Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
Voters on Nov. 4 elected mayors in 34 cities across the state, including six new mayors.
The following mayors were elected (* denotes incumbent):
Agawam: Chris Johnson*
Attleboro: Cathleen DeSimone*
Beverly: Michael Cahill*
Boston: Michelle Wu*
Brockton: Moises Rodrigues
Chicopee: John Vieau*
Easthampton: Salem Derby
Everett: Robert Van Campen
Fall River: Paul Coogan*
Fitchburg: Samantha Squailia*
Framingham: Charlie Sisitsky*
Gardner: Michael Nicholson*
Gloucester: Paul Lundberg
Haverhill: Melinda Barrett*
Holyoke: Joshua Garcia*
Lawrence: Brian DePena*
Leominster: Dean Mazzarella*
Lynn: Jared Nicholson*
Marlborough: Christian Dumais*
Medford: Breanna Lungo-Koehn*
Methuen: David “D.J.” Beauregard Jr.*
Newburyport: Sean Reardon*
Newton: Marc Laredo
Northampton: Gina-Louise Sciarra*
North Adams: Jennifer Macksey*
Peabody: Edward Bettencourt*
Salem: Dominick Pangallo*
Somerville: Jake Wilson
Taunton: Shaunna O’Connell*
West Springfield: William Reichelt*
Westfield: Michael McCabe*
Weymouth Michael Molisse*
Woburn: Michael Patrick Concannon*
Worcester: Joseph Petty*
Because they are in the middle of four-year terms, mayors were not on the ballot in Amesbury (Kassandra Gove), Braintree (Erin Joyce), Greenfield (Virginia “Ginny” DeSorgher), Malden (Gary Christenson), Melrose (Jen Grigoraitis), New Bedford (Jon Mitchell), Pittsfield (Peter Marchetti), Quincy (Thomas Koch), Revere (Patrick Keefe Jr.), Springfield (Domenic Sarno), Waltham (Jeannette McCarthy).
The mayors of Cambridge and Lowell will be chosen from their respective city councils in January.
The mayors elected on Nov. 4 will begin their terms in early January.
The following 11 communities with a city form of government have councils but do not have mayors: Amherst, Barnstable, Bridgewater, Chelsea, East Longmeadow, Franklin, North Attleborough, Palmer, Randolph, Southbridge, Watertown and Winthrop. Of this group, Bridgewater, East Longmeadow, North Attleborough, Palmer and Southbridge did not vote on Nov. 4, as they hold their elections each spring.
A regular municipal election was also held on Nov. 4 in the town of Saugus, which follows a city election schedule, where voters elected selectmen, town meeting members and other town officials.