The City of Somerville completed the first-ever Participatory Budgeting cycle in 2023. In Participatory Budgeting, residents submit ideas for how to improve Somerville with one million dollars; volunteers score and select the 20 best ideas; and residents vote on the final ideas.

Voters could choose and rank up to 5 ideas out of the 20 selected final ideas. This dataset provides the number of votes in each rank slot for each of the final ideas.

ESRI point feature class representing City of Somerville, Massachusetts polling places for the for the voter precincts based on the 2020 Census. Last updated September 18, 2023.

ESRI polygon feature class representing City of Somerville, Massachusetts voter precincts based on the 2020 Census. Last updated September 22, 2023.