2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States president 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.

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
November 8, 2016
Turnout75.51%
 
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Florida
Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 1,995,196 1,090,893
Percentage 60.01% 32.81%
County Results
Clinton
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%
  70–80%

Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color
President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

 Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

Elections in Massachusetts
Treemap of the popular vote by county.

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 60.01% of the vote, while Trump received 32.81% of the vote. 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 kept up its intense level of the sizable Democratic margins since 1996. It also marked the fourth consecutive election in which both the Democratic and Republican voteshares in Massachusetts fell; since 2004, the combined voteshares of the two major parties in the Commonwealth has gradually declined from 98.72% to 92.83%.

Primary elections

Democratic primary
Results of the Democratic primary by town.
  Hillary Clinton
  Bernie Sanders
Results of the Massachusetts Democratic primary on March 1, 2016
Candidate Popular vote[1] Estimated delegates[2]
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 606,82249.73% 462167
Bernie Sanders 589,80348.33% 45146
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 4,7830.39% 000
Rocky De La Fuente 1,5450.13% 000
No preference 8,0900.66% –22
All others 4,9270.40% 000
Blank votes 4,3260.35% –––
Total 1,220,296100% 9124115

Republican primary
Town results of the Massachusetts Republican presidential primaries, 2016.
  Donald Trump
  John Kasich
  Marco Rubio
  Tie
Massachusetts Republican primary, March 1, 2016
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:

Town results of the Massachusetts Green presidential primaries, 2016.
  Jill Stein
  Sedinam Curry
  Darryl Cherney
  Kent Mesplay
  William Kreml
  No Votes
Massachusetts Green Party presidential primary, March 1, 2016[3][4]
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
Results by municipality.

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. 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.[8]

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Massachusetts as of Election Day.

  1. Los Angeles Times: Strongly Clinton[9]
  2. CNN: Solid Clinton[10]
  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Clinton[11]
  4. NBC: Likely Clinton[12]
  5. RealClearPolitics: Solid Clinton[13]
  6. Fox News: Solid Democrat[14]
  7. ABC: Solid Clinton[15]

Polling

Results

Official state results from the Massachusetts Secretary of State are as follows

2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
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
Barnstable52.52%72,43039.23%54,0996.81%9,252135,781
Berkshire65.73%43,71425.32%16,8397.72%5,06465,617
Bristol50.47%129,54041.08%105,4436.80%17,157252,140
Dukes70.88%8,40020.90%2,4776.83%79711,674
Essex56.60%222,31034.70%136,3166.94%26,744385,370
Franklin61.92%24,47826.22%10,36410.25%3,97938,821
Hampden53.78%112,59037.59%78,6857.19%14,826206,101
Hampshire64.66%55,36725.45%21,7908.36%7,03684,193
Middlesex64.35%520,36027.18%219,7937.10%56,582796,735
Nantucket62.98%4,14628.74%1,8927.22%4706,508
Norfolk59.22%221,81931.97%119,7237.11%26,153367,695
Plymouth49.19%135,51341.88%115,3697.48%20,295271,177
Suffolk77.47%245,75115.90%50,4215.46%17,111313,283
Worcester50.18%198,77839.81%157,6828.59%33,491389,951

See also

References
  1. "2016 President Democratic Primary". Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. The Green Papers
  3. "2016 President Green-rainbow Primary". Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Government of Massachusetts. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  4. "Official results: Stein wins Massachusetts Green Rainbow Party presidential primary with 48.1%". Green Party Watch. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  5. "Massachusetts Green Party Presidential Primary Will List Five Candidates". Independent Political Report. 2016-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  6. "2016 Green-Rainbow Party Presidential Primary". MA Green-Rainbow Party. 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  7. "Massachusetts Secretary of State Releases Green Party Presidential Primary Results". Ballot Access News. 2015-04-07. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  8. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/2/1616360/-What-on-Earth-Happened-in-2016-Part-4-Massachusetts-Presidential-Election-Marijuana-Referendum
  9. "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.
  10. "Road to 270: CNN's general election map - CNNPolitics.com". Cnn.com. 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  11. "Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball » 2016 President". Centerforpolitics.org. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  12. Todd, Chuck. "NBC's Final Battleground Map Shows Clinton With a Significant Lead". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  13. "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  14. "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  15. "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.
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