Markey +21
- Edward Markey Democratic: 53%
- John Deaton Republican: 32%
- Shiva Ayyadurai Independent: 4%
- Joseph Tache 7%
Other 1% · Undecided 4%
MA2026
U.S. Senate · Massachusetts · 2026
General election · 4 on the November ballot · Incumbent running
Result
CalledEd Markey (D) won this race with 63.4% of the vote, 31.3 points ahead.
- Ed MarkeyDemocraticIncumbentWinner63.4%1,650,772 votes
- John DeatonRepublican32.1%837,152 votes
- Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent2.3%59,837 votes
- Joe TacheParty for Socialism and Liberation2.2%56,530 votes
- Margin
- 813,620 votes (31.3 points)
- Called
- Called by Wikipedia editors, Nov 3, 8:05 PM ET (revision)
- Last updated
- Nov 14, 6:05 AM ET
- Source
- Wikipedia · official results page
Called it: hit Our locked call before polls closed was D; the winner is D. See every locked call
Unofficial until the state certifies the result.
Before the election
Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.
Race poll averageU.S. Senate · Massachusetts
Edward Markey
57%
John Deaton
33%
Verified poll average · 10 polls · newest poll ended 2026-10-319% other
Verified polls Markey leads Deaton by 24.1 points in our average of verified polls.
10 verified polls averaged, newest ended 2026-10-31. Page updated 2026-11-14. Sources · What is validated
ExperimentalNews attention 37/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated yesterday. How it works
On the November ballot (4)
From reported primary results, checked 2026-11-14. Each state certifies its own ballot; see the source below.
Ran in the primary (1)
Lost a primary or runoff for this seat, not on the November ballot.
Other filers (3)
Registered with the FEC or listed in public records, but not on the November ballot as far as the results show.
Ballot source: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/research-and-statistics/2026-state-election-candidates.htm
Markey +24
- Edward Markey Democratic: Incumbent57.5%
- John Deaton Republican: 33.4%
- Shiva Ayyadurai Independent: 3.3%
- Joseph Tache 5.9%
Latest verified field polling
Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.
Cite / verify
Cite thishttps://vugol.me/races/US-MA
Sourcehttps://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/1014/
Retrieved2026-11-14
Polling average Updates as polls arrive
57.5% Edward Markey33.4% John Deaton5.9% Joseph Tache3.3% Shiva Ayyadurai
Ed Markey (D)John Deaton (R)Joe Tache (P)Shiva Ayyadurai (I)● verified poll · ○ quarantined poll · ◎ live average
Vugol Tensor
How far this poll average can miss · a range, not a prediction
Centre D+24.1. Four times in five the result lands between D+30.8 and D+17.4; nine in ten between D+32.7 and D+15.5. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: >99%.
Same inputs as the Vugol Tensor page: the verified polling average above (10 verified polls), plus how far polls have missed since 1998. In the backtest the plain poll average picked the wrong winner in about 11% of polled, mostly competitive races (11.2%, 946 races, 1998 to 2024), and polls miss together. Not a forecast guarantee. How Tensor works →
Campaign money (FEC)
Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | Through |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Markey | $8,685,207 | $9,537,271 | $799,913 | 2026-10-14 |
| Alexander Rikleen | $79,354 | $78,696 | $659 | 2026-09-30 |
| John Deaton | $1,674,460 | $1,186,303 | $488,156 | 2026-10-14 |
| Joseph Tache | $285,403 | $261,623 | $23,780 | 2026-10-14 |
| Morgan Gifford Dawicki | $16,498 | $8,443 | $2,863 | 2026-09-30 |
| Nathan Alexander Bech | $80,010 | $56,520 | $28,264 | 2026-09-30 |
| Seth Moulton | $6,669,668 | $8,414,654 | $105,351 | 2026-09-30 |
| Shiva Ayyadurai | $239,098 | $159,434 | $78,522 | 2026-10-14 |
Ad spending (FEC)
What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.
| Candidate | Campaign's own ads | Outside groups for | Outside groups against |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seth Moulton | $1.9M | $2.3M | $2.2M |
| Edward Markey | $1.1M | $43K | $3.4M |
| John Deaton | $0 | $670K | |
| Joseph Tache | $70K | ||
| Shiva Ayyadurai | $13K | ||
| Alexander Rikleen | $887 |
Biggest outside spenders
- Seth Moulton. For: ADVANCE PROGRESS $2.3M. Against: COMMONWEALTH TOGETHER PAC $2.2M
- Edward Markey. For: NRDC Action Votes $25K, National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee $18K. Against: ADVANCE PROGRESS $3.3M, COMMONWEALTH PROSPERITY FUND $62K
- John Deaton. For: COMMONWEALTH PROSPERITY FUND $670K
Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-11-02, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-10-14); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.
Results
Vote counts as reported by the state; transcribed from the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the state’s official results.
general election · official results
| Ed Markey (incumbent) won | 1,650,772 | 63.4% |
| John Deaton | 837,152 | 32.1% |
| Shiva Ayyadurai | 59,837 | 2.3% |
| Joe Tache | 56,530 | 2.2% |
Democratic primary
| Ed Markey (incumbent) won | 580,628 | 64.7% |
| Seth Moulton | 314,198 | 35.0% |
Republican primary
| John Deaton won | 221,950 | 99.3% |
Source: Wikipedia article revision (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-11-14 · parser wiki-race-1.0.0
Key dates
Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.
- 2026-09-01, Primary election: U.S. Senate
- 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. Senate
Source: FEC election dates (public domain).
Primary and hypothetical polls (22)
Kept on file, never averaged into this race. Polls listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each linked to that article revision and, where we know it, to the pollster's own site.
