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Main article: United States presidential election, 2016
United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016
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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 60.0% 32.8%
  Clinton – 70–80%
  Clinton – 60–70%
  Clinton – 50–60%
President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

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 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.

Long considered a deep blue state, Hillary Clinton easily continued the Democratic tradition in Massachusetts, carrying the state with 60.8% of the vote to Donald Trump's 33.5%. Massachusetts was one of two states where Hillary Clinton won every county, the other being Hawaii. It was also one of only three states in the nation where Hillary Clinton received more than 60% of the vote, along with California and Hawaii. Massachusetts was among the eleven states in which Hillary Clinton outperformed Barack Obama's margin in 2012.[1]


Primary elections

Democratic primary

Main article: Massachusetts Democratic primary, 2016
Results of the Democratic primary by county.
  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 606,822 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

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. Five candidates appeared on the ballot, the results are as follows:

County results of the Massachusetts Green presidential primaries, 2016.
  Jill Stein
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

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.

Polling

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

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016
Party Candidate Running Mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine 1,964,768 60.8% 11
Republican Donald J. Trump Mike Pence 1,083,069 33.5% 0
Libertarian Gary Johnson William Weld 136,784 4.2% 0
Green Jill Stein Ajamu Baraka 46,910 1.5% 0
Totals 3,231,531 100.00% 11

See also

References

  1. ^ http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2016&def=swg&datatype=national&f=0&off=0&elect=0
  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. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  5. ^ "Official results: Stein wins Massachusetts Green Rainbow Party presidential primary with 48.1%". Green Party Watch. 11 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.
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