Massachusetts ballot question 7 full town-by-town results

The Boston Globe · Diti Kohli, Daigo Fujiwara-Smith · 2026-11-04 13:57 UTC

See how every city and town voted on Question 7, so far.

On an otherwise clear-cut Election Day in Massachusetts, just one of the nine ballot questions was still up in the air, with “yes” and “no” neck and neck Wednesday morning.

Question 7, a measure to allow single-family home construction on smaller lots, had split voters statewide almost exactly in half with 80 percent of the ballots tallied. If it fails, the status quo remains, with individual cities and towns continuing to determine how big the minimum size a piece of land in a given neighborhood must be in order for a home to be built there.

But if it passes, supporters say, the question could increase the construction of new homes and revitalize middle-class homeownership in communities across the state.

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