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1876 presidential election in Massachusetts

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) beat Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) in Massachusetts in 1876, 58.0% to 42.0%, a margin of 16.0 points and 41,286 votes.

Massachusetts voted 19.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.0.

The Republican hold continued from 1872, when Ulysses S. Grant won.

Republicans led in 13 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Suffolk, cast 47,938 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.7 points. The closest was Dukes, where 250 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rutherford B. Hayes won Republican 150,063 58.0%
Samuel J. Tilden Democratic 108,777 42.0%
Total258,840

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Suffolk 25,101 52.4% 22,837 47.6% 47,938 D+4.7
Middlesex 19,561 41.7% 27,301 58.3% 46,862 R+16.5
Essex 14,895 40.7% 21,686 59.3% 36,581 R+18.6
Worcester 14,319 39.4% 22,051 60.6% 36,370 R+21.3
Bristol 5,814 33.4% 11,576 66.6% 17,390 R+33.1
Norfolk 6,685 42.7% 8,963 57.3% 15,648 R+14.6
Hampden 6,605 45.3% 7,963 54.7% 14,568 R+9.3
Plymouth 4,518 35.2% 8,310 64.8% 12,828 R+29.6
Berkshire 5,478 47.7% 6,015 52.3% 11,493 R+4.7
Hampshire 2,507 33.3% 5,018 66.7% 7,525 R+33.4
Franklin 2,257 35.7% 4,072 64.3% 6,329 R+28.7
Barnstable 785 18.3% 3,493 81.7% 4,278 R+63.3
Dukes 149 27.2% 399 72.8% 548 R+45.6
Nantucket 103 21.4% 379 78.6% 482 R+57.3

Counties as they stood in 1876; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Massachusetts in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+25.2
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+33.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+27.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.8
2004 John Kerry (D) D+25.2
2000 Al Gore (D) D+27.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+33.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.5
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+7.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+0.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+15.7
1972 George McGovern (D) D+9.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+30.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+52.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+20.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+11.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.0
1928 Al Smith (D) D+1.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+40.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+24.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+19.7
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.1
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.6
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+9.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+8.0
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+18.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+16.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+38.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+39.5