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State record · MA

Massachusetts

11 electoral votes in 202414 counties on record

The Margin, Cycle by Cycle

Two-party margin from county-summed returns · split EV counts annotated from 1976
D+20R+20D+40R+40D+60R+601868: R+39.5 two-party · 195,508 votes18681872: R+38.5 two-party · 192,650 votes1876: R+16.0 two-party · 258,840 votes1880: R+19.2 two-party · 282,505 votes1884: R+9.1 two-party · 303,383 votes1888: R+9.6 two-party · 344,243 votes18881892: R+6.8 two-party · 391,028 votes1896: R+51.1 two-party · 401,329 votes1900: R+20.7 two-party · 414,804 votes1904: R+21.7 two-party · 445,100 votes1908: R+26.2 two-party · 456,905 votes19081912: D+5.3 two-party · 488,056 votes1916: R+4.0 two-party · 531,763 votes1920: R+42.2 two-party · 993,716 votes1924: R+42.9 two-party · 1,129,822 votes1928: D+1.1 two-party · 1,577,823 votes19281932: D+4.1 two-party · 1,580,114 votes1936: D+10.2 two-party · 1,840,357 votes1940: D+6.8 two-party · 2,026,993 votes1944: D+5.8 two-party · 1,960,665 votes1948: D+11.8 two-party · 2,107,147 votes19481952: R+8.8 two-party · 2,383,398 votes1956: R+19.0 two-party · 2,348,506 votes1960: D+20.7 two-party · 2,469,480 votes1964: D+52.9 two-party · 2,344,798 votes1968: D+31.4 two-party · 2,331,752 votes19681972: D+9.0 two-party · 2,458,756 votes1976: D+16.2 two-party · 2,547,558 votes · 14 EV1980: R+0.2 two-party · 2,524,090 votes · 14 EV1984: R+2.8 two-party · 2,559,383 votes · 13 EV1988: D+8.0 two-party · 2,632,801 votes · 13 EV19881992: D+24.2 two-party · 2,773,664 votes · 12 EV1996: D+37.3 two-party · 2,556,459 votes · 12 EV2000: D+29.6 two-party · 2,733,964 votes · 12 EV2004: D+25.5 two-party · 2,927,455 votes · 12 EV2008: D+26.4 two-party · 3,102,995 votes · 12 EV20082012: D+23.6 two-party · 3,184,196 votes · 11 EV2016: D+29.3 two-party · 3,378,821 votes · 11 EV2020: D+34.2 two-party · 3,658,005 votes · 11 EV2024: D+25.9 two-party · 3,512,930 votes · 11 EV2024

Bars clip at ±70 two-party points. Click a bar to open that election. Per-state electoral-vote detail is staged from 1976; the dot rows mark cycles with no returns (e.g. unreconstructed Southern states, 1868–72).

Every County, the Long Way

Two-party Democratic share, 1868–2024 · dashed line = 50%