- Democratic primary · Emerson College · 2026-08-28–2026-08-29 · n=550 · Ed Markey (D) 60%,Seth Moulton (D) 33% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · University of New Hampshire · 2026-08-20–2026-08-24 · n=550 · Ed Markey (D) 63%,Seth Moulton (D) 28% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · University of New Hampshire · 2026-08-20–2026-08-24 · n=881 · Seth Moulton (D) 38%,John Deaton (R) 25% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Suffolk University · 2026-08-13–2026-08-16 · n=500 · Ed Markey (D) 52%,Seth Moulton (D) 38% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · UMass Amherst/YouGov · 2026-08-05–2026-08-12 · n=800 · Seth Moulton (D) 49%,John Deaton (R) 25% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · UMass Amherst/YouGov · 2026-08-05–2026-08-12 · n=445 · Ed Markey (D) 54%,Seth Moulton (D) 28% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · University of New Hampshire · 2026-06-18–2026-06-23 · n=370 · Ed Markey (D) 41%,Seth Moulton (D) 35% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · University of New Hampshire · 2026-06-18–2026-06-23 · n=623 · Seth Moulton (D) 50%,John Deaton (R) 30% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Emerson College · 2026-05-03–2026-05-04 · n=451 · Ed Markey (D) 37%,Seth Moulton (D) 32%,Alex Rikleen (D) 1% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · University of New Hampshire · 2026-04-16–2026-04-20 · n=600 · Seth Moulton (D) 56%,John Deaton (R) 25% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · University of New Hampshire · 2026-04-16–2026-04-20 · n=353 · Ed Markey (D) 46%,Seth Moulton (D) 33%,Alex Rikleen (D) 6% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Suffolk University · 2026-04-09–2026-04-13 · n=500 · Ed Markey (D) 47%,Seth Moulton (D) 30% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · University of New Hampshire · 2026-02-12–2026-02-16 · n=620 · Seth Moulton (D) 59%,John Deaton (R) 23% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · University of New Hampshire · 2026-02-12–2026-02-16 · n=352 · Ed Markey (D) 35%,Seth Moulton (D) 23%,Alex Rikleen (D) 7% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Suffolk University · 2025-11-19–2025-11-23 · n=226 · Ed Markey (D) 45%,Seth Moulton (D) 22% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Suffolk University · 2025-11-19–2025-11-23 · n=226 · Ayanna Pressley 35%,Ed Markey (D) 34%,Seth Moulton (D) 16% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · Suffolk University · 2025-11-19–2025-11-23 · n=500 · Seth Moulton (D) 52%,John Deaton (R) 29% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · University of New Hampshire · 2025-11-13–2025-11-17 · n=343 · Ed Markey (D) 34%,Seth Moulton (D) 25%,Alex Rikleen (D) 2% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · UMass Amherst/YouGov · 2025-10-21–2025-10-29 · n=416 · Ed Markey (D) 44%,Seth Moulton (D) 25%,Alex Rikleen (D) 5% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · UMass Amherst/YouGov · 2025-10-21–2025-10-29 · n=416 · Seth Moulton (D) 26%,Ayanna Pressley 23%,Michelle Wu 17%,Joseph P. Kennedy III 9%,Jake Auchincloss 5%,Alex Rikleen (D) 3% · pollster's site · release
- Democratic primary · Data for Progress (partisan) · 2025-10-23–2025-10-26 · n=652 · Ed Markey (D) 53%,Seth Moulton (D) 34% · pollster's site · release
- Hypothetical matchup · UMass Amherst/YouGov · 2025-02-14–2025-02-20 · n=700 · Ed Markey (D) 35%,Charlie Baker (R) 33% · pollster's site · release
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LabVugol Vector & Vugol Attention
Vugol Attention 37 Vugol Vector D · Anchored
Vugol Me model signals, not polls. Verified polling is in the Polls section above.
Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)
Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly
37OUT OF 100Low attention
Vugol Attention percentile51th
7-day momentum5 / 100
Source breadth50% of tracked
Candidate attention share · trailing 7 days100% D · 0% R
Seth Moulton (D) 100% · volume 20 / 7d
Vugol Vector
Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: medium
Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean
AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored
Completeness4 of 7 inputs (national, pres, incumbent, money) · missing: prior, pulse, poll
Evidenceno audit release · fundamentals only
Freshnessoldest input 2026-11-13 (yesterday)
The breakdown of this call (the model's multi-signal input matrix, input by input) is on Ultra Pro plans.
Desk data: daily telemetry
Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans
Sources
- Roster, official filings; fundraising from FEC datapoints where on file (https://api.open.fec.gov/).
- Vugol Attention inputs, Wikipedia pageviews (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) and GDELT news volume and tone (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
- Polls and results, individual polls and primary results listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each poll linked to the pollster's release; money and election dates from the FEC (public domain). How rows are checked.
- Models attention-1.0.0 · vector-1.1.0 · attention inputs SHA-256 b2a17446d68c · methodology · license CC BY 4.0 (data license).
Vugol Vector band: D · Anchored. Have a say in the Vugol race poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.
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- Our call for every race if today’s polls hold. A snapshot, not a win probability or a vote share.
- Vugol Tensor
- How sure we are: ranges and chamber-control odds around the Vector, built from past polling error. An experiment about uncertainty, not a better guess.
- Vugol Attention
- How much news and online noise a race gets, 0 to 100. It measures noise, not support: a high score says nothing about who is ahead.
- Vugol Pulse
- Our daily thumbs-up or thumbs-down question for readers. Anyone can answer, so it describes our readers, not the public. It is not a vote and never enters a poll average or any other signal.