Yesterday, I looked at the outcome of the 2024 election in New Hampshire. Now let’s take a deep dive into the Bay State.
Before getting too far into it, the featured image for this post is the same water tower in Hanson, MA that was the subject of controversy back in October when a resident projected a ‘Trump 2024’ sign onto it. For the election, he updated it to a ‘Punisher’ style skull with Trump hair. So very metal.
I did not expect Trump to win Massachusetts. No one did. Hell, our state just reelected Senator Elizabeth Warren. However, it is fun to look at the election map of the state after the fact and think about which town I might want to move to in the coming year.
The map below, via NBC News, shows you where the red is in liberal Massachusetts. That solid band of red in the southeast is most of Bristol County, where I grew up, and part of Plymouth County. The hourglass-shaped section of red in the center of the state is Worcester County. Over on the left, at the bottom of the state is Hampden County.
It should not surprise anyone that some of the reddest areas in Massachusetts are places where working class voters have been hardest hit by the economy and inflation.
Of course, the bluest area is greater Boston which is almost always solid Democrat.
FOX 25 in Boston did a report on the Trumpiest towns in MA:
Full list of Mass. towns Donald Trump won on way to presidential victory over Kamala HarrisEven though Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris handily defeated Republican Donald Trump by about 840,000 votes in Massachusetts, the former president did claim victory in dozens of local communities on his way to winning the 2024 presidential election.Despite Harris’ unsurprising win in the Bay State, Trump was a popular pick among Bay Staters in large chunks of Hampden, Worcester, Plymouth, and Bristol counties, voting results indicated.Trump’s resurgence in Massachusetts was on full display, flipping many communities he lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump won over 70 towns in Massachusetts. These were the top 10:
1. Salisbury — 49.9% of the vote2. Middleton — 53.7% of the vote3. Dracut — 53% of the vote4. Lynnfield — 50.9% of the vote5. Saugus — 54.4% of the vote6. Tewksbury — 50% of the vote7. Rockland — 49.2% of the vote8. Hanover — 51% of the vote9. Pembroke — 50.8% of the vote10. Hanson — 54.7% of the vote
Massachusetts is a beautiful state that is rich in history. I love living here but I really hate the way we vote.
Featured image via NBC News video.
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