2020 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
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The 2020 United States presidential election in Massachusetts was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated.[3] Massachusetts voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[4]
Biden easily carried Massachusetts with a 33-point margin, the largest margin whereby any nominee had carried the state since 1964. Massachusetts was one of three states where Biden won every county, the other two being Rhode Island and Hawaii. It was the eighth election in a row that the Democratic candidate carried every single county in the state. It is also the highest percentage of the popular vote that a winning presidential candidate has received in the state since Lyndon B. Johnson won the state with over 70% of the vote back in 1964. It is also the second time that a presidential candidate has won Suffolk County with over 80% of the vote in presidential history after Lyndon B. Johnson won the county with over 80% of the vote back in 1964, and the second time that a presidential candidate has won Middlesex County with over 70% of the vote since 1964.[5] In addition, Biden won the following counties with the highest percentage of the popular vote that was seen for a Democratic presidential candidate in history: Barnstable County, Dukes County, and Nantucket County. Biden won nearly 2.4 million votes, the most received by a Democrat in a presidential election in the state's history.
Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has maintained extremely large Democratic margins since 1996, and this remained true in 2020, with Massachusetts being one of six states (along with Hawaii, Vermont, Maryland, California, and New York) that gave Biden over 60% of the vote. Massachusetts is ethnically diverse, highly urbanized, highly educated, and among the least religious states. Per exit polls by the Associated Press, Biden's strength in Massachusetts came from college-educated voters, which he won with 74% of the vote, which carries particular weight in Massachusetts, as the state contains the highest proportion of graduates in the country.[6] Trump's slip among suburban white voters led Biden to carry almost every municipality in the Greater Boston area by at least 60% or more, while Trump carried only several towns on the South Shore and in Central Massachusetts. Biden won 301 of the 351 municipalities.[7] Biden swept all demographic groups, garnering 63% of whites, 84% of Latinos, 58% of Catholics, 56% of Protestants, and 86% of Jewish voters. Additionally, Biden won 52% of whites without a college degree within the state.[6] Trump had the worst vote share in Massachusetts of any Republican nominee since 1996, and slightly underperformed George W. Bush's 32.5% vote share in 2000.
Massachusetts was one of five states in the nation in which Biden's victory margin was larger than 1 million raw votes, the others being California, Maryland, New York and Illinois.
Primary elections[]
Presidential preference primaries were scheduled for March 3, 2020, for each of the political parties with state ballot access.
Democratic primary[]
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden were among the declared major Democratic candidates. Elizabeth Warren, one of the two current senators from Massachusetts, formed an exploratory committee in December 2018 and declared her intention to run in February 2019.[8][9]
Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[11] |
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Joe Biden | 473,861 | 33.41 | 45 |
Bernie Sanders | 376,990 | 26.58 | 30 |
Elizabeth Warren | 303,864 | 21.43 | 16 |
Michael Bloomberg | 166,200 | 11.72 | |
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn†) | 38,400 | 2.71 | |
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn†) | 17,297 | 1.22 | |
Tulsi Gabbard | 10,548 | 0.74 | |
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) | 6,923 | 0.49 | |
Tom Steyer (withdrawn†) | 6,762 | 0.48 | |
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) | 2,708 | 0.19 | |
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) | 1,257 | 0.09 | |
John Delaney (withdrawn) | 675 | 0.05 | |
Marianne Williamson (withdrawn) | 617 | 0.04 | |
Cory Booker (withdrawn) | 426 | 0.03 | |
Julian Castro (withdrawn) | 305 | 0.02 | |
No Preference | 5,345 | 0.38 | |
