A Small Town That Still Decides for Itself.
The Mother Town of the Tri-Town
Incorporated 1686
Farms, ponds, stone walls and open town meeting — Rochester has kept its character for more than three centuries because its people insisted on it. We’re the Republicans of that town: supporting good local candidates, keeping neighbors informed, and standing up for the families, farms and taxpayers who make Rochester what it is.
How Rochester Voted
3,315 Rochester voters cast ballots, and in every contested race for Governor, Congress, the State House, the State Senate and the county, Rochester chose the Republican. Thank you to every neighbor who voted, and to every volunteer and poll worker who made it happen.
Votes cast in the Town of Rochester only, from the Town Clerk’s uncertified results posted November 4, 2026. They are not district-wide or statewide results and are subject to certification. Full town results, including the ballot questions, are at townofrochestermass.com.
Rochester gave the Tri-Town its first town, its first meeting house and its name. We’re working to keep it a place where the people — not the bureaucracy — still decide.
Small-Town Character
Keeping Rochester rural, affordable and itself — its farms, its open space and its right to decide its own future at town meeting.
Government Closest to the People
Government “of, by, and for the people” that respects taxpayers, minimizes its intervention in citizens’ lives, and measures success by results.
An Informed, Involved Community
Supporting qualified local candidates, keeping neighbors informed on what town government is doing, and welcoming everyone to the table.
Read our full Mission, Vision, and the Republican Oath that guides the committee.
We are the Rochester Republican Town Committee. We meet on the second Monday of every month at 6:30 PM at the Ponderosa Sportsman’s Club, 242 Robinson Road, Acushnet, and all Republicans and Independents are welcome. Want to know what’s happening in Town government? See our Town Meetings page. You can also find the committee at rochestermartc.org.
The town was officially incorporated on June 4, 1686, as Rochester, named for Rochester, England.
— Rochester’s beginning, as the public record tells it. Settled in 1679 on land the Wampanoag called Sippican, Old Rochester once reached the sea; Marion and Mattapoisett grew up inside it and became towns of their own in the 1850s. What stayed behind was a town of farms and ponds that still runs its own affairs by open town meeting.