Ranked-choice voting won't be coming to Massachusetts anytime soon.
Bay State voters rejected Question 2 which would have implemented ranked-choice voting in the state. With about 80 percent of the votes counted over night, 55 percent of voters had said No on 2, so the Yes on 2 campaign conceded.
State Representative Lenny Mirra (R-West Newbury) won a rematch on Tuesday night.
Mirra, who represents the Second Essex District, ran a tight race against Democrat Christina Eckert of Boxford in 2018 and pulled out a victory against her this time around as well. Mirra earned 14,849 votes to Eckert's 14,062. It's an improved performance for him over his 2018 run when he edged out his opponent, receiving 50.7 percent of the vote to her 49.3 percent, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's elections division.