Blank ballots | 4,061 | 0.29 | |
All Others | 1,941 | 0.14 | |
Total | 1,418,180 | 100% | 91 |
Republican primary[]
Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker declined to run, as did former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator Mitt Romney.[12][13][14][15]
2020 Massachusetts Republican presidential primary[16] | |||
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Candidate | Popular vote | Delegates | |
Count | Percentage | ||
Donald Trump | 239,115 | 86.32 | 41 |
Bill Weld | 25,425 | 9.18 | 0 |
Joe Walsh (withdrawn) | 3,008 | 1.09 | 0 |
Rocky De La Fuente | 675 | 0.24 | 0 |
No Preference | 4,385 | 1.58 | 0 |
Blank ballots | 2,242 | 0.81 | 0 |
All Others | 2,152 | 0.78 | 0 |
Total | 277,002 | 100% | 41 |
Libertarian primary[]
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Election results by county[a]
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A number of Libertarian candidates declared for the race, including New Hampshire State Representative Max Abramson, Adam Kokesh, Vermin Supreme and former Libertarian National Committee vice-chair Arvin Vohra.[17][18][19]
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
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All others | 958 | 23.0% |
No preference | 804 | 19.3% |
Vermin Supreme | 399 | 10.4% |
Jacob Hornberger | 369 | 9.6% |
Blanks | 324 | 7.8% |
Dan Behrman | 294 | 7.7% |
Kim Ruff (withdrawn) | 224 | 5.8% |
Arvin Vohra | 151 | 3.9% |
Ken Armstrong | 145 | 3.8% |
Jo Jorgensen | 141 | 3.4% |
Sam Robb | 127 | 3.1% |
Adam Kokesh | 125 | 3% |
Max Abramson | 98 | 2.4% |
Total | 4,159 | 100% |
Green primary[]
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | National delegates |
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Dario Hunter | 224 | 16.9 | 2 |
Howie Hawkins | 217 | 16.4 | 1 |
Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry | 141 | 10.6 | 1 |
Kent Mesplay | 55 | 4.1 | 0 |
David Rolde | 4 | 0.3 | 0 |
Write-In | 369 | 27.8 | 0 |
No Preference | 316 | 23.8 | 7 |
Total | 1326 | 100.00% | 11 |
General election[]
Predictions[]
Source | Ranking | As of |
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The Cook Political Report[22] | Safe D | September 10, 2020 |
Inside Elections[23] | Safe D | September 4, 2020 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball[24] | Safe D | July 14, 2020 |
Politico[25] | Safe D | September 8, 2020 |
RCP[26] | Safe D | August 3, 2020 |
Niskanen[27] | Safe D | July 26, 2020 |
CNN[28] | Safe D | August 3, 2020 |
The Economist[29] | Safe D | September 2, 2020 |
270towin[30] | Safe D | August 2, 2020 |
ABC News[31] | Safe D | July 31, 2020 |
NBC News[32] | Safe D | August 6, 2020 |
538[33] | Safe D | September 9, 2020 |
Polling[]
Graphical summary[]
Aggregate polls
Source of poll aggregation |
Dates administered |
Dates updated |
Joe Biden Democratic |
Donald Trump Republican |
Other/ Undecided [b] |
Margin |
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270 to Win | October 17 – November 2, 2020 | November 3, 2020 | 65.0% | 28.7% | 6.3% | Biden +36.3 |
RealClearPolitics | July 31 – August 27, 2020 | September 15, 2020 | 64.0% | 28.3% | 7.7% | Biden +35.7 |
FiveThirtyEight | until November 2, 2020 | November 3, 2020 | 64.6% | 28.9% | 6.5% | Biden +35.8 |
Average | 64.5% | 28.6% | 6.8% | Biden +35.9 |
- Polls
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size[c] |
Margin of error |
Donald Trump Republican |
Joe Biden Democratic |
Jo Jorgensen Libertarian |
Howie Hawkins Green |
Other | Undecided |
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MassInc | Oct 23–30, 2020 | 929 (LV) | – | 28% | 62% | - | - | 8%[d] | 2% |
SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 1–28, 2020 | 5,848 (LV) | – | 28% | 70% | - | - | – | – |
YouGov/UMass Amherst | Oct 14–21, 2020 | 713 (LV) | – | 29% | 64% | - | - | 3%[e] | 3% |
SurveyMonkey/Axios | Sep 1–30, 2020 | 2,655 (LV) | – | 32% | 66% | - | - | – | 2% |
SurveyMonkey/Axios | Aug 1–31, 2020 | 2,286 (LV) | – | 29% | 69% | - | - | – | 2% |
Emerson College/WHDH | Aug 25–27, 2020 | 763 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 31% | 69% | - | - | – | – |
MassINC/WBUR | Aug 6–9, 2020 | 501 (LV) | ± 4.4% | 27% | 63% | - | - | 5%[f] | 4% |
UMass/YouGov | Jul 31 – Aug 7, 2020 | 500 (RV) | ± 5.9% | 28% | 61% | - | - | – | – |
SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jul 1–31, 2020 | 2,509 (LV) | – | 26% | 72% | - | - | – | 2% |
