★ 2026 Massachusetts Voter Guide · Statewide edition

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Every statewide office on your November 3, 2026 Massachusetts ballot except the U.S. Senate seat, and all nine questions (guns, marijuana, primaries, tax rebates, housing, public records), each with the strongest case for yes and for no, and nobody telling you how to vote.

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Question 9 is backwards

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01Executive · 4-Year Term

Governor & Lt. Governor

An incumbent with a cost-of-living problem and a 24-point lead.

01 The 30-Second Version

What this job does

The governor of Massachusetts runs one of the most powerful executive offices in the country on paper: broad appointment power over agencies and the judiciary, a line-item veto, and control of the budget the Legislature amends. In practice the job is a negotiation with a Democratic supermajority in both chambers. The lieutenant governor chairs the Governor's Council and succeeds the governor.

Who's running

Maura Healey & Kim DriscollDemocrat

Incumbents since 2023; Healey is a former attorney general, Driscoll a former mayor of Salem. Both were unopposed for renomination.

Mike Minogue & Shawn OliverRepublican

Minogue is a businessman and former CEO of the medical device company Abiomed; Oliver is a New Bedford city councilor and former corrections officer. Minogue won the primary after taking 70% at the April convention.

Also on the ballot: Andrea James, running as an independent.

The core disagreement

Whether a governor whose state keeps getting more expensive (near-$800,000 median home prices, some of the highest electricity rates in the country, and net out-migration of working-age adults) is the person to fix it, or whether a first-time candidate from the medical device industry can convert that frustration into the first Republican win here since 2018.

02 If You Want More

Healey & DriscollDemocrat

The strongest case for them

Healey's case is competence plus contrast. She has governed as a pragmatist rather than an ideologue, passed the state's largest housing bond bill, delivered the first broad tax cut package in twenty years, and absorbed an emergency shelter crisis that would have sunk a less disciplined administration. She frames the race around the federal government: Massachusetts depends heavily on federal research, health, and education money, and she argues the governor's job right now includes defending it. She led her opponent 54–30 in August polling, and every forecaster rates the race safe Democratic.

Housing: the state's largest housing bond bill and the MBTA Communities zoning law.
Taxes: the first major tax relief package in two decades.
Federal defense: protecting research, health, and education funding.
Standing: up 24 points in August; rated Safe Democratic.

Minogue & OliverRepublican

The strongest case for them

Minogue ran a medical device company and runs on the numbers: utility costs are now the top household concern in state polling, the median home is near $800,000, and Massachusetts lost more than 33,000 residents to other states in a single year, over half of them working adults aged 26 to 44. His “Blueprint for a Better Future” promises outside audits of the Legislature and the state budget, a public spending dashboard, cuts to state-mandated utility fees, permitting compressed from about eighteen months to 45 days, and returning 35 to 40% of state tax revenue to municipalities. He self-funded roughly $15.8 million.

Energy: cut state-mandated utility charges; repeal the 2050 net-zero mandate.
Housing: permitting from ~18 months to 45 days.
Accountability: outside audits of the Legislature and a spending dashboard.
Money: roughly $15.8 million of his own.

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Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, the two statewide offices running unopposed, and all nine ballot questions. Federal races aren't included.

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