Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1994

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Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1994
Flag of Massachusetts.svg
  1990 November 8, 1994 1998  
Turnout70.05% Decrease2.svg 5.8 [1]
  William Weld 90s 2.jpg Mark Roosevelt.jpg
Nominee Bill Weld Mark Roosevelt
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Paul Cellucci Bob Massie
Popular vote1,533,390611,650
Percentage70.85%28.26%

Massachusetts gubernatorial election results by municipality, 1994.svg
Results by town. Red indicates towns carried by William Weld, blue indicates towns carried by Mark Roosevelt.

Governor before election

Bill Weld
Republican

Elected Governor

Bill Weld
Republican

The 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994. Bill Weld was re-elected Governor of Massachusetts by the largest margin in state history.

Bill Weld American politician

William Floyd Weld is an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997 and the Libertarian Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election, sharing the ticket with Gary Johnson. He is formally running to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2020.

Governor of Massachusetts head of state and of government of the U.S. commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Governor of Massachusetts is the head of the executive branch of the Government of Massachusetts and serves as commander-in-chief of the Commonwealth's military forces. The current governor is Charlie Baker.

Contents

Republican primary

Governor

Candidates

Declared

Lieutenant Governor

Candidates

Declared

Incumbent Governor Bill Weld and Lieutenant Governor Paul Cellucci were unopposed for renomination.

Democratic primary

Governor

Candidates

Declared
Michael J. