Where To Vote in Charlestown for the Special Election

Boston will help choose the next U.S Senator from Massachusetts in today's special state election.

Democratic candidate Edward Markey of Malden will face off against Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset as well as third-party candidate Richard Heos, a Woburn resident who represents the Twelve Visions Party, for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Residents in the Eighth Suffolk District, which does not include Charlestown, will also be voting for a state representative in the special election. Only one candidate, Democrat Jay Livingstone of Boston, is on the ballot for that race.

Polls in Boston will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Charlestown residents, all of whom live in Boston's Ward 2, will be voting at the following locations:

• Districts 1 and 2—Zelma Lacey House, 9 West School St. Voting takes place in the community room.
• Districts 2 and 4—Harvard-Kent Elementary School, 50 Bunker Hill St. 
  Voting takes place in the gymnasium. 
• Districts 5 and 6—Clarence R. Edwards Middle School, 28 Walker St.
  Enter through the rear entrance from Eden Street. Voting takes in the gymnasium. 
• District 7— 382 Main St. Voting takes place in the building.

Not sure what district you live in? Look up your address on the Secretary of State's website to find out.