United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016
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County Results
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General 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 the Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Green parties' respective nominees for president, as well as for state committee man, state committee woman, and city/town committee members for each party. Ballots also were available for members of the United Independent Party, but there were no candidates on the ballot. Registered members of each party only could vote in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated could have chosen any one primary to vote in.
In the general election, Clinton won Massachusetts with 60% of the vote, and was assigned all 11 of the state's electoral votes. 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 Trump failed to carry a single county.
Primary elections
Democratic primary
Candidate | Popular vote[1] | Estimated delegates[2] | |||
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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Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 4,783 | 0.39% | 0 | 0 | 0 |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
Massachusetts Republican primary, March 1, 2016 | |||||
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
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. Five candidates appeared on the ballot, the results are as follows:
Massachusetts Green Party presidential primary, March 1, 2016[3][4] | |||
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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.[5][6] The number of voters that took part in the election slightly increased from the 1,554 that took part in the 2012 primary.[7]
United Independent primary
Ballots were available for voters enrolled in this party, but there were no candidates for office.
General election
The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 general 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.
Predictions
The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Massachusetts as of Election Day.
- Los Angeles Times: Strongly Clinton[8]
- CNN: Solid Clinton[9]
- Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Clinton[10]
- NBC: Likely Clinton[11]
- RealClearPolitics: Solid Clinton[12]
- Fox News: Solid Democrat[13]
- ABC: Solid Clinton[14]
Polling
Results
Official state results from the Massachusetts Secretary of State are as follows
United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running Mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | 1,995,196 | 60.0% | 11 | |
Republican | Donald Trump | Mike Pence | 1,090,893 | 32.8% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | William Weld | 138,018 | 4.2% | 0 | |
Green | Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | 47,661 | 1.4% | 0 | |
Totals | 3,269,783 | 100.00% | 11 |
By county
County | Clinton% | Clinton# | Trump% | Trump# | Others% | Others# | Total |
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Barnstable County | 52.52% | 72,430 | 39.23% | 54,099 | 8.25% | 11,383 | 137,912 |
Berkshire County | 65.73% | 43,714 | 25.32% | 16,839 | 8.95% | 5,955 | 66,508 |
Bristol County | 50.47% | 129,540 | 41.08% | 105,443 | 8.46% | 21,703 | 256,686 |
Dukes County | 70.88% | 8,400 | 20.90% | 2,477 | 8.22% | 974 | 11,851 |
Essex County | 56.60% | 222,310 | 34.70% | 136,316 | 8.70% | 34,163 | 392,789 |
Franklin County | 61.92% | 24,478 | 26.22% | 10,364 | 11.86% | 4,689 | 39,531 |
Hampden County | 53.78% | 112,590 | 37.59% | 78,685 | 8.63% | 18,061 | 209,336 |
Hampshire County | 64.66% | 55,367 | 25.45% | 21,790 | 9.89% | 8,467 | 85,624 |
Middlesex County | 64.35% | 520,360 | 27.18% | 219,793 | 8.47% | 68,477 | 808,630 |
Nantucket County | 62.98% | 4,146 | 28.74% | 1,892 | 8.28% | 545 | 6,583 |
Norfolk County | 59.22% | 221,819 | 31.97% | 119,723 | 8.81% | 33,000 | 374,542 |
Plymouth County | 49.19% | 135,513 | 41.88% | 115,369 | 8.94% | 24,624 | 275,506 |
Suffolk County | 77.47% | 245,751 | 15.90% | 50,421 | 6.63% | 21,035 | 317,207 |
Worcester County | 50.18% | 198,778 | 39.81% | 157,682 | 10.01% | 39,636 | 396,096 |
See also
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Road to 270: CNN's general election map - CNNPolitics.com". Cnn.com. 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ↑ "Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball » 2016 President". Centerforpolitics.org. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ↑ Todd, Chuck. "NBC's Final Battleground Map Shows Clinton With a Significant Lead". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "The Final 15: The Latest Polls in the Swing States That Will Decide the Election". Abcnews.go.com. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.