2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

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Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
← 2012 November 8, 2016 2020 →
Turnout 75.51% Increase
  Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 1,995,196 1,090,893
Percentage 60.01% 32.81%
Massachusetts Presidential Election Results 2016.svg
County Results
Clinton
  40-50%
  50–60%
  60–70%
  70–80%
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Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color
President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

 Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

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File:United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016.svg
Treemap of the popular vote by county.

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.

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

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Main article: 2016 Massachusetts Democratic primary
File:Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary Election Results by Town, 2016.png
Results of the Democratic primary by town.
  Hillary Clinton
  Bernie Sanders

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Results of the Massachusetts Democratic primary on March 1, 2016
Candidate Popular vote[1] Estimated delegates[2]
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 603,782 49.9% 46 17 63
Bernie Sanders 589,803 48.5% 45 1 46
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 4,783 0.4% 0 0 0
Rocky De La Fuente 1,545 0.1% 0 0 0
Others 4,927 0 0 0
Uncommitted 8,090 – 6 6
Blank votes 4,326 – – –
Total 1,220,296 100% 91 24 115

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
America Symbol.svg 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:

File:Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party Presidential Primary Results By Town.png
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

File:2016 MA President.png
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 area and the western part of the state swung to Trump.

Predictions

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

  1. Los Angeles Times: Strongly Clinton[8]
  2. CNN: Solid Clinton[9]
  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Clinton[10]
  4. NBC: Likely Clinton[11]
  5. RealClearPolitics: Solid Clinton[12]
  6. Fox News: Solid Democrat[13]
  7. ABC: Solid Clinton[14]

Polling

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See also: Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016 § Massachusetts

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
Barnstable County 52.52% 72,430 39.23% 54,099 6.81% 9,252 135,781
Berkshire County 65.73% 43,714 25.32% 16,839 7.72% 5,064 65,617
Bristol County 50.47% 129,540 41.08% 105,443 6.80% 17,157 252,140
Dukes County 70.88% 8,400 20.90% 2,477 6.83% 797 11,674
Essex County 56.60% 222,310 34.70% 136,316 6.94% 26,744 385,370
Franklin County 61.92% 24,478 26.22% 10,364 10.25% 3,979 38,821
Hampden County 53.78% 112,590 37.59% 78,685 7.19% 14,826 206,101
Hampshire County 64.66% 55,367 25.45% 21,790 8.36% 7,036 84,193
Middlesex County 64.35% 520,360 27.18% 219,793 7.10% 56,582 796,735
Nantucket County 62.98% 4,146 28.74% 1,892 7.22% 470 6,508
Norfolk County 59.22% 221,819 31.97% 119,723 7.11% 26,153 367,695
Plymouth County 49.19% 135,513 41.88% 115,369 7.48% 20,295 271,177
Suffolk County 77.47% 245,751 15.90% 50,421 5.46% 17,111 313,283
Worcester County 50.18% 198,778 39.81% 157,682 8.59% 33,491 389,951

See also

References

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