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Massachusetts presidential election results 2016

Hillary Clinton carried Massachusetts by 27.20 points (904,303 votes), winning 11 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
11
Votes counted
3,325,046
MA result
D+27.2
Compared with the nation
25.2 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2012
4.1 pts to D

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Hillary ClintonDemocratic1,995,19660.00%11
Donald J. TrumpRepublican1,090,89332.80%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian138,0184.20%—
Total votes3,325,046

Sources: ma.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Department, Council Chambers, November 30, 2016: votes for Electors of President and Vice President as examined by the Acting Governor and Council (statewide)
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 8 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
Clinton and Kaine (Democratic)Democratic1,995,19660.93%
Trump and Pence (Republican)Republican1,090,89333.31%
Johnson and Weld (Libertarian)Libertarian138,0184.21%
Stein and Baraka (Green-Rainbow)Green-Rainbow47,6611.46%
McMullin and Johnson (Write-in)Write-in2,7190.08%
Feegbeh and O’Brien (Write-in)Write-in280.00%
Kotlikoff and Leamer (Write-in)Write-in280.00%
Moorehead and Lilly (Write-in)Write-in150.00%
Write-in / scattering50,488
Blank ballots53,755
Total as printed3,378,801
Notes on how this document was read
  • Leader dots are kept out of the label; 'All others' is write_in, 'Blanks' blank_votes; the dash printed for Schoenke and Mitchell is null.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Franklin County: Hillary Clinton +37.0Dukes County: Hillary Clinton +51.5Hampden County: Hillary Clinton +16.7Hampshire County: Hillary Clinton +40.5Middlesex County: Hillary Clinton +38.3Norfolk County: Hillary Clinton +28.2Plymouth County: Hillary Clinton +7.5Barnstable County: Hillary Clinton +13.7Berkshire County: Hillary Clinton +41.5Worcester County: Hillary Clinton +10.7Suffolk County: Hillary Clinton +63.3Bristol County: Hillary Clinton +9.7Essex County: Hillary Clinton +22.6Nantucket County: Hillary Clinton +35.2
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Hillary ClintonDonald J. TrumpOthers TotalMargin
Barnstable 72,43054,0997,333 133,862 13.7
Berkshire 43,71416,8394,250 64,803 41.5
Bristol 129,540105,44313,976 248,959 9.7
Dukes 8,4002,477625 11,502 51.5
Essex 222,310136,31621,242 379,868 22.6
Franklin 24,47810,3643,335 38,177 37.0
Hampden 112,59078,68511,842 203,117 16.7
Hampshire 55,36721,7905,799 82,956 40.5
Middlesex 520,360219,79343,881 784,034 38.3
Nantucket 4,1461,892368 6,406 35.2
Norfolk 221,819119,72320,020 361,562 28.2
Plymouth 135,513115,36915,981 266,863 7.5
Suffolk 245,75150,42112,569 308,741 63.3
Worcester 198,778157,68227,245 383,705 10.7

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read
  • Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Massachusetts in 2016?

Hillary Clinton won Massachusetts by 27.20 percentage points (904,303 votes).

How many electoral votes did Massachusetts have in 2016?

Massachusetts cast 11 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Massachusetts in 2016?

3,325,046 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Massachusetts in 2016?

Hillary Clinton 14 (out of 14 counties with results).

How did Massachusetts change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 4.1 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 23.1 points to Democratic by 27.2 points.

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