2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

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]

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
November 8, 2016
Turnout72.1%
 
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%
County Results
Clinton
  40-50%
  50–60%
  60-70%
  70-80%

Municipal results
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
General
Federal government
U.S. President
U.S. Senate
U.S. House
State government
Governor
State Senate
State House
Governor's Council
  • 2006
  • 2010
  • 2014
  • 2018
  • 2022
Ballot measures
Boston
Mayor
City council
Springfield
Mayor
Worcester
Mayor
Treemap of the popular vote by county.

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
Main article: 2016 Massachusetts Democratic presidential 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[2] Estimated delegates[3]
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
Main article: 2016 Massachusetts Republican presidential 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[4][5]
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
Results by municipality.

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

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
2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[19][20][21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic
1,995,196 60.01
Republican
1,090,893 32.81
Libertarian
138,018 4.15
Green-Rainbow
47,661 1.43
Independent
2,719 0.08
Independent
28 0.00
Independent
28 0.00
Workers World[22]
15 0.00
Independent
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
Barnstable53.34%72,43039.84%54,0996.81%9,252135,781
Berkshire66.62%43,71425.66%16,8397.72%5,06465,617
Bristol51.38%129,54041.82%105,4436.80%17,157252,140
Dukes71.95%8,40021.22%2,4776.83%79711,674
Essex57.69%222,31035.37%136,3166.94%26,744385,370
Franklin63.05%24,47826.70%10,36410.25%3,97938,821
Hampden54.63%112,59038.18%78,6857.19%14,826206,101
Hampshire65.76%55,36725.88%21,7908.36%7,03684,193
Middlesex65.31%520,36027.59%219,7937.10%56,582796,735
Nantucket63.71%4,14629.07%1,8927.22%4706,508
Norfolk60.33%221,81932.56%119,7237.11%26,153367,695
Plymouth49.97%135,51342.54%115,3697.48%20,295271,177
Suffolk78.44%245,75116.09%50,4215.46%17,111313,283
Worcester50.98%198,77840.44%157,6828.59%33,491389,951

See also

References
  1. "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration. 19 September 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  2. "2016 President Democratic Primary". Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. The Green Papers
  4. "2016 President Green-rainbow Primary". Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Government of Massachusetts. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  5. "Official results: Stein wins Massachusetts Green Rainbow Party presidential primary with 48.1%". Green Party Watch. 11 March 2016. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  6. "Massachusetts Green Party Presidential Primary Will List Five Candidates". Independent Political Report. 2016-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  7. "2016 Green-Rainbow Party Presidential Primary". MA Green-Rainbow Party. 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  8. "Massachusetts Secretary of State Releases Green Party Presidential Primary Results". Ballot Access News. 2015-04-07. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  9. "What on Earth Happened in 2016, Part 4 – Massachusetts Presidential Election + Marijuana Referendum".
  10. "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.
  11. Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  12. "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  13. "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  14. "Presidential Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  15. Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  16. "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  17. "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  18. "RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - Massachusetts: Trump vs. Clinton".
  19. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. "2016 President General Election". Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  20. Federal Election Commission (December 2017). "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). p. 33. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  21. "Post-Election Audit Form – Franklin Precinct 3" (PDF). Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  22. "16 presidential candidates you didn't know are running in 2016 – Blog: 16 for 16". PBS. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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