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Override Vote History

Marblehead and 13 peer towns, FY1990 to FY2027. Every Prop 2½ operating override ballot question from the DOR Municipal Databank.

• 19 override votes in Marblehead since 1991; 6 passed, 13 did not
• Last significant operating override: FY2006, $2.73M (passed 3,869 to 3,456)
• Peer towns like Arlington, Brookline, Needham, and Wellesley have passed overrides more recently and more frequently

Marblehead: 35 years of override votes

Height = vote margin. Circle size = dollar amount. Stems above the line passed; below did not.

Peer towns: who overrides, and how often?

Each dot is a ballot question. Filled = passed, hollow = did not pass. Towns sorted by most recent win.

Notes and sources

Override vote data from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services Municipal Databank. The peer set matches the 14 towns tracked in peer_override_history.csv: Arlington, Brookline, Cohasset, Framingham, Hingham, Lexington, Marblehead, Melrose, Natick, Needham, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wellesley, Winchester.

One Marblehead row (FY2025, "Fix Clerk Error", 0 votes, $0) is excluded as a clerical correction, not an actual ballot question.

Vote margins are calculated as yes votes minus no votes. Some fiscal years had multiple ballot questions (e.g. Marblehead FY2005 had six questions, Needham FY1997 had ten). Each question is shown as a separate dot.