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Walsh: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Bird: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Gardner: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1913. Democratic Lieutenant Governor David I. Walsh defeated the Progressive, Republican and independent candidates Charles S. Bird, Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner and incumbent Governor Eugene Foss with 39.77% of the vote. Suffolk County was the only county to give more than 50% of its vote to a candidate and had given Walsh 53.98% of its vote.
Following Governor Foss's exit from the Democratic Party, Lieutenant Governor Walsh was unopposed for the nomination.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | David Walsh | 70,050 | 99.98% | |
Write-in | All others | 17 | 0.02% | |
Total votes | 70,067 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Augustus Peabody Gardner | 43,331 | 53.92% | |
Republican | Everett Chamberlin Benton | 36,934 | 45.96% | |
Write-in | All others | 100 | 0.12% | |
Total votes | 80,365 | 100% |
Bird was unopposed for the nomination.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Progressive | Charles Sumner Bird | 7,452 | 99.96% | |
Write-in | All others | 3 | 0.04% | |
Total votes | 7,455 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | David I. Walsh | 183,267 | 39.77% | ![]() | |
Progressive | Charles Sumner Bird | 127,755 | 27.72% | ![]() | |
Republican | Augustus Peabody Gardner | 116,705 | 25.32% | ![]() | |
Independent | Eugene Foss (incumbent) | 20,171 | 4.38% | N/A | |
Socialist | George H. Wrenn | 9,025 | 1.96% | ![]() | |
Prohibition | Alfred H. Evans | 2,015 | 0.44% | ![]() | |
Socialist Labor | Arthur Elmer Reimer | 1,932 | 0.42% | ![]() | |
Total votes | 345,890 | 100% |
County | Walsh | Votes | Bird | Votes | Gardner | Votes | Foss | Votes | Others | Votes |
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Barnstable | 19.09% | 840 | 34.29% | 1,509 | 34.31% | 1,510 | 10.59% | 466 | 1.73% | 76 |
Berkshire | 37.98% | 5,769 | 25.59% | 3,887 | 27.25% | 4,139 | 4.71% | 715 | 4.48% | 681 |
Bristol | 34.88% | 12,253 | 25.86% | 9,082 | 30.55% | 10,732 | 5.23% | 1,838 | 3.47% | 1,219 |
Dukes | 17.02% | 137 | 29.94% | 241 | 40.25% | 324 | 11.93% | 96 | 0.87% | 7 |
Essex | 32.39% | 20,694 | 24.63% | 15,732 | 36.79% | 23,501 | 2.55% | 1,627 | 3.64% | 2,328 |
Franklin | 27.45% | 1,799 | 26.85% | 1,760 | 35.20% | 2,307 | 5.77% | 378 | 4.73% | 310 |
Hampden | 42.32% | 11,828 | 22.63% | 6,325 | 23.40% | 6,540 | 7.22% | 2,018 | 4.43% | 1,237 |
Hampshire | 36.75% | 3,252 | 17.73% | 1,569 | 32.16% | 2,846 | 8.62% | 763 | 4.73% | 419 |
Middlesex | 37.66% | 37,376 | 33.02% | 32,773 | 23.17% | 23,985 | 3.49% | 3,461 | 1.66% | 1,652 |
Nantucket | 27.27% | 147 | 21.34% | 115 | 34.14% | 184 | 14.29% | 77 | 2.97% | 16 |
Norfolk | 32.77% | 9,325 | 33.57% | 9,552 | 27.29% | 7,765 | 4.25% | 1,208 | 2.13% | 605 |
Plymouth | 31.39% | 6,978 | 38.57% | 8,609 | 21.05% | 4,679 | 4.41% | 980 | 4.41% | 981 |
Suffolk | 53.98% | 49,775 | 23.71% | 21,863 | 16.21% | 14,946 | 3.90% | 3,599 | 2.20% | 2,024 |
Worcester | 41.69% | 23,094 | 26.60% | 14,738 | 23.91% | 13,247 | 5.32% | 2,945 | 2.49% | 1,377 |