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1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Massachusetts presidential No 1882 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1882 1884 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1884 1883 11 6 File:GovGeorgeDRobinson.jpg 150x150px George D. Robinson Republican Party (United States) 160,092 51.25% File:BenFrankButler.jpg Benjamin Franklin Butler Democratic Party (United States) GreenbackInd. Republican 150,228 48.10% 300px County results 300px Municipality results Robinson: #FFB2B2 40–50% #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #D72F30 70–80% #C21B18 80–90% #A80000 >90%Butler: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% Governor Benjamin Franklin Butler Democratic Party (United States) George D. Robinson Republican Party (United States)
The 1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6.
Governor Benjamin Butler ran for re-election on a fusion ticket between the Democratic Party and the Greenback Labor Party, but was defeated by Republican U.S. Representative George D. Robinson.Richardson Darcy G. 2004 Others: Third Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party. Vol I. https://books.google.com/books?id=DBTF6X7WYb0C&q=%22benjamin+butler%22+%22fusion%22+1882&pg=PA547 Lincoln, NE iUniverse, Inc. 547 0-595-31723-5 Gillespie J. David 2012 Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=wjUMCAAAQBAJ&q=%22benjamin+butler%22+%22fusion%22+1882&pg=PT135 Columbia, SC University of South Carolina Press 978-1-61117-013-9 http://movies2.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0830.html On This Day: August 30, 1884 Kennedy Robert C. New York Times April 2, 2019
In the concurrent but separate election for lieutenant governor, Republican Oliver Ames was re-elected to a second term.
Republican nomination
Candidates
George D. Robinson, U.S. representative from Chicopee
Declined
Henry L. Pierce, former mayor of Boston
Results
1883 Republican state conventionBUTLER'S OPPONENT NAMED: GEORGE D. ROBINSON FOR GOVERNOR The New York Tribune 20 Sep 1883 1
George D. Robinson Republican Party (US) 996 87.52%
Charles Francis Adams Jr. Republican Party (US) 117 10.28%
George A. Bruce Republican Party (US) 35 3.08%
Thomas Talbot Republican Party (US) 6 0.53%
Henry Cabot Lodge Republican Party (US) 5 0.44%
Charles R. Codman Sr. Republican Party (US) 3 0.26%
Benjamin W. Harris Republican Party (US) 2 0.18%
Rufus S. Frost Republican Party (US) 1 0.09%
Alexander H. Rice Republican Party (US) 1 0.09%
Alanson W. Beard Republican Party (US) 1 0.09%
Henry B. Pierce Republican Party (US) 1 0.09%
1,138 100.00%
General election
Results
1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionMA Governor, 1883 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=185068 OurCampaigns January 3, 2020 1884 Manual for the Use of the General Court, 1884 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1884mass/page/270 Boston, MA Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers
Republican Party (United States)
George D. Robinson
160,092
51.25%
Democratic Party (United States)
Benjamin Franklin Butler (inc.)
150,228
48.10%
Prohibition Party
Charles Almy
1,881
0.60%
Others
Others
156
0.05%
Republican Party (United States)
Democratic Party (United States)
Massachusetts lt. gubernatorial election, 1883
Republican Party (United States)
Oliver Ames (inc.)
161,399
51.69%
Democratic Party (United States)
James S. Greenfield1883 Ward 11. Regular Democratic Ticket https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll29/id/12/ Kiley, Printer. 7 Spring Lane Boston, Massachusetts January 3, 2020
147,661
47.29%
Prohibition Party
John Blackmerhttp://www.prohibitionists.org/history/votes/MA_can.htm#1883 Past Prohibition Party Candidates...MA Vote Records
1,911
0.61%
Greenback Party
Nathaniel S. Cushing1884 The Evening Journal Almanac, 1884 https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1884slsn/page/54 Alexander McBride 54 1,091
0.35%
Others
Others
154
0.05%
Republican Party (United States)
See also
1883 Massachusetts legislature
References
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