2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Massachusetts voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[1]
In the general election, Clinton won Massachusetts with 60.98% of the vote, while Trump received 33.34%. This marked the fourth consecutive election in which the Democratic candidate won over 60% of the vote, and the seventh in a row in which they won in every single county in the state, thus making Massachusetts and Hawaii the only states in which Clinton won every single county. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has maintained extremely large Democratic margins since 1996. It also marked the fourth consecutive election in which both the Democratic and Republican vote shares in Massachusetts fell; since 2004, the combined vote shares of the two major parties in the Commonwealth has gradually declined from 98.72% to 94.32%. Trump became the first Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 to win the town of Ware.
Primary elections[]
Democratic primary[]
 | This section should include a summary of Massachusetts Democratic primary, 2016. (July 2016) |
| Candidate | Popular vote[2] | Estimated delegates[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Hillary Clinton | 606,822 | 49.73% | 46 | 21 | 67 |
| Bernie Sanders | 589,803 | 48.33% | 45 | 1 | 46 |
| Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 4,783 | 0.39% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rocky De La Fuente | 1,545 | 0.13% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No preference | 8,090 | 0.66% | – | 2 | 2 |
| All others | 4,927 | 0.40% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blank votes | 4,326 | 0.35% | – | – | – |
| Total | 1,220,296 | 100% | 91 | 24 | 115 |
Republican primary[]
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
| Donald Trump | 312,425 | 48.99% | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| John Kasich | 114,434 | 17.94% | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Marco Rubio | 113,170 | 17.75% | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Ted Cruz | 60,592 | 9.50% | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Ben Carson | 16,360 | 2.57% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeb Bush (withdrawn) | 6,559 | 1.03% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No Preference | 3,220 | 0.50% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 2,325 | 0.36% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Christie (withdrawn) | 1,906 | 0.30% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rand Paul (withdrawn) | 1,864 | 0.29% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blank Votes | 1,440 | 0.23% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) | 1,153 | 0.18% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) | 753 | 0.12% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) | 709 | 0.11% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| George Pataki (withdrawn) | 500 | 0.08% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rick Santorum (withdrawn) | 293 | 0.05% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total: | 637,703 | 100.00% | 42 | 0 | 42 |
| Source: The Green Papers | |||||
Green-Rainbow primary[]
The Massachusetts primary took place on March 1. 5 candidates appeared on the ballot, the results are as follows:
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | National delegates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jill Stein | 768 | 45.7% | 5 |
| Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry | 78 | 4.7% | 1 |
| Darryl Cherney | 54 | 3.2% | 0 |
| Kent Mesplay | 37 | 2.2% | 0 |
| William Kreml | 24 | 1.4% | 0 |
| Others | 436 | 25.9% | 4 |
| No Preference | 199 | 11.8% | |
| Blank votes | 85 | 5.0% | n/a |
| Total | 1,681 | 100.00% | 10 |
Any members of the party could apply to be delegates to be sent to the national convention, and had until March 10 (over a week after the primary) to apply.[6][7] The number of voters that took part in the election slightly increased from the 1,554 that took part in the 2012 primary.[8]
United Independent primary[]
Ballots were available for voters enrolled in this party, but there were no candidates for office.
General election[]
Clinton improved on Obama's 2012 performance by around 4%, due to a large swing to the Democrat in the metropolitan Boston area, while the New Bedford and Fall River areas and the western part of Massachusetts, particularly eastern Berkshire County, swung to Trump.[9]
Predictions[]
The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Massachusetts as of Election Day.
