1830 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

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1830 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
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  1829 April 5, 1830 (1830-04-05) Apr 1831  
  LLincolnJr.jpg Marcus Morton.jpg
Nominee Levi Lincoln Jr. Marcus Morton
Party National Republican Democratic
Popular vote30,90814,440
Percentage65.52%30.61%

1830 Massachusetts gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
County results
Lincoln:      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Morton:      50–60%

Governor before election

Levi Lincoln Jr.
National Republican

Elected Governor

Levi Lincoln Jr.
National Republican

The 1830 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 5.

Contents

National Republican Governor Levi Lincoln Jr. was re-elected to a sixth term in office over Democrat Marcus Morton.

General election

Candidates

Campaign

For the first time, Justice Morton consented to his nomination. Privately, he expressed little hope of success and said that he did not hope to obtain more than one third of the votes.

David Henshaw's Statesman campaigned vigorously for Morton, upbraiding Lincoln as a renegade Republican who had accepted support of the Essex Junto and lauding Morton's support for the Warren Bridge Company. Theodore Lyman II's rival Democratic Evening Bulletin made no effort on Morton's behalf. [1]

Lincoln took little interest in the election, focusing on new projects for railroads and Massachusetts's claim for war debts against the federal government. [1]

Results

Lincoln was once again victorious, though by a dramatically reduced margin. Morton wrote to John C. Calhoun to express his view that the Jackson administration had cost him several thousand votes by dismissing Henshaw supporters from federal office to placate the aristocratic Lyman wing of the party. [1]

1830 Massachusetts gubernatorial election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Republican Levi Lincoln Jr. (incumbent) 30,908 65.52% Decrease2.svg6.11
Democratic Marcus Morton 14,44030.61%Increase2.svg11.11
Write-in 1,8253.87%Decrease2.svg5.00
Total votes47,173 100.00%

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Darling, Arthur B. (1925). Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–1848. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 75–76.
  2. "MA Governor, 1830". OurCampaigns. Retrieved May 17, 2021.