1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

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Nominee Calvin Coolidge Richard H. Long Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 317,774 192,673 Percentage 60.94% 36.95%

County results Municipality results Coolidge:      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90% Long:      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%

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.

Contents

• Republican primary
• Governor
• Lieutenant governor
• Democratic primary
• Governor 2
• Lieutenant governor 2
• General election
• Results 4
• See also
• References
• Bibliography

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

Democratic primary

General election

Results

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1919 ^{[5] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Calvin Coolidge (incumbent)	317,774	60.94%	10.07
	Democratic	Richard H. Long	192,673	36.95%	9.89
	Socialist	William A. King	7,041	1.35%	0.49
	Socialist Labor	Ingvar Paulsen	2,321	0.45%
	Prohibition	Charles B. Ernst	1,679	0.32%	N/A
	Write-in	All others	9	0.00%

See also

• 1919 Massachusetts legislature

References

Bibliography

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