1780 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

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1780 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
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Nominee John Hancock James Bowdoin
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote11,2071,033
Percentage91.56%8.44%
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County results
Hancock:      70–80%     80–90%     >90%
No Data/Vote:     
Governor before election

None (The Governor's Council administered the government.)

Elected Governor

John Hancock
Nonpartisan

A gubernatorial election was held in Massachusetts on September 4, 1780. [1] John Hancock, the former delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts, defeated James Bowdoin, the former president of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. [2] The election took place against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War, in which Hancock briefly participated as a major general of the Massachusetts militia. Hancock became the first governor elected under the Constitution of Massachusetts, ratified only the previous June; prior to the election, the Massachusetts Governor's Council administered the government following the removal of the last royal governor. [3]

Results

1780 Massachusetts gubernatorial election [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan John Hancock 11,207 91.56%
Nonpartisan James Bowdoin 1,0338.44%

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References

  1. ↑ "At a Town Meeting on Monday last, ..." New Hampshire Gazette. September 9, 1780.
  2. ↑ Dubin, Michael J. (2003). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 99. ISBN   0786414391.
  3. ↑ Burdick, Charles (1814). The Massachusetts Manual: or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814 to June 1815. Vol. I. Boston: Charles Callender. p. 25.
  4. ↑ Dubin, 99.
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