MASSACHUSETTS 11 Electoral Votes 
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Massachusetts goes from 12 electoral votes to 11 as a result of reapportionment following the 2010 Census
Population 
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Secretary of the Commonwealth)
Total Resident Population, July 1, 2012 est.           6,646,144
Total Registration, Oct. 17, 2012                               4,342,841
Dem. 1,551,693 (35.73%)   Rep. 484,099 (11.15%)  Unenrolled 2,283,273 (52.58%)  Pol. Design. 17,269 (0.40%)  Green-Rainbow 6,507 (0.15%)
Massachusetts has: 43 cities and 308 towns; 14 counties.
Largest counties: Middlesex, Worcester, Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk. >
Largest cities: Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge, Lowell. >

Government
Governor: Deval Patrick (D) elected 2006, re-elected 2010.
State Legislature: The General Court of the Commonwealth of Mass.   House: 160 seats  Senate: 40 seats 
Local: Cities & Towns  NACO Counties
U.S. House: 10D - 1. J.Olver (D) | 2. R.Neal (D) | 3. J.McGovern (D) | 4. B.Frank (D) | 5. N.Tsongas (D) | 6. J.Tierney (D) | 7. E.Markey (D) | 8. M.Capuano (D) | 9. S.Lynch (D) | 10. B.Keating (D)
U.S. Senate: John Kerry (D) re-elected in 2008, Scott Brown (R) elected Jan. 19, 2010 special election; defeated in 2012. 
2012
U.S. Senate: In the highly contested U.S. Senate race race consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren (D) defeated Sen. Scott Brown (R) by 1,696,346 votes (53.74%) to 1,458,048 (46.19%) and 2,159 for all others.
U.S. House: Reps. John Olver (D), first elected in June 2001, and Rep. Barney Frank (D), first elected in 1980, retired.  Massachusetts lost one seat due to redistricting.  The closest race occurred in the 6th CD, where Rep. John Tierney (D) defeated Richard Tisei (R) by 180,942 votes to 176,612 and 16,739 for Daniel Fishman (L).   In the 4th CD, after competitive primaries in both parties, Joseph P. Kennedy III (D) defeated Sean Bielat (R).
State Legislature: Democrats maintained huge majorities in both chambers.  All 160 House seats and all 40 Senate seats were up. 
The House went from 127D, 33R to 131D, 29R and the Senate from 35D, 4R, 1v to 36D, 4R.
Ballot Measures: There were three ballot questions.  Voters approved Question 1 on motor vehicle repairs, narrowly defeated Question 2 , the death with dignity initiative by 51.1% to 48.9% and approved Question 3 on medical marijuana.

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The Bay State

General Election -- Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Voting Eligible Population*: 4,781,421.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 66.3%.



Voter Registration Deadline
: October 17, 2012.

Ballot access note:
A non-party candidate seeking to have his or her name placed on the ballot must obtain at least 10,000 certified signatures on nomination papers. These papers must include the names of the eleven elector candidates (who must be registered voters in Massachusetts) for each presidential candidate and vice-presidential running mate.
Official Results >

 
Johnson/Gray (Lib.)
30,920
(0.98)
+Obama/Biden (Dem.)
1,921,290
(60.65)
Romney/Ryan (Rep.)
1,188,314
(37.51)
Stein/Honkala (Grn.-Rainbow)
20,691
(0.65)
All others
6,552
(0.21)
Total........3,167,767


Including 16,429 blanks, 3,184,196 total votes were cast.
Overview: Former Gov. Mitt Romney lost his home state and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, also from Massachusetts, did not do well here either.  Obama gained a pluralitly of 732,976 votes (23.14 percentage points) keeping the Bay State solidly in the Democratic column.  Romney made periodic visits including for fundraising and stops at his national campaign headquarters; the Democratic principals also made fundraising visits (+).  The campaigns organized activists to help out in the neighboring battleground state of New Hampshire.
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Romney
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[State Primary: September 6, 2012]
Presidential Preference Primary -- Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Total Registration as of Feb. 15, 2012: 4,111,128.  Dem. 1,475,879 (35.90%)  Rep. 466,431 (11.35%)  Green-Rainbow 5,103 (0.12%)  Unenrolled 2,145,108 (52.18%).
Democrats

Official Results
+Barack Obama
127,909
86.50%
No Preference
16,075
10.87%
All Others
3,889
2.63%
Total (w/o blanks) 147,873

Blanks 9,690 

Green-Rainbow
Kent Mesplay 89  -  Jill Stein 1,018  -  Harley Mikkelson 84  -  No Preference 232  -  All Others 95   -  Blanks 36

Republicans
41 Delegates: 3 RNC; 11 at-large; 27 by CD (3 x 9 CDs).
1.79% of the 2,286 Delegates. 

