1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
November 4, 1919 (1919-11-04)
 
Nominee Calvin Coolidge Richard H. Long
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 317,774 192,673
Percentage 60.94% 36.95%
County results
Coolidge:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Long:      50–60%
Governor before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

 Elected Governor

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

The 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1919. This was the last gubernatorial election before the governor's term was extended to two years and the first election following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

Governor Calvin Coolidge was re-elected over Framingham businessman Richard Long in a landslide. This was a rematch of the previous year's contest. Coolidge would be elected Vice President of the United States in 1920 and succeed President Warren Harding upon Harding's death.

Republican primary

Governor

Candidates

Governor Coolidge was unopposed for re-nomination.

Results

Republican Gubernatorial primary, 1919[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 129,145 99.98%
Write-in All others 24 0.02%
Total votes 129,169 100.00%

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Lieutenant Governor Cox was unopposed for the re-nomination.

Results

Republican Gubernatorial primary, 1919[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Channing H. Cox 126,805 100.00%
Write-in All others 5 0.00%
Total votes 126,810 100.00%

Democratic primary

Governor

Candidates

Results

Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1919[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Richard H. Long 53,970 68.06%
Democratic Eugene Foss 11,118 14.02%
Democratic George F. Monahan 9,771 12.32%
Democratic Frederick S. Deitrick 4,438 5.60%
Write-in All others 10 0.01%
Total votes 79,297 100.00%

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

  • Joseph F. J. Herbert, World War I veteran and former managing editor of the Worcester Evening Post

Herbert was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1919[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Joseph F. J. Herbert 60,538 99.99%
Write-in All others 5 0.01%
Total votes 60,543 100.00%

General election

Results

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1919[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 317,774 60.94% Increase10.07
Democratic Richard H. Long 192,673 36.95% Decrease9.89
Socialist William A. King 7,041 1.35% Decrease0.49
Socialist Labor Ingvar Paulsen 2,321 0.45% Steady
Prohibition Charles B. Ernst 1,679 0.32% N/A
Write-in All others 9 0.00% Steady

See also

References

  1. ↑ Election Statistics 1919, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Election Statistics 1919, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Election Statistics 1919.
  4. ↑ Election Statistics 1919, p. 125.
  5. ↑ "MA Governor, 1919". Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ Election Statistics 1919, p. 210.

Bibliography

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1920). Election Statistics, 1919. Boston, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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