With a record-high number of ballots cast collectively across Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester for the Tuesday, Nov. 5 presidential election, Tri-Town voters favored Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump.

Harris received 6,515 votes, 52%, of the 12,517 total Tri-Town votes, while Trump received 5,571, 45%, according to unofficial results. 

The Tri-Town also narrowly favored Democrat Mark Sylvia over Republican Joe Pires in the 10th Bristol district state representative race, which Sylvia won.

The district includes Mattapoisett, Marion, Rochester, Fairhaven, and parts of Acushnet and New Bedford. 

Sylvia received 49% of the Tri-Town vote compared to 47% for Pires.

The turnout figure of 12,517 beat the 2020 presidential election’s total of 12,283, which was then a record. The turnout percentage was 80%.

The record-setting turnout in the Tri-Town in the 2024 presidential election matched a broader forecast for record levels of voter participation across Massachusetts, after Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin predicted on Monday that voting numbers would surpass the 2020 election.

The Tri-Town’s municipalities matched the same party lines as the 2020 presidential election. A majority of voters in Marion and Mattapoisett, which both went for Biden in 2020, selected Harris while Rochester, as the town did in 2016 and 2020, went for Trump.

Harris received 2,698 votes, 56%, in Mattapoisett. Trump received 2,064 votes, or 42%.

Residents of Marion cast a total of 2,168 votes, or 60% for Harris in the presidential election. Trump received 1,294 votes, or 36%.

Trump received 2,213 votes, or 55%, in Rochester, while Harris received 1,650, 41%. 

In Marion 3,592 voted out of 4,646 people registered, a 77% turnout.

A line extended into the parking lot at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center when polls opened at 7 a.m., according to Town Clerk Lissa Magauran.

That line didn’t clear until 7:30 a.m., and a hundred people voted in the first 30 minutes that polls were open, she said.

By 1 p.m. on the day of the 2020 presidential election, 750 Marion voters had cast in-person ballots. At 1 p.m. on Tuesday for the 2024 presidential election, 1,016 voters had cast ballots.

“It’s kind of broken every record we’ve had,” Magauran said.

Rochester had 4,019 voters of 4,971 total registered, an 81% turnout.

At 7 a.m. in Rochester, the parking lots at the Rochester Senior Center were full and a line went out the door, according to Town Clerk Margie Barrows.

“It’s been very steady,” Barrows said. “Very good. No issue.”

Mattapoisett also had a turnout percentage of 81% as the town saw 4,906 voters of 6,069 total registered.

For the Senate race between incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Republican challenger John Deaton, the Tri-Town overall favored Deaton, boosted by a large margin in Rochester.

Deaton received 51% of Tri-Town votes to Warren’s 47%.

In the House of Representatives race between incumbent Democrat Bill Keating and Republican challenger Dan Sullivan, the Tri-Town favored Keating with 51% of the collective vote compared to Sullivan’s 45%.