United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2016
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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.
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Primary Elections
Democratic primary
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| Candidate | Popular vote[1] | Estimated delegates[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Hillary Clinton | 603,782 | 49.9% | 46 | 17 | 63 |
| 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| Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 4,783 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |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 | – | 6 | 6 | |
| Blank votes | 4,326 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 1,220,296 | 100% | 91 | 24 | 115 |
Republican primary
| 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| Jeb Bush (withdrawn) | 6,559 | 1.03% | 0 | 0 | 0 |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| Chris Christie (withdrawn) | 1,906 | 0.30% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rand Paul (withdrawn) | 1,864 | 0.29% | 0 | 0 | 0 |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| Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) | 1,153 | 0.18% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) | 753 | 0.12% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) | 709 | 0.11% | 0 | 0 | 0 |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 | |||||
Green-Rainbow Primary
The Massachusetts primary took place on March 1. Five candidates appeared on the ballot, the results are as follows:
| 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]
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.
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See also
- Democratic Party presidential debates, 2016
- Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Green Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Republican Party presidential debates, 2016
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
References
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- RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
- Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions
- 2016 Presidential primaries, ElectionProjection.com
- Decision Desk Headquarter Results for Massachusetts
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