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The 1916 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1916.
Republican primary
Governor
Candidates
Samuel W. McCall, incumbent governor
Results
1916 Republican gubernatorial primaryElection Statistics 1916 95
Republican Party (United States)
Samuel W. McCall (incumbent)
115,242
100.00%
Write-in
All others
2
0.00%
115,244
100.00%
Lieutenant governor
Candidates
Calvin Coolidge, incumbent lieutenant governor
Results
Lieutenant Governor Coolidge was unopposed for the Republican nomination.
1916 Republican lieutenant gubernatorial primaryElection Statistics 1916 100
Republican Party (United States)
Calvin Coolidge (incumbent)
109,648
100.00%
Write-in
All others
2
0.00%
109,650
100.00%
Democratic primary
Governor
Candidates
Charles H. Cole, adjutant general of Massachusetts and former Boston Police and Fire commissioner
Frederick Mansfield, former treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts
Results
1916 Democratic gubernatorial primaryElection Statistics 1916 223
Democratic Party (United States)
Frederick Mansfield
45,415
56.03%
Democratic Party (United States)
Charles H. Cole
35,637
43.97%
Write-in
All others
0
0.00%
81,052
100.00%
Lieutenant governor
Candidates
Thomas P. Riley, former chairman of the State Democratic Committee and president of the Boston United Irish League of AmericaMurray Damien Irish Nationalists in Boston: Catholicism and Conflict, 1900–1928 2018 CUA Press 79 9780813230016 https://books.google.com/books?id=5p1WDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 27 September 2019
Results
Riley was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
1916 Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial primaryElection Statistics 1916 228
Democratic Party (United States)
Thomas P. Riley
66,178
100.00%
Write-in
All others
0
0.00%
66,181
100.00%
General election
Candidates
James Hayes, perennial candidate from Plymouth (Socialist Labor)
Chester R. Lawrence, perennial candidate from Boston (Prohibition)
Frederick Mansfield, former treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts (Democratic)
Samuel W. McCall, incumbent governor (Republican)
Dan A. White, candidate for governor in 1909 and 1910 (Socialist)
Results
1916 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266559 MA Governor, 1917 Our Campaigns 28 September 2019Election Statistics 1916 12
Republican Party (United States)
Samuel W. McCall (incumbent)
276,123
52.45%
5.48
Democratic Party (United States)
Frederick Mansfield
229,883
43.67%
2.04
Socialist Party of America
Dan A. White
10,582
2.01%
0.27
Prohibition Party (United States)
Chester Lawrence
5,983
1.14%
2.76
Socialist Labor Party of America
James Hayes
3,893
0.73%
0.44
Write-in
All others
2
0.00%
526,421
100.00%
See also
1916 Massachusetts legislature
References
Bibliography
Election Statistics, 1916 Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth 1916 Boston, MA https://archive.org/details/numberofassessed1916mass Election Statistics 1916
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