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Times[10] | Safe D | November 6, 2016 |
| CNN[11] | Safe D | November 4, 2016 |
| Cook Political Report[12] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Electoral-vote.com[13] | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Rothenberg Political Report[14] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[15] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
| RealClearPolitics[16] | Safe D | November 8, 2016 |
| Fox News[17] | Safe D | November 7, 2016 |
Polling[]
Hillary Clinton won every single pre-election poll by upper double digits. The final poll showed Clinton with 56% to Trump's 26%, and the average of the final 3 polls showed Hillary Clinton leading Trump 56% to 27%.[18]
Results[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
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1,995,196 | 60.01 | ||
| Republican |
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1,090,893 | 32.81 | ||
| Libertarian |
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138,018 | 4.15 | ||
| Green-Rainbow |
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47,661 | 1.43 | ||
| Independent |
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2,719 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent |
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28 | 0.00 | ||
| Independent |
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28 | 0.00 | ||
| Workers World[22] |
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15 | 0.00 | ||
| Independent |
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0 | 0.00 | ||
| Write-in | 50,488 | 1.52 | |||
| Total votes | 3,325,046 | 100% | |||
| Democratic win | |||||
By county[]
| County | Clinton% | Clinton# | Trump% | Trump# | Others% | Others# | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable | 53.34% | 72,430 | 39.84% | 54,099 | 6.81% | 9,252 | 135,781 |
| Berkshire | 66.62% | 43,714 | 25.66% | 16,839 | 7.72% | 5,064 | 65,617 |
| Bristol | 51.38% | 129,540 | 41.82% | 105,443 | 6.80% | 17,157 | 252,140 |
| Dukes | 71.95% | 8,400 | 21.22% | 2,477 | 6.83% | 797 | 11,674 |
| Essex | 57.69% | 222,310 | 35.37% | 136,316 | 6.94% | 26,744 | 385,370 |
| Franklin | 63.05% | 24,478 | 26.70% | 10,364 | 10.25% | 3,979 | 38,821 |
| Hampden | 54.63% | 112,590 | 38.18% | 78,685 | 7.19% | 14,826 | 206,101 |
| Hampshire | 65.76% | 55,367 | 25.88% | 21,790 | 8.36% | 7,036 | 84,193 |
| Middlesex | 65.31% | 520,360 | 27.59% | 219,793 | 7.10% | 56,582 | 796,735 |
| Nantucket | 63.71% | 4,146 | 29.07% | 1,892 | 7.22% | 470 | 6,508 |
| Norfolk | 60.33% | 221,819 | 32.56% | 119,723 | 7.11% | 26,153 | 367,695 |
| Plymouth | 49.97% | 135,513 | 42.54% | 115,369 | 7.48% | 20,295 | 271,177 |
| Suffolk | 78.44% | 245,751 | 16.09% | 50,421 | 5.46% | 17,111 | 313,283 |
| Worcester | 50.98% | 198,778 | 40.44% | 157,682 | 8.59% | 33,491 | 389,951 |
See also[]
- United States presidential elections in Massachusetts
- 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
- 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- 2016 Green Party presidential primaries
- 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
- 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
References[]
- ^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration. 19 September 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
- ^ "2016 President Democratic Primary". Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ The Green Papers
- ^ "2016 President Green-rainbow Primary". Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Government of Massachusetts. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Official results: Stein wins Massachusetts Green Rainbow Party presidential primary with 48.1%". Green Party Watch. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ "Massachusetts Green Party Presidential Primary Will List Five Candidates". Independent Political Report. 2016-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ^ "2016 Green-Rainbow Party Presidential Primary". MA Green-Rainbow Party. 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ^ "Massachusetts Secretary of State Releases Green Party Presidential Primary Results". Ballot Access News. 2015-04-07. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "What on Earth Happened in 2016, Part 4 – Massachusetts Presidential Election + Marijuana Referendum".
- ^ "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times. 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ^ Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ "Presidential Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
- ^ Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ^ "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ^ "RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - Massachusetts: Trump vs. Clinton".
- ^ Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. "2016 President General Election". Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Federal Election Commission (December 2017). "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). p. 33. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Post-Election Audit Form – Franklin Precinct 3" (PDF). Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "16 presidential candidates you didn't know are running in 2016 – Blog: 16 for 16". PBS. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
External links[]
- RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
- Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions
- Decision Desk Headquarter Results for Massachusetts
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