MassINC | Jul 17–20, 2020 | 797 (RV) | – | 23% | 55% | - | - | 10%[g] | 12% |
SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jun 8–30, 2020 | 1,091 (LV) | – | 27% | 71% | - | - | – | 2% |
Emerson College/7 News | May 4–5, 2020 | 740 (RV) | ± 3.5% | 33%[h] | 67% | - | - | – | – |
University of Massachusetts Lowell/YouGov | Apr 27 – May 1, 2020 | 1,000 (RV) | ± 3.6% | 30% | 58% | - | - | 7%[i] | 4% |
Emerson College | Apr 4–7, 2019 | 761 (RV) | ± 3.5% | 31% | 69% | - | - | – | – |
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Results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Joe Biden Kamala Harris |
2,382,202 | 65.60% | +4.62% | |
Republican | Donald Trump Mike Pence |
1,167,202 | 32.14% | -1.20% | |
Libertarian | Jo Jorgensen Spike Cohen |
47,013 | 1.29% | -2.93% | |
Green | Howie Hawkins Angela Walker |
18,658 | 0.51% | -0.95% | |
Write-in | 16,327 | 0.45% | |||
Total votes | 3,631,402 | 100.00% | 1.49% |
By county[]
County | Joseph R. Biden
Democratic |
Donald J. Trump
Republican |
Jo Jorgensen
Libertarian |
Howie Hawkins
Green |
Total votes cast | ||
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# | % | # | % | # | # | ||
Barnstable | 91,994 | 60.72% | 55,311 | 36.50% | 1,856 | 638 | 151,512 |
Berkshire | 51,705 | 72.04% | 18,064 | 25.17% | 927 | 465 | 71,771 |
Bristol | 153,377 | 54.51% | 119,872 | 42.60% | 3,667 | 1,427 | 281,364 |
Dukes | 9,914 | 77.04% | 2,631 | 20.44% | 138 | 82 | 12,873 |
Essex | 267,198 | 62.93% | 144,837 | 34.11% | 5,356 | 1,899 | 424,599 |
Franklin | 30,030 | 69.83% | 11,201 | 26.05% | 692 | 380 | 43,003 |
Hampden | 125,948 | 57.04% | 87,318 | 39.54% | 2,971 | 1,166 | 220,793 |
Hampshire | 63,362 | 71.73% | 22,281 | 25.22% | 1,086 | 768 | 88,332 |
Middlesex | 617,196 | 71.00% | 226,956 | 26.11% | 10,649 | 4,484 | 869,347 |
Nantucket | 5,241 | 71.42% | 1,914 | 26.08% | 81 | 41 | 7,338 |
Norfolk | 273,312 | 66.49% | 125,294 | 30.48% | 5,191 | 1,753 | 411,042 |
Plymouth | 173,630 | 57.14% | 121,227 | 39.89% | 4,310 | 1,324 | 303,870 |
Suffolk | 270,522 | 80.22% | 58,613 | 17.38% | 2,959 | 1,695 | 337,240 |
Worcester | 248,773 | 57.20% | 171,683 | 39.47% | 7,130 | 2,536 | 434,921 |
By congressional district[]
Biden won all nine congressional districts.
District | Trump | Biden | Representative |
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1st | 36.9% | 61.1% | Richard Neal |
2nd | 36% | 61.8% | Jim McGovern |
3rd | 34.6% | 63.4% | Lori Trahan |
4th | 33.7% | 64.5% | Joe Kennedy III |
Jake Auchincloss | |||
5th | 23.9% | 74.5% | Katherine Clark |
6th | 35.6% | 62.6% | Seth Moulton |
7th | 13.3% | 85.3% | Ayanna Pressley |
8th | 32.2% | 66.2% | Stephen Lynch |
9th | 40.3% | 57.9% | Bill Keating |
See also[]
- 2020 Massachusetts general election
- United States presidential elections in Massachusetts
- 2020 United States elections
- 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
- 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries
- 2020 Green Party presidential primaries
- 2020 United States elections
Notes[]
- ^ Excluding write-ins, which were not tallied, and blank ballots.
- ^ Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Key:
A – all adults
RV – registered voters
LV – likely voters
V – unclear - ^ "Some other candidate" with 5%; "Refused" with 3%; would not vote with no voters
- ^ "Other" with 3%; would not vote with 0%
- ^ "Another candidate" with 2%; "Refused" with 3%
- ^ "Some other candidate" with 7%; would not vote with 3%
- ^ Including voters who lean towards a given candidate
- ^ "Another candidate" with 7%
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Further reading[]
- Summary: State Laws on Presidential Electors (PDF), Washington DC: National Association of Secretaries of State, August 2020,
Massachusetts
- "A farmer made a giant Biden-Harris sign out of hay bales. It was set on fire the next day", Washingtonpost.com, October 12, 2020. (About incident in Dalton, Massachusetts)
External links[]
- Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Massachusetts", Voting & Elections Toolkits
- "Massachusetts: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA
- "League of Women Voters of Massachusetts". (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
- Massachusetts at Ballotpedia
- 2020 United States presidential election by state
- United States presidential elections in Massachusetts
- 2020 Massachusetts elections