BOSTON — Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren won a third term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

Warren fended off a challenge from Republican John Deaton, an attorney who moved to the state from Rhode Island earlier this year.

Of the 30 cities and towns across Franklin County and the North Quabbin region, Deaton was only favored in five municipalities: Athol, Monroe, Orange, Phillipston and Royalston.

Across the region, Warren saw some of her most prominent victories in Greenfield, where she claimed 6,555 votes to Deaton’s 2,630, as well as Leverett, where she took 1,095 votes to Deaton’s 191 votes, and Montague, where 3,213 votes were cast for her compared to Deaton’s 1,461. Similarly, Shutesbury saw 1,030 Warren votes compared to 195 Deaton votes, and Sunderland saw 1,391 voters support Warren compared to 462 backing Deaton. Some towns had more narrow margins of victory for Warren, such as Rowe, where she edged out Deaton 135-123.

Warren cast herself as a champion for an embattled middle class and a critic of regulations benefiting the wealthy. She has remained popular in the state despite coming in third in Massachusetts in her 2020 bid for president. In his campaign against her, Deaton tried to portray the former Harvard Law School professor as being out of touch with ordinary Massachusetts residents.

Warren first burst onto the national scene during the 2008 financial crisis with calls for tougher consumer safeguards, resulting in the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

She has gone on to become one of her party’s most prominent liberal voices.

“I first ran for the Senate because I saw how the system is rigged for the rich and the powerful and against everyone else, and I won because Massachusetts voters know it, too,” Warren said in a recent campaign ad.

In 2012, Warren defeated Republican Scott Brown, who was elected after the death of longtime Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy to serve out the last two years of his term. Six years later, she easily defeated Republican challenger Geoff Diehl.

During the campaign, Deaton likened himself to former popular moderate Republican Massachusetts governors like Bill Weld and Charlie Baker, and said he did not support Donald Trump’s bid for a second term as president.

Although the candidates have taken similar stands on some issues, they’ve tried to sharply distinguish themselves from each other.

Both expressed sympathy for migrants entering the country but faulted each other for not doing enough to confront the country’s border crisis during a debate on WBZ-TV. Both said they support abortion rights.

Warren’s popularity failed to translate when she ran for the White House in 2020. After a relatively strong start, Warren’s presidential hopes faded in part under withering criticism from Trump who taunted her over her claims of Native American heritage.

She ultimately finished third in Massachusetts, behind Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Greenfield Recorder Staff Writer Anthony Cammalleri contributed to this report.