By Adam Swift
Winthrop voters largely fell in line with voters across the state during Tuesday’s primary election.
Attorney General Maura Healey topped the Democratic ticket for governor, while Trump-backed former State Representative Geoff Diehl doubled up Chris Doughty’s vote total in Winthrop on the Republican side. Healey and Diehl will square off in the state general election on Nov. 8.
Healey finished with 1,760 of the 2,021 votes cast for governor on the Democratic ballot. State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, who withdrew from the race but was still on the ballot, finished with 252 votes.
Diehl garnered 457 of the 678 votes cast for governor on the Republican ballot to Doughty’s 220.
In the lieutenant governor’s race, Salem mayor Kim Driscoll easily outdistanced the other two candidates in Winthrop and statewide, and will be on the ticket with Healey. On the Republican side, Leah Allen topped Kate Campanale 409 to 224 locally. Statewide, Allen was less than 10,000 votes ahead of Campanale as of Wednesday morning.
The toughest local contest on the ballot was the Democratic race for Suffolk County District Attorney between current DA Kevin Hayden and Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo. Hayden was the projected winner of the race, and in Winthrop, he easily topped Arroyo, 1,357 to 553.
Other Democratic races where Winthrop fell in line with the statewide winners included auditor, attorney general, and secretary of state.
Locally, Andrea Campbell outpaced Shannon Liss-Riordan in the AG’s race 1,007 to 699. Longtime Secretary of State William Galvin outpolled Tanisha Sullivan 1,595 to 437, and Diana DiZoglio beat Christopher Dempsey 977 to 885.
Winthrop State Representative Jeff Turco ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and faces no competition on the ballot in the general election in November. Likewise, State Senator Lydia Edwards and Congresswoman Katherine Clark ran unopposed in the primary. Edwards faces no competition in November, while Clark will face Republican nominee Caroline Colarusso, who ran unopposed in the Republican primary