Gov. Healey intends to run for reelection in 2026, she said last Friday. “When Kim [Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll] and I started, we laid out in our inaugural address things that we wanted to do. We wanted to get after housing, and we wanted to get after transportation, we wanted to cut taxes, we wanted to make investments in education,” the governor said on GBH Radio last Friday(Feb. 7). “And I feel like we’ve done all those things, and there’s a heck of a lot more to do. And so, I plan to run for reelection, because there’s a lot more to do.”

The first woman to be elected governor of Massachusetts, Healey has in her first two years signed major laws related to incentivizing housing development, expanding clean energy, further regulating hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry, and making tax cuts.

Her administration has also handled of a number of crises, among them the growing number of homeless families putting logistical and financial strains on the state’s emergency shelters, and a for-profit hospital system that collapsed last year, shuttering two hospitals. 
“I’m really proud of the record so far,” Healey said on Friday.