1812 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1812 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Massachusetts Presidential no 1811 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1811 1813 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 1813 April 6, 1812 x150px Caleb Strong Federalist Party 52,696 50.60% x150px Elbridge Gerry Democratic-Republican Party 51,326 49.28% 1812 Massachusetts gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsStrong: #DFC27D 50–60% #BF812D 60–70% Gerry: #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70% Governor Elbridge Gerry Democratic-Republican Party Caleb Strong Federalist Party The 1812 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 6, 1812. Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor Elbridge Gerry was defeated by Federalist nominee Caleb Strong. General election Candidates Elbridge Gerry, incumbent governor (Democratic-Republican) Caleb Strong, former governor (Federalist) Results 1812 Massachusetts gubernatorial electionGubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 57 1-56802-396-0 Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County McFarland 2003 xxv 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 140–141 0-930466-17-9Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I 273 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 0-379-00665-0 Tufts University Tufts Digital Collations and Archives Massachusetts 1812 Governor A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 11 November 2021 https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/0v8380808 Burdick Charles 1814 The Massachusetts Manual: or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814 to June 1815 I https://books.google.com/books?id=DP7Y2qQ68wAC&pg=PA26 Boston Charles Callender 26 The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar; for the Year of Our Lord 1814, &c., &c. 1814 https://books.google.com/books?id=wcw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36 Boston John West & Co. 36 Hayward John 1847 A Gazetteer of Massachusetts, &c., &c. https://books.google.com/books?id=4I0-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417 Boston John Hayward 417 Federalist Party Caleb Strong 52,696 50.60% Democratic-Republican Party Elbridge Gerry (incumbent) 51,326 49.28% Scattering 124 0.12% 1,370 1.32% 104,146 Federalist Party Democratic-Republican Party Analysis Although the Federalists in Massachusetts had successfully taken the house and the governor's seat from the Democratic-Republican party in the 1812 election cycle, these gains did not translate into control of the Massachusetts State Senate, which remained in the hands of the Democratic-Republicans.Griffith Elmer The Rise and Development of the Gerrymander https://archive.org/details/risedevelopmento00grif 72-73 Chicago Scott, Foresman and Co 1907 45790508 The cause for this lay in new constitutionally mandated electoral district boundaries that the state had adopted prior to the election. The Republican-controlled legislature had created district boundaries designed to enhance their party's control over state and national offices, leading to some oddly shaped legislative districts.Hart Albert Bushnell Commonwealth History of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/commonwealthhist03hart 3:458 The States History Company New York 1927 1543273 (five volume history of Massachusetts until the early 20th century) Although Gerry was unhappy about the highly partisan districting (according to his son-in-law, he thought it "highly disagreeable"), he signed the legislation. The shape of one of the state senate districts in Essex County was compared to a salamanderGerry, Elbridge 11 903–904 by a local Federalist newspaper in a political cartoon, calling it a "Gerry-mander".Billias George Elbridge Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman https://archive.org/details/elbridgegerryfou0000bill registration 1976 McGraw-Hill Publishers 317 0-07-005269-7 Ever since, the creation of such districts has been called gerrymandering. On May 30, 1812, Nathaniel Ames wrote in his diary that "Strong declared Governor by majority of 600! and not near so many as the illegal vote of Boston." Jacobin and Junto: Or, Early American Politics as Viewed in the Diary of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 1758-1822 Charles Warren 1931 Harvard University Press 249 In Ames' hometown of Dedham, voters cast 299 votes for Elbridge Gerry and 172 for Caleb Strong.Warren 1931 248 The Republicans gained 46 votes over the previous election but the Federalists gained 56.Warren 1931 248 Notes References 1812 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Category:Elbridge Gerry