Peabody Election Results 2011

                   Total      % vote     Incumbent? 

 Mayor                                             

 Bettencourt        8703       63.6%   

 Fitzgerald         4980       36.4%           

 At-large CC                                       

 Gould              9012       18.7%     

 Garabedian         7601       15.8%         I 

 Gravel             7526       15.6%         I 

 Liacos             7123       14.8%         I 

 Manning-Martin     7084       14.7%         I 

 Croce              5604       11.6%   

 Donovan            4227        8.8%           

 Ward 1                                             

 Osborne            1547       56.8%         I 

 Forti              1177       43.2%           

 Ward 2                                             

 Athas              1089                     I

 Ward 3                                             

 Mello              1160       59.9%         I 

 Serino              777       40.1%           

 Ward 4                                             

 Driscoll           2182                     I         

 Ward 5                                             

 Gamache            1521                     I         

 Ward 6                                             

 Sinewitz           1955                     I         

 PMLP (6 yr)                                        

 D'Amato            7136       33.8%         I 

 Aylward            4935       23.4%      

 Birmingham         4825       22.9%   

 Feld               4186       19.9%           

 PMLP (2 yr)                                        

 Bonfanti        not reported                I         

 School Committee                                   

 McGeney            8296       27.7%         I 

 Carpenter          8144       27.2%         I 

 Charest            7108       23.7%         I 

 Russell            6434       21.5%      




Red color indicated winner(s) in race.

Ted Bettencourt is the next Mayor of Peabody

Congratulations to Ted Bettencourt. Time to fill those big shoes.

Peabody Mayor: Who will win, who should win.

Well the election is finished and only the votes need to be tallied.

I decided to mostly stay out of the business of this election here at the Roundtable and occasionally jumped into the mix at the Peabody Politics blog.

So who will win and who should win... a mighty bold statement and entirely based on my personal opinion, but here it goes and we will see the results soon enough.

Mayor:

Will Win: Bettencourt

Should Win: Fitzgerald

It is plain to me... Sean has experience at running government on a day-to-day level and a broad background at multiple levels of government... and a true record of accomplishing things in his duties. Ted has been on the council, and even president, for 8 years and accomplished... well not very much indeed. Oh well... maybe he will grow into the shoes he will need to fill.

As for the other races, I think the City Council will be mostly, if not all, returning to their posts. The exception might be Liacos who I think may be given the heave-ho from Gould. Donovan and Croce have the 'old and cranky' attribute that appeals to some folks, but usually doesn't get you elected.

In the wards, I'd love to see Forte win, but I think it will be all incumbents yet again. Sadly Bob Driscoll was able to manuver Jeff Grayson OUT of his ward after last elections 1 vote victory... not the classiest move I have ever witnessed. And while I would love to see Mello ousted, he is very popular.

School committee will be all the same faces... and its too bad because the only one who seems like he should REALLY BE on the committee is Russell - a real educator who might have made a real difference to our schools. I will keep hoping that McGeney or Carpenter will falter a bit and he will be elected, but this is Peabody and the incumbents rarely lose.

As for the Light Commission... I don't really care except that I would like it if Aylward DID NOT get elected as I strongly oppose his position on the Massachusetts Go Green initiative.

Well now I will wait for the results like the rest of you...