MASSACHUSETTS 12 Electoral Votes
Population 
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Secretary of the Commonwealth)
Total Population, July 1, 2004 est.              6,416,505
Total Registration, Oct. 13, 2004                4,098,634
Dem. 1,526,711 (37.25%)   Rep. 532,319 (12.99%)   Lib. 23,900 (0.58%)   GrnRnb. 9,509 (0.23%)   Other 2,000,062 (48.80%)
Massachusetts has: 43 cities and 308 towns; 14 counties.
Five largest counties: Middlesex, Worcester, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk.
Five largest cities: Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, New Bedford.

Government
Governor: Mitt Romney (R) elected Nov. 2002.
State Legislature: The General Court of the Commonwealth of Mass.   House: 160 seats  Senate: 40 seats 
Local: Communities  NACO Counties
U.S. House: 10D - 1. J.Olver (D) | 2. R.Neal (D) | 3. J.McGovern (D) | 4. B.Frank (D) | 5. M.Meehan (D) | 6. J.Tierney (D) | 7. E.Markey (D) | 8. M.Capuano (D) | S.Lynch (D) | 10. W.Delahunt (D).
U.S. Senate: John Kerry (D) first elected 1984, re-elected in 2002, Edward M. Kennedy (D) first elected 1962, re-elected in 2000. 
All ten congressmen were re-elected with comfortable margins; four faced no opponent.

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General Election -- Tuesday November 2, 2004
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.) 
15,022
(0.52)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
1,071,109
(36.78)
Cobb/LaMarche (Grn. Rainbow)
10,623
(0.36)
Kerry/Edewards (Dem.)
1,803,800
(61.94)
Nader/Camejo (Unenrolled)
4,806
(0.17)
All Others
7,028
(0.24)
Total........2,912,388
 
Blanks  15,067
2004 Overview
Native son John Kerry carried Massachusetts with a solid plurality of 732,691 votes (25.16 percentage points).
Past Results
1996
Clinton (Dem.).....1,571,763
(61.47)
Dole (Rep.)............718,107
(28.08)
Perot (Ref.)............227,217 
(8.89)
Others (3+w/ins)......39,699
(1.55)
Total........2,556,786
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1992
Clinton (Dem.).....1,318,639
(47.54)
Bush (Rep.)............805,039 
(29.02)
Perot.....................630,731 
(22.74)
Others (5+w/ins)......19,255
(0.69)
Total........2,773,664
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2000
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)
 16,366
(0.61)
Buchanan/Higgins,Sr.(Ref.)
 11,149
(0.41)
Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
 878,502
(32.50)
+Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)
 1,616,487
(59.80)
Hagelin/Tompkins (Unenr.)
2,884
(0.11)
Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)
173,564
(6.42)
McReynolds/Hollis (w/in)
42
 - 
All others
3,990
 (0.15)
Total........2,702,984

Including 31,022 blanks, 2,734,006 total votes were cast.

2000 Overview
Solidly Democratic Massachusetts went solidly for Gore as he won the state's 12 electoral votes with a plurality of 737,985 votes (27.30 percentage points).  Gore carried all counties.  Ralph Nader's 6.42% was his third best showing of any state.  Massachusetts came to the fore on Oct. 3 when the first presidential debate was held at UMass in Boston; both sides mobilized their supporters, and Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan and Harry Browne were also on hand in the city.  Gore and Lieberman had also visited the state earlier, holding a rally and a fundraising gala in Boston on Sept. 13.

 Primary Election  -- Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Democratic  
Votes
Percent
Richard Gephardt
 1,455
0.24%
Joseph Lieberman
 5,432
0.88%
Wesley K. Clark
 3,109
0.51%
Howard Dean
 17,076
2.78%
Carol Moseley Braun
 1,019
0.17%
John Edwards
 108,051
17.60%
Dennis J. Kucinich
 25,198
4.10%
John F. Kerry
 440,964
71.84%
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.
970
0.16%
Al Sharpton
6,123
1.00%
No Preference
4,451
0.73%
Total
 613,848
All Others 1,340    Blanks 5,407
121 Delegates (93 Pledged, 28 Unpledged) and 16 Alternates
Republican
 
Votes
Percent
George W. Bush
62,773
91.21%
No Preference
6,050
8.79%
Total
68,823
All Others 1,826    Blanks 3,144

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