1917 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

Gubernatorial elections were held in Massachusetts on November 6, 1917.

1917 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
November 6, 1917 (1917-11-06)
 
Nominee Samuel W. McCall Frederick Mansfield
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 226,145 135,676
Percentage 58.29% 34.97%
Governor before election

Samuel W. McCall
Republican

 Elected Governor

Samuel W. McCall
Republican

Elections in Massachusetts

Republican primary

Governor

Candidates
Declared

Results
1917 Republican gubernatorial primary[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Samuel W. McCall 82,641 77.34%
Republican Grafton D. Cushing 24,212 22.66%
Write-in All others 3 0.00%
Total votes 106,856 100.00%

Lieutenant Governor

Candidates
Declared

Results

Lieutenant Governor Coolidge was unopposed for the Republican nomination.

1917 Republican lieutenant gubernatorial primary[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Calvin Coolidge 95,858 99.99%
Write-in All others 9 0.01%
Total votes 95,867 100.00%

Democratic primary

Governor

Candidates
Declared

Results

Mansfield was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

1917 Democratic gubernatorial primary[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Frederick Mansfield 44,155 99.94%
Write-in All others 27 0.06%
Total votes 44,182 100.00%

Lieutenant Governor

Candidates
Declared
  • Matthew Hale, delegate-at-large to the 1917 Constitutional Convention[4] and former publisher of the Boston Journal

Results

Hale was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

1917 Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial primary[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Matthew Hale 6,518 98.89%
Write-in All others 73 1.11%
Total votes 6,591 100.00%

Independents and third parties

Prohibition Party
  • Chester R. Lawrence, perennial candidate from Boston

Socialist Party
  • John McCarty, perennial candidate from Abington

Socialist Labor Party
  • James Hayes, perennial candidate from Plymouth

General election

Results
1917 Massachusetts gubernatorial election[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Republican Samuel W. McCall 226,145 58.29% 5.84
Democratic Frederick Mansfield 135,676 34.97% 8.70
Socialist John McCarty 16,608 4.28% 2.27
Socialist Labor James Hayes 5,243 1.35% 0.61
Prohibition Chester Lawrence 4,265 1.10% 0.03
Write-in All others 0 0.00%
Total votes 387,937 100.00%

References
  1. Election Statistics 1917, p. 169.
  2. Election Statistics 1917, p. 174.
  3. Election Statistics 1917, p. 267.
  4. Election Statistics 1918, p. 4.
  5. Election Statistics 1918, p. 272.
  6. "MA Governor, 1917". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  7. Election Statistics 1917, p. 12.

Bibliography

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1917). Election Statistics, 1917. Boston, MA.

See also
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