Democratic presidential vote share

60.5%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Governor

Maura Healey (D)

National Governors Association

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

58.1%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

U.S. House seats apportioned to Massachusetts

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

Total votes cast for president

3,512,930

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Unaffiliated voters

≈ 60%

Largest bloc

Election Results

Recent presidential votes.

Democratic presidential vote share

60.5%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican presidential vote share

35.6%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

2024 presidential winner

Democratic

Margin

+25.0 points

Last Republican win

1984

Democratic presidential vote share

1976–2024

60.5%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Republican presidential vote share

1976–2024

35.6%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Governors

State executive.

Governor

Maura Healey (D)

National Governors Association

In office since

2023

National Governors Association

Governors listed

1793–present · National Governors Association

Legislature

Democratic supermajority

Governors of Massachusetts

Governor	Party	In office
Maura Healey	Democratic	2023–present
Deval Patrick	Democratic	2007–2015
Mitt Romney	Republican	2003–2007
Jane Maria Swift	Republican	2001–2003
Argeo Paul Cellucci	Republican	1997–2001
William Floyd Weld	Republican	1991–1997
Edward J. King	Democratic	1979–1983
Francis Williams Sargent	Republican	1969–1975
Endicott Peabody	Democratic	1963–1965
Foster John Furcolo	Democratic	1957–1961
Christian Archibald Herter	Republican	1953–1957
Paul Andrew Dever	Democratic	1949–1953
Robert Fiske Bradford	Republican	1947–1949
Maurice Tobin	Democratic	1945–1947
Leverett Saltonstall	Republican	1939–1945
Charles Francis Hurley	Democratic	1937–1939
James Michael Curley	Democratic	1935–1937
Joseph Buell Ely	Democratic	1931–1935
Frank G. Allen	Republican	1929–1931
Alvan Tufts Fuller	Republican	1925–1929
Channing Harris Cox	Republican	1921–1925
John Calvin Coolidge	Republican	1919–1921
Samuel Walker McCall	Republican	1916–1919
David Ignatius Walsh	Democratic	1914–1916
Eugene Noble Foss	Democratic	1911–1914
Ebenezer Sumner Draper	Republican	1909–1911
Curtis Guild	Republican	1906–1909
William Lewis Douglas	Democratic	1905–1906
John Lewis Bates	Republican	1903–1905
Winthrop Murray Crane	Republican	1900–1903
Roger Wolcott	Republican	1896–1900
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge	Republican	1894–1896
William Eustis Russell	Democratic	1891–1894
John Quincy Adams Brackett	Republican	1890–1891
Oliver Ames	Republican	1887–1890
George Dexter Robinson	Republican	1884–1887
John Davis Long	Republican	1880–1883
Alexander Hamilton Rice	Republican	1876–1879
William Gaston	Democratic	1875–1876
William Barrett Washburn	Republican	1872–1874
William Claflin	Republican	1869–1872
Nathaniel Prentice Banks	Republican	1858–1861
Emory Washburn	Whig	1854–1855
John Henry Clifford	Whig	1853–1854
George Sewall Boutwell	Republican	1851–1853
Edward Everett	Whig	1836–1840
Samuel Turell Armstrong	Whig	1835–1836
Levi Lincoln Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1825–1834
William Eustis	Republican	1823–1825
John Brooks	Federalist	1816–1823
Elbridge Gerry	Democratic-Republican	1810–1812
Christopher Gore	Federalist	1809–1810
Levi Lincoln Sr.	Democratic-Republican	1808–1809
James Sullivan	Democratic-Republican	1807–1808
Increase Sumner	Federalist	1797–1799
Samuel Adams	Democratic-Republican	1793–1797

Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.

Senators

U.S. Senate delegation.

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

58.1%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

38.9%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Senior senator

Elizabeth Warren (D)

Junior senator

Ed Markey (D)

Both seats

Democratic

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024

58.1%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024

38.9%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Representatives

U.S. House delegation.

U.S. House seats apportioned to Massachusetts

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. House seats

Party split

9 Democrats

Electoral votes

U.S. House seats apportioned to Massachusetts

1910–2020

9▼ 44%

U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.

Voting Trends

Turnout and participation.

Total votes cast for president

3,512,930

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Voter turnout

66%

2024

Trend

Solidly Democratic since 1988

Total votes cast for president

1976–2024

3,512,930▲ 38%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	Massachusetts	U.S.
Voter turnout (%)	66	63.9

Party Distribution

Partisan balance.

Unaffiliated voters

≈ 60%

Largest bloc

Democrats

≈ 31%

Republicans

≈ 9%

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