The 2016 United States presidential election in Massachusetts was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Massachusetts voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College.

In the general election, Clinton won Massachusetts with 60.01% of the vote, while Trump received 32.81%. This marked the fourth consecutive election in which the Democratic candidate won over 60% of the vote, and the seventh in a row in which they won in every single county in the state, thus making Massachusetts and Hawaii the only states in which Clinton won every single county. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has maintained extremely large Democratic margins since 1996. It also marked the fourth consecutive election in which both the Democratic and Republican vote shares in Massachusetts fell; since 2004, the combined vote shares of the two major parties in the Commonwealth have gradually declined from 98.72% to 94.32%.

Clinton improved on Obama's 2012 performance by around 4%, due to a large swing to the Democrat in the metropolitan Boston area, making the state one of 11 (along with the District of Columbia) that shifted towards the Democrats. Meanwhile, the New Bedford and Fall River areas and the western part of Massachusetts, particularly eastern Berkshire County, swung to Trump.

Trump became the first Republican since 1912 to lose the once reliably Republican town of Boxford, which has voted against him all three of his runs for presidency. That being said, Clinton became the first Democrat to win Boxford in a presidential election since its creation.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Republican primary

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 Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates Jill Stein 768 45.7% 5Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry 78 4.7% 1Darryl Cherney 54 3.2% 0Kent Mesplay 37 2.2% 0William Kreml 24 1.4% 0Others 436 25.9%4No Preference 199 11.8%Blank votes 85 5.0% Total1,681100.00%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. The number of voters that took part in the election slightly increased from the 1,554 that took part in the 2012 primary.

United Independent primary Ballots were available for voters enrolled in this party, but there were no candidates for office.

General election Predictions The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Massachusetts as of Election Day. SourceRankingAs ofLos Angeles Times November 6, 2016CNNNovember 4, 2016Cook Political ReportNovember 7, 2016Electoral-vote.comNovember 8, 2016 Rothenberg Political Report November 7, 2016Sabato's Crystal BallNovember 7, 2016RealClearPoliticsNovember 8, 2016Fox NewsNovember 7, 2016

Polling

Hillary Clinton won every single pre-election poll by upper double digits. The final poll showed Clinton with 56% to Trump's 26%, and the average of the final 3 polls showed Hillary Clinton leading Trump 56% to 27%.

Results

By county County Hillary ClintonDemocratic Donald TrumpRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Barnstable 72,430 53.34% 54,099 39.84% 9,252 6.82% 18,331 13.50% 135,781 Berkshire 43,714 66.62% 16,839 25.66% 5,064 7.72% 26,875 40.96% 65,617 Bristol 129,540 51.38% 105,443 41.82% 17,157 6.80% 24,097 9.56% 252,140 Dukes 8,400 71.95% 2,477 21.22% 797 6.83% 5,923 50.73% 11,674 Essex 222,310 57.69% 136,316 35.37% 26,744 6.94% 85,994 22.32% 385,370 Franklin 24,478 63.05% 10,364 26.70% 3,979 10.25% 14,114 36.35% 38,821 Hampden 112,590 54.63% 78,685 38.18% 14,826 7.19% 33,905 16.45% 206,101 Hampshire 55,367 65.76% 21,790 25.88% 7,036 8.36% 33,577 39.88% 84,193 Middlesex 520,360 65.31% 219,793 27.59% 56,582 7.10% 300,567 37.72% 796,735 Nantucket 4,146 63.71% 1,892 29.07% 470 7.22% 2,254 34.64% 6,508 Norfolk 221,819 60.33% 119,723 32.56% 26,153 7.11% 102,096 27.77% 367,695 Plymouth 135,513 49.97% 115,369 42.54% 20,295 7.49% 20,144 7.43% 271,177 Suffolk 245,751 78.44% 50,421 16.09% 17,111 5.47% 195,330 62.35% 313,283 Worcester 198,778 50.98% 157,682 40.44% 33,491 8.58% 41,096 10.54% 389,951Totals1,995,19660.01%1,090,89332.81%238,9577.18%904,30327.20%3,325,046

By municipality

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