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 County results Gerry: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Gore: 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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The 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1810.
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Incumbent Federalist Governor Christopher Gore was defeated by Democratic-Republican nominee Elbridge Gerry.
Republicans cast Gore as an ostentatious British-loving Tory who wanted to restore the monarchy (his parents were Loyalists during the Revolution), and Gerry as a patriotic American, while Federalists described Gerry as a "French partizan" and Gore as an honest man devoted to ridding the government of foreign influence. [1] A temporary lessening in the threat of war with Britain aided Gerry. [2]
