BOSTON, MA, NOVEMBER 5, 2008 – Eighty seven percent of voters in eleven Massachusetts towns in the south shore voted Yes on Question 4, a non-binding question that read:

Should the state representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of legislation that would support the development of Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound and other possible future onshore and offshore wind power developments in Massachusetts?

73,397 of the 84,417 voters who answered this question answered Yes.

This is consistent with two independent public opinion surveys carried out in March, 2008 that each found 86% statewide support for Cape Wind. One of these surveys was conducted by CBS-4 Boston and the other was commissioned by Civil Society Institute (CSI). CSI also found support for Cape Wind on Cape Cod and the Islands to be 74%.

Question 4 on Cape Wind was included in the ballots of Massachusetts voters in the towns of: Braintree, Holbrook, Randolph, Cohasett, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Scituate, Hanover, Norwell and Rockland.

Several citizens organizations active in those communities worked together to compose the language of the question and to gather the necessary signatures to get the question on the ballot, including: Sustainable Braintree, Sustainable Hanover, Sustainable Cohasset, Sustainable Scituate, and Hingham REACH Wind Committee.

Note: Click here to see the town by town results for this ballot question as reported in the Boston Globe (you may need to scroll down when page opens)