ELECTIONS

Republicans failed to win a single U.S. House seat in New England this year, despite flipping several congressional seats across the country to retake the House.

Election day was a week ago, but the work of local election officials in Massachusetts has not stopped, with the vote certification deadline approaching. Commentator Grace Bannasch is town clerk in Shutesbury, population 1,700. She’s been nonstop busy for months.

Massachusetts Democrats captured all major offices on the ballot, and Massachusetts Republicans are re-grouping and taking a closer look at their messaging.

Two new state representatives from western Massachusetts who were elected this week, said they are already gearing up to take office in January.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern represents the 2nd Congressional District in Massachusetts and chairs the House Rules Committee. He stands to lose his chairmanship with a GOP takeover.

Massachusetts Sen. Adam Gomez, D-Springfield, said undocumented immigrants who do not have driver's licenses can submit alternative forms of identification at the Registry of Motor Vehicles in order to apply for a license starting in July 2023.

In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, voters went largely Democratic, but Republicans won some top offices.

Massachusetts Gov.-elect Maura Healey and her running mate, Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll, plan to spend part of Wednesday chatting with the Republicans whose jobs they will take over in January.

Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General, overwhelmed her Republican opponent, Geoff Diehl, to put the governorship back in Democratic hands after Republican Gov. Charlie Baker didn't run again.

Just after polls in Massachusetts closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Associated Press called the governor's race for Democrat Maura Healey, leading a sweep of statewide offices.