.gov's Terms forbid use of its photographs without the General Court's written consent, so legislator photos are NOT linked.
- Candidates: the Secretary of the Commonwealth's 2026 State Election candidate list (sec.state.ma.us; /divisions/elections/ is not disallowed by robots.txt, only /elections and /ele) could not be read — the host served an Imperva/Incapsula JavaScript challenge to the very first page request, not bypassed. The Worcester Election Commission has posted no 2026 state-election candidate list or specimen ballot (its elections page still shows the 2025 municipal election; its 2026-09-01 primary results PDF, /election-results/20260901.pdf, is a scanned image with no text layer). Nominees therefore come from the Secretary's PD43+ site (electionstats.state.ma.us, robots allows all): certified 2026 State Primary (September 1) results, one row per party nominee. Every running status resting on these is marked 'unofficial': true. Unenrolled/independent and minor-party candidates who filed nomination papers for the general are NOT captured; write-ins and primary losers excluded.
- 2026 ballot as captured: U.S. Senate — Markey (D, incumbent) vs John Deaton (R). MA-2 — McGovern (D, incumbent), no Republican nominee. Governor — Healey (D, incumbent) vs Michael Roger Minogue (R); Lt. Governor — Driscoll (D, incumbent) vs Shawn Oliver (R). Senate First Worcester — Kennedy (D, incumbent), no Republican nominee. House 15th Worcester — Keefe (D, incumbent), no Republican nominee. counts.unopposed = 3 (McGovern, Kennedy, Keefe) means no other party's nominee in the primary results; unenrolled challengers could not be checked.
- Robots/terms: worcesterma.gov (robots allows the pages used; Disclaimer: materials copyright City of Worcester, personal non-commercial download only), house.gov (robots allows /representatives; Terms: government works not copyright protected), malegislature.gov (robots allows all; photos restricted), electionstats.state.ma.us (robots allows all; terms link to blocked sec.state.ma.us), unitedstates.github.io (robots 404; CC0), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404), sec.state.ma.us (Incapsula challenge), senate.gov (403). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded (the roster's Governor's Council entry gives a gmail address; Governor's Council is not recorded). standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read).
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Worcester — Meet the City Councilors (cross-checked with the Election Commission roster) 10
- City of Worcester Election Commission — Roster of Elected Officials ('Warren, Elizabeth A. (D)'); @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) for term dates 1
- City of Worcester — Meet the City Councilors 1
- City of Worcester Election Commission — Roster of Elected Officials; @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) for term dates; senate.gov returned HTTP 403 even to robots.txt; candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, U.S. Senate Democratic Primary 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Massachusetts 2nd, 'McGovern, James'); City of Worcester roster; candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, U.S. House 2nd Congressional Democratic Primary 1
- City of Worcester Election Commission — Roster of Elected Officials ('Driscoll, Kimberley (D)', Lieutenant Governor); candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, Lieutenant Governor Democratic Primary 1
- Massachusetts Legislature — House members (15th Worcester, Democrat); candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, State Representative 15th Worcester Democratic Primary 1
- City of Worcester Election Commission — Roster of Elected Officials ('Healey, Maura (D)', Governor); candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, Governor Democratic Primary 1
- Massachusetts Legislature — Senate members (First Worcester, Democrat); candidacy from Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, State Senate 1st Worcester Democratic Primary 1
- Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, U.S. Senate Republican Primary 1
- Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, Governor Republican Primary 1
- Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth — PD43+ election statistics, 2026 State Primary (September 1, 2026) certified results, Lieutenant Governor Republican Primary 1