In Mass. State House and Senate races throughout the Cambridge area, popular Democrats fended off Republican challenges and won decisively.
Democrat Anne Paulsen defeated Republican challenger Kevin Cuddleback in the 24th Middlesex District, which includes North Cambridge, taking 75 percent of the vote.
In the 8th Suffolk District, in the seat vacated by Paul C. Demakis ’75, Democrat Marty Walz received 75 percent of the vote to Republican Richard L. Babson’s 23 percent and America First Party’s Thomas White’s 2 percent.
In the 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex Senate seat, Democrat Steven A. Tolman won over Republican Robert Ferencsik 83 percent to 17 percent.
-—-Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu.