recent years, with George H. W. Bush in 1988 being the last Republican presidential candidate to manage forty percent of the county's votes and Mitt Romney in 2012 being the last Republican presidential candidate to manage even thirty percent of the vote. In 2020, Joe Biden won 71% of the vote, the highest percent for any presidential candidate since 1964. |} Communities Most municipalities in Middlesex County have a town form of government; the remainder are cities, and are so designated on this list. Villages listed below are census or postal divisions, but have no separate corporate or statutory existence from the cities and towns in which they are located. Cities Cambridge (traditional county seat) de jure Everett Framingham Lowell (traditional county seat) Malden Marlborough Medford Melrose Newton Somerville Waltham Watertown Woburn Towns Acton Arlington Ashby Ashland Ayer Bedford Belmont Billerica Boxborough Burlington Carlisle Chelmsford Concord Dracut Dunstable Groton Holliston Hopkinton Hudson Lexington Lincoln Littleton Maynard Natick North Reading Pepperell Reading Sherborn Shirley Stoneham Stow Sudbury Tewksbury Townsend Tyngsborough Wakefield Wayland Westford Weston Wilmington Winchester Census-designated places Ayer Cochituate Devens East Pepperell Groton Hopkinton Littleton Common Pepperell Pinehurst Shirley Townsend West Concord Other villages and neighborhoods Auburndale Chestnut Hill East Lexington Felchville Forge Village Gleasondale Graniteville Greenwood Melrose Highlands Nabnasset Newton Centre Newton Highlands Newton Lower Falls Newton Upper Falls Newtonville Nonantum North Billerica North Chelmsford North Woburn Pingryville Saxonville Thompsonville Waban West Newton Education School districts include: K-12: Ayer-Shirley School District Acton-Boxborough Regional School District Arlington School District Ashland School District Bedford School District Belmont School District Billerica School District Burlington School District Cambridge Public School District Chelmsford School District Dracut School District Everett School District Framingham School District Groton-Dunstable School District Holliston School District Hopkinton School District Hudson School District Lexington School District Littleton School District Lowell Public Schools Malden School District Marlborough School District Maynard School District Medford Public Schools Melrose School District Nashoba School District Natick School District Newton School District North Middlesex School District North Reading School District Reading Public Schools Somerville School District Stoneham School District Tewksbury School District Tyngsborough School District Wakefield School District Waltham School District Watertown School District Wayland School District Westford School District Weston School District Wilmington School District Winchester School District Woburn School District Secondary: Concord-Carlisle School District Dover-Sherborn School District Lincoln-Sudbury School District Elementary: Carlisle School District Concord School District Lincoln School District Sherborn School District Sudbury School