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Massachusetts 2016 vs 2020: county swing

1 of 14 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 0 changed hands.

Franklin County: swing D+7.3Dukes County: swing D+5.4Hampden County: swing D+1.0Hampshire County: swing D+6.3Middlesex County: swing D+6.8Norfolk County: swing D+8.0Plymouth County: swing D+9.7Barnstable County: swing D+10.7Berkshire County: swing D+5.6Worcester County: swing D+7.2Suffolk County: swing R+0.2Bristol County: swing D+2.4Essex County: swing D+6.4Nantucket County: swing D+10.3
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20162020SwingVotes 2016Votes 2020
Suffolk County D+63.3 D+63.1 R+0.2 308,741 335,462
Hampden County D+16.7 D+17.7 D+1.0 203,117 218,177
Bristol County D+9.6 D+12.0 D+2.4 248,959 279,279
Dukes County D+51.5 D+56.9 D+5.4 11,502 12,798
Berkshire County D+41.5 D+47.1 D+5.6 64,803 71,375
Hampshire County D+40.4 D+46.7 D+6.3 82,956 87,854
Essex County D+22.6 D+29.0 D+6.4 379,868 421,210
Middlesex County D+38.4 D+45.2 D+6.8 784,034 863,577
Worcester County D+10.7 D+17.9 D+7.2 383,705 432,014
Franklin County D+37.0 D+44.3 D+7.3 38,177 42,458
Norfolk County D+28.3 D+36.3 D+8.0 361,562 407,751
Plymouth County D+7.6 D+17.3 D+9.7 266,863 301,816
Nantucket County D+35.2 D+45.5 D+10.3 6,406 7,306
Barnstable County D+13.7 D+24.4 D+10.7 133,862 150,325

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data