United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016
Massachusetts
November 8, 2016
 
Nominee TBA Donald Trump
(presumptive)
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York
Running mate TBA TBA

Incumbent President

Barack Obama
Democratic


The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Massachusetts voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.

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.

Primary Elections

Democratic primary

Results of the Democratic primary by county.
  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 603,782 49.9% 46 16 62
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Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 4,783 0.4% 0 0 0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 – 8 8
Blank votes 4,326 – – –
Total 1,220,296 100% 91 25 116

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.
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]

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

United Independent primary

Ballots will be available for voters enrolled in this party, but there are no candidates for office.

General Election

The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Massachusetts voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.

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.

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