By Fernando Cervantes Jr.

On March 5, the Somerville Democratic Ward Committees met to select delegates to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention on June 3 and 4. Committees for Wards 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 met to select these delegates.

According to an email from the Maura Healey Campaign, 54 delegates were elected for the Maura Healey camp to represent the candidate at the Convention in June. Candidates need at least 325 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Currently there are four candidates in contention to the Democratic Nomination, Josh Caldwell, Sonia Chang-Diaz, Orlando Silva and Maura Healey competing for the nomination.

For many political analysts, winning the nomination means an almost assured win in the gubernatorial race.

According to campaign finance reports from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) the Healey Campaign raised more than $400,000 in February alone.

Compared to other Democratic challengers, the Healey campaign has ten times more cash on hand than all other primary candidates combined.

According to Justin Klekota, Democratic State Committeeman for Somerville talked about the Healey Campaign’s reaction to the Somerville delegate elections.

“The campaign is very happy with the outcome, we worked really hard to identify delegate candidates as well as encourage our supporters to attend their caucuses,” Klekota said.

Apart from the positive results in the elections, Healey is also seeing great support from Somerville’s Major Katjana Ballantyne.

“I think Katjana deserves credit for helping us kind of build the momentum that fed directly into the caucuses,” Klekota said.

According to Klekota, the Healey campaign is looking to build a grassroots campaign and is currently showing great progress in doing so.

“We expect to run a strong grassroots campaign in every city so we’re in the organization building phase,” Klekota said. “It’s actually showing really good progress in a very short period of time.”

Looking back at the results from the caucuses, Klekota had a message to Somerville voters.

“Thank you, we grateful for their support during the caucuses. We definitely appreciated the great attendance to the town hall and all the questions,” Klekota said.