THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, November 5, 2021 Page 9 Ward 8 and Ward 5. In Ward 8, incumbent Jadeane Sica topped political newcomer Nate Bae Kupel, 468-385, or, 54-45%. Ward 5 incumbent Barbara Murphy held off challenger Ari Taylor, 668-538 (55-44%), for the win and another two-year term. The three other incumbents breezed to reelection wins. Ward 1 Councillor Peg Crowe outdistanced first-time candidate Nadege Philippe, 449-153. Ward 4 Councillor Ryan O’Malley won a fourth consecutive term, outpacing former Ward 4 Councillor Jeff Donahue, 459-206. Incumbent Ward 3 Councillor Amanda Linehan won reelection to a second term by defeating first-time political candidate Glen Curtis, 807-453. Ward 2 Councillor Paul Condon won his fourth consecutive term running unopposed, receiving 521 votes. School Committee There will be three new School Committee members in 2022, as three open seats were filled and incumbents were reelected, unopposed. Ward 1’s Michael Drummey (468 votes), Ward 2’s Robert McCarthy Jr. (510 votes), Ward 3’s Jennifer Spadafora (948 votes), Ward 5’s Adam Weldai (946 votes) and Ward 6’s Joseph Gray (678 votes) were all reelected unopposed. New to the School Committee for 2022 will be Dawn Macklin in Ward 4, who was elected unopposed MALDEN ELECTION FACTS & FIGURES –Tuesday’s turnout for a citywide election, just 20%, was the lowest turnout citywide since 2015 and 2013, when back-toback elections drew only 21% turnouts. It may have been the lowest ever for an election where all eight Wards were voting. –Despite the highest number of registered voters in Malden history, 35,842, only 7,187 voters cast ballots. This low number came despite enhancements like extended early voting at City Hall, expanded absentee and mail-in voting services and the traditional in-person voting on Election Day. –In 2019, 27% of Malden’s voters went to the polls, a year in which there was a contested mayoral race. Following are the turnouts going back to 2009 in citywide elections: 2017 (27%); 2015 (21%, Mayor ran unopposed); 2013 (21%); 2011 (32%, contested mayoral race); 2009 (30%). –The highest of those turnouts (in 2011) came during the first mayoral election won by present Mayor Gary Christenson, who is now in the middle of this third four-year term. –If Mayor Christenson runs for reelection in 2023, wins and serves another four-year term, he will have been in office 16 years as the longest-serving Mayor in Malden municipal history. –Incumbent Malden Councillor-at-Large Craig Spadafora got the most votes of any candidate in Tuesday’s election, topping the ticket for reelection with 3,722 votes. This is the first time Spadafora has been the ticket-topper since 2013; he also was the top City Council candidate vote-getter in 2011. –Finishing 4-5-6 in the three -winner Councillor-at-Large race and out of the running were former Ward 3 Councillor/former Councillor-at-Large John Matheson (2,077 votes), Roberto DiMarco (2,006 votes) and Brian DeLacey (1,483 votes). –The Malden Ward with the highest voter turnout has traditionally been Ward 3 (West End neighborhood), and it stayed at the top in this election with a 27% turnout. Ward 3, Precinct 2 was also the highest single Precinct for voter turnout with 30%. Ward 5, Precinct 2 was close at 29% turnout. –Ward 2 (Edgeworth neighborhood) in the past had always been a close second to Ward 3 in voter turnout percentage in the 1980s-2000s, but it has been waning considerably in recent years. On Tuesday, Ward 2 tied Ward 1 for lowest overall voter turnout in the entire city, a meager 15.5%. –The Precinct with lowest turnout citywide was Ward 8, Precinct 2 with just 293 voters of nearly 2,700 registered casting their ballots: 11%. Interestingly, newcomer Nate Bae Kupel won that Precinct over the incumbent, Jadeane Sica, 152-137. – First-time candidate Sharon Rose Zeiberg totaled the highest winning percentage for a Ward candidate in her big win for Ward 8 School Committee Member, garnering 71% of the votes cast. –All three of the Councillor-at-Large winners showed decent citywide appeal as Craig Spadafora, Karen Colón Hayes and Carey McDonald finished as the top three vote-getters in 15 of 16 Precincts, with Spadafora winning eight Precincts, Hayes winning five and McDonald winning three, including both precincts in his home Ward 5. seat was also open with firstterm School Committee Member Michelle Luong not seeking reelection as she ran for Ward 7 Councillor in this year’s election. The following is a sidebar..... Shaded colored box beside main story’s jump Mackey & Brown Attorneys at Law * PERSONAL INJURY * REAL ESTATE * FAMILY LAW * GENERAL PRACTICE * PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY * CIVIL LITIGATION VOTE HERE! Here’s a look at the multilingual voter attraction signs outside all of Malden’s 18 precincts for this election and the last one. This sign is located outside Ward 4, Precinct 2 at the Malden Senior Center (7 Washington St.). (Advocate Photo/Steve Freker) with 466 votes; Keith Bernard in Ward 7, who defeated Nichole Mossalam, 483-302; and Sharon Rose Zeiberg, who won the Ward 8 School Committee seat by a 614-163 margin over Bruce Friedman, in a battle of two firsttime candidates. Macklin will replace longtime School Committeeman Leonard Iovino in Ward 4 while Zeiberg replaces John Froio Sr., who represented Ward 8 for many years. Iovino and Froio both opted not to seek reelection. The Ward 7 14 Norwood St., Everett, MA 02149 Phone: (617) 387-4900 Fax: (617) 381-1755 WWW.MACKEYBROWNLAW.COM John Mackey, Esq. * Katherine M. Brown, Esq. Patricia Ridge, Esq. 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