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Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor

The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican Michael Minogue in the election.

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What this story says

  • Maura Healey won re-election as governor of Massachusetts.
  • She defeated Republican candidate Michael Minogue.
  • Healey will begin her second term as governor.
  • She previously served two terms as attorney general.

Who covered it

Left 59%(19)Centre 41%(13)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 32 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 4 of the 36 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

67/100

Hype

15/100

36 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 32 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Maura Healey has won re-election as governor of Massachusetts. The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican challenger Michael Minogue. Healey will begin her second term in office, having previously served two terms as the state's attorney general.

Coverage

What the coverage left out

No right-rated digests mentioned Maura Healey's re-election as governor of Massachusetts.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 6 times, most recently on 4 Nov 2026, 03:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

19 rated outlets

  • Thirteen left-rated digests reported that Maura Healey won re-election as governor of Massachusetts, defeating Republican Michael Minogue. These digests stated that Healey will begin her second term after previously serving two terms as attorney general. LGBTQ Nation's digest included a quote from Healey: “I’m proud of who I am and what I get to do every day," she told LGBTQ Nation. Several digests noted Healey is the first openly lesbian governor in Massachusetts.

Centre

13 rated outlets

  • Five centre-rated digests reported Maura Healey's re-election as governor of Massachusetts, noting her defeat of Republican Michael Minogue. These digests confirmed she will begin her second term. WGBH's digest stated the Democratic incumbent leveraged anti-Trump sentiment to win. MeadowlakeNOW and CFJC Today's digests mentioned Healey is the first woman and openly lesbian governor in Massachusetts.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor?
Of the 32 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 59% are rated left, 41% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 36. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 32 rated outlets on this story, 59% are rated left, 41% are rated centre, 0% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor biased?
Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor is one event reported by 36 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Maura Healey wins second term as Massachusetts governor?
36 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Who won the Massachusetts gubernatorial election?
Maura Healey won re-election as governor of Massachusetts. She defeated Republican challenger Michael Minogue to secure her second term in office.
What was Maura Healey's previous role?
Before becoming governor, Maura Healey served two terms as the attorney general of Massachusetts. She is now beginning her second term as governor.
Did any right-rated outlets cover the election?
Based on the provided digests, no right-rated outlets covered Maura Healey's re-election as governor of Massachusetts.

Read it at the source

107 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

57
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Centre

38
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Right

4

Not rated

8

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