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1916 presidential election in Massachusetts

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) beat Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) in Massachusetts in 1916, 50.5% to 46.6%, a margin of 3.9 points and 20,899 votes.

Massachusetts voted 7.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

Massachusetts changed party: in 1912 it went Democratic, for Woodrow Wilson.

Republicans led in 12 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Middlesex, cast 113,072 votes and went to the Republican by 9.7 points. The closest was Nantucket, where 58 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Charles Evans Hughes won Republican 268,784 50.5%
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 247,885 46.6%
All other candidates 15,154 2.8%
Total531,823

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Middlesex 49,844 44.1% 60,802 53.8% 2,426 113,072 R+9.7
Suffolk 61,047 57.5% 42,492 40.0% 2,609 106,148 D+17.5
Essex 32,489 45.7% 35,909 50.5% 2,688 71,086 R+4.8
Worcester 27,540 44.6% 32,541 52.8% 1,599 61,680 R+8.1
Bristol 18,065 43.0% 22,578 53.7% 1,407 42,050 R+10.7
Hampden 17,028 46.9% 18,207 50.2% 1,042 36,277 R+3.2
Norfolk 12,702 38.7% 19,284 58.7% 858 32,844 R+20.0
Plymouth 11,009 42.8% 13,515 52.5% 1,228 25,752 R+9.7
Berkshire 8,357 44.5% 9,787 52.1% 645 18,789 R+7.6
Hampshire 4,202 41.1% 5,748 56.2% 286 10,236 R+15.1
Franklin 3,054 39.9% 4,353 56.9% 239 7,646 R+17.0
Barnstable 1,892 39.2% 2,836 58.7% 104 4,832 R+19.5
Dukes 309 39.3% 464 59.0% 14 787 R+19.7
Nantucket 307 54.4% 249 44.1% 8 564 D+10.3

Counties as they stood in 1916; 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