Westport voters don’t want more housing on smaller lots. They want recreational marijuana sales to remain legal. And while they agreed with voters across Massachusetts on most ballot questions, they broke with the statewide majority on proposals involving state revenue limits and same-day voter registration.

More than 8,500 Westport residents cast ballots in last Tuesday’s election, whether at the polls, through early voting or by other means. That’s a sharp increase from the turnout two years ago.

Here’s how Westport voted on the statewide ballot questions:

Question 7: Minimum lot sizes

With just one contested local race — for the Eighth Bristol District seat in the House of Representatives (see separate story) — perhaps the most consequential local vote came on Question 7, which would have amended state law to standardize the minimum buildable lot size across Massachusetts at 5,000 square feet.

Affordable housing advocates pushed for the measure, saying it would give young families more opportunities to build and own homes in a state where housing costs are through the roof. But Westport officials feared its passage would forever change the town’s rural character.

Currently, the minimum buildable lot size in Westport is 40,000 square feet. Reducing that by a factor of eight would have wide-ranging negative consequences, town officials said.

Statewide results were razor-thin, but ultimately the measure failed by less than 1 percentage point — 1.288 million votes against and 1.255 million in favor.

The margin was much wider in Westport, where voters rejected the change by more than 2 to 1. According to updated vote totals released Monday by Town Clerk Kristin Stinson, 5,583 Westport residents voted against the measure, compared with 2,612 who supported it.

The defeat came as welcome news to Westport officials, who argued that decisions about minimum lot sizes should be left to individual communities.

“Those choices belong at the local level,” planning board Chairman James Whitin wrote to Shorelines a week before the election.

“Planning boards, town meetings, city councils, elected officials and residents are in the best position to balance the need for housing against infrastructure capacity, water resources, wastewater disposal, transportation, environmental protection and the character of their communities,” he wrote.

“Massachusetts needs more housing, and the Commonwealth has an important role in helping communities produce it. But there is an important distinction between providing communities with the resources and incentives to create housing and taking away their authority to decide where and at what density that housing should be built.”

Other questions

Question 1: Public records

Westport voters overwhelmingly approved a measure that also passed statewide, expanding the public records law to include the governor and state Legislature, which previously were exempt from some disclosure requirements.

Westport voted 6,821 to 1,437 in favor of the change.

Question 2: Public defenders

Westport voters joined their counterparts across the state in approving a measure allowing state public defenders to unionize.

The margin was much narrower in Westport than statewide. While 1.6 million Massachusetts voters supported the measure, compared with 908,000 opposed, the vote in Westport was nearly evenly split: 4,122 in favor and 4,004 against.

Question 3: State primaries

Westport voters joined the statewide majority in rejecting a proposal to eliminate separate party primaries for state elections in favor of a single primary open to all candidates.

Westport rejected the measure, 5,103 to 3,168.

Question 4: Same-day voter registration

Westport broke with the statewide majority on a measure allowing eligible citizens to register to vote or update their voter registration address on Election Day.

Although the measure passed statewide, Westport voters rejected it, 4,751 to 3,509.

Question 5: State revenue limits

Westport also bucked the statewide results by approving a proposal to limit how much revenue the state can collect each year and provide refunds to taxpayers if collections exceed that limit.

Statewide, voters rejected the measure, leaving existing law unchanged. But Westport approved it, 4,238 to 3,878.

Question 6: Conservation funding

Westport voters joined the statewide majority in approving a measure directing state taxes generated by sales of recreational goods, sporting goods and golf courses into a fund for natural resource conservation.

While the measure passed by a roughly 3-to-2 margin statewide, it narrowly won in Westport, 4,150 to 4,004.

Question 8: Recreational marijuana

Westport voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to repeal the 2016 law legalizing recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, mirroring the statewide result.

In Westport, the repeal proposal failed, 6,102 to 2,295.

Question 9: Gun regulations

Finally, Westport voters joined the statewide majority in upholding a 2024 gun reform law that tightened firearms regulations, including restrictions on machine guns and assault-style weapons.

But the margin was much narrower locally. While the law was upheld by roughly a 2-to-1 margin statewide, Westport voters supported keeping it by just 265 votes, 4,348 to 4,062.