Special Election To Be Held March 30 In Boston

CHARLESTOWN, MA — Voters in Charlestown will be heading to the polls in March for a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of former Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo, Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin announced Monday.

The special election will be March 30 for in the Nineteenth Middlesex Representative District. The primaries will be held on March 2.

If you're not registered to vote yet, you have until Feb. 10 to register for the primaries. Or March 11 for the special election.

Vote-by-mail will be available for both the special state primary and the special state election. Information on voting by mail is available at www.MailMyBallotMA.com.

For anyone inclined to run for the office, the deadline for submitting nomination papers to the local registrars of voters is Jan. 19, while the last day to file certified nomination papers with the Secretary of the Commonwealth is Jan. 26. Nominations for the House of Representatives require a minimum of 150 certified signatures.

Nomination papers will be available at the Elections Division at One Ashburton Place in Boston, as well as the Winthrop Town Clerk’s office and the Revere Elections Department.

The Nineteenth Suffolk District consists of Revere’s Ward 1, Precincts 1 and 2; Ward 2; Ward 3, Precincts 2 and 3; and Ward 5, and the town of Winthrop.