Official Results >
Ron Paul
35,219
9.51%
+Mitt Romney
266,313
71.89%
Rick Perry
991
0.27%
Rick Santorum
44,564
12.03%
Jon Huntsman
2,268
0.61%
Michele Bachmann
865
0.23%
Newt Gingrich
16,991
4.59%
No Preference
1,793
0.48%
All Others
613
0.17%
Total (w/o blanks)
369,617

Blanks 818

Romney carried all nine congressional districts.



General Election -- Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Voting Eligible Population*: 4,652,749.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 66.2%.


Total Registration: 4,220,488.
Dem. 1,559,464 (36.95%)   Rep. 490,259 (11.62%)  Unenrolled 2,141,878 (50.75%)   Grn-Rbw 6,728   WF 5,534   More 16,625


Official Results >


Baldwin/Castle (Const.) 4,971
(0.16)
Barr/Root (Lib.)
13,189
(0.43)
McCain/Palin (Rep.)
1,108,854
(35.99)
McKinney/Clemente (Grn. Rainbow)
6,550
(0.21)
Nader/Gonzalez (Ind.)
28,841
(0.94)
+Obama/Biden (Dem.)
1,904,097
(61.80)
All others
14,483
(0.47)
Total........3,080,985



Including 22,010
blanks, 3,102,995 total votes were cast.
2008 Overview
The Obama-Biden ticket carried the Bay State with a plurality of 795,243 votes (25.81 percentage points).  Independent candidate Ralph Nader provided one of the highlights of the Massachusetts campaign with a marathon day of speeches on Oct. 25.  The only appearances by the major party principals were for fundraisers: John McCain in Boston on June 12, Barack Obama in Boston on Aug. 4, and Joe Biden in Boston and Holyoke on Sept. 10.
Obama/Allies  |  McCain/Allies Nader

General Election -- Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Voting Eligible Population: 4,533,859.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 64.2%.


Registration: Dem. 1,526,711 (37.25%)   Rep. 532,319 (12.99%)   Lib. 23,900 (0.58%)   GrnRnb. 9,509 (0.23%)   Other 2,000,062 (48.80%) ...   Total 4,098,634.
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.) 
15,022
(0.52)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
1,071,109
(36.78)
Cobb/LaMarche (Grn. Rainbow)
10,623
(0.36)
Kerry/Edewards (Dem.)
1,803,800
(61.94)
Nader/Camejo (Unenrolled)
4,806
(0.17)
All Others
7,028
(0.24)
Total........2,912,388

Including 15,067 blanks, 2,927,455 total votes were cast.

2004 Overview
Native son John Kerry carried Massachusetts with a solid plurality of 732,691 votes (25.16 percentage points).

General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Voting Eligible Population: 4,517,052.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 59.9%.


Registration: Dem. 1,460,881 (36.4%)   Rep. 546,333 (13.6%)   Lib. 16,071 (0.4%)   Unenrolled, Other 1,985,511(49.5%) ...  Total 4,008,796.
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)
 16,366
(0.61)
Buchanan/Higgins,Sr.(Ref.)
 11,149
(0.41)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
 878,502
(32.50)
+Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)
 1,616,487
(59.80)
Hagelin/Tompkins (Unenr.)
2,884
(0.11)
Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)
173,564
(6.42)
McReynolds/Hollis (w/in)
42
 - 
All others
3,990
 (0.15)
Total........2,702,984

Including 31,022 blanks, 2,734,006 total votes were cast.

2000 Overview
Solidly Democratic Massachusetts went solidly for Gore as he won the state's 12 electoral votes with a plurality of 737,985 votes (27.30 percentage points).  Gore carried all counties.  Ralph Nader's 6.42% was his third best showing of any state.  Massachusetts came to the fore on Oct. 3 when the first presidential debate was held at UMass in Boston; both sides mobilized their supporters, and Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan and Harry Browne were also on hand in the city.  Gore and Lieberman had also visited the state earlier, holding a rally and a fundraising gala in Boston on Sept. 13.

1992 and 1996 General Elections
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Clinton (Dem.).....1,318,639
(47.54)
Bush (Rep.)............805,039
(29.02)
Perot.....................630,731 
(22.74)
Others (5+w/ins)......19,255
(0.69)
Total........2,773,664

1996
Clinton (Dem.).....1,571,763
(61.47)
Dole (Rep.)............718,107
(28.08)
Perot (Ref.)............227,217 
(8.89)
Others (3+w/ins)......39,699
(1.55)
Total........2,556,786