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Here's the results of Tuesday's State Election In Massachusetts as of 2:20am. ^U.S. Senate 2,148 of 2,173 precincts - 99 percent x-Ed Markey, Dem (i) 1,268,429 - 62 percent Brian Herr, GOP 775,241 - 38 percent < ^Governor 2,148 of 2,173 precincts - 99 percent x-Charlie Baker, GOP 1,023,674 - 48 percent Martha Coakley, Dem 988,061 - 47 percent Evan Falchuk, Uni 70,383 - 3 percent Scott Lively, I

Republican Charlie Baker has been elected governor of Massachusetts, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley and three independent candidates to reclaim the state's top political office for the GOP. The 57-year-old Baker is the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care...

The two major political party candidates for governor of Massachusetts have cast their ballots. Democrat Martha Coakley voted at the West Medford Fire Station soon after polls opened Tuesday morning. Republican Charlie Baker voted a little later at First Church in his home town of Swampscott. ...

Tuesday's elections are expected to restore power in the senate to Republicans. UMass Dartmouth Political Science professor Kenneth Manning says President Obama's low approval rating is spurning the change of heart in Americans. Manning says, however, don't expect much out of Washington over the next two years...

Election day is tomorrow in Massachusetts. The Bay State will have a new governor as Deval Patrick announced in January that he will not seek the office again.

Democratic Candidate for Governor Martha Coakley said Republican Candidate Charlie Baker should answer ``legitimate questions'' raised about a story Baker told during a recent debate. During Tuesday's televised debate Baker tearfully recalled a meeting with a New Bedford fisherman who regretted pressuring his sons to follow him into the job rather than go to college...

Democratic candidate for governor Martha Coakley is headed to New Bedford to meet with fishermen and representatives of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The visit on Friday comes several days after the final televised debate of the campaign during which Coakley's Republican rival, Charlie Baker, tearfully recalled a meeting with a New Bedford fishermen who regretted pressuring his sons to follo

Charlie Baker's story of a New Bedford fisherman he met while on the campaign trail is raising eyebrows on the South Coast. Baker's says the story of the mountain of a man who told his sons to work as fishermen instead of taking athletic scholarships actually occurred during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign...

Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Martha Coakley made their final pitches to voters in a televised debate. During Tuesday's match-up, the two laid out their plans for job growth, the best response to Ebola, the proliferation of outside political ads, and how the state should cope with immigrants who are in the country illegally...

Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker sparred on jobs, schools and services for families and children during a televised gubernatorial debate. Coakley says if elected she would focus on building a sustainable economy from the ground up while Baker says he would focus on strengthening local economies in struggling parts of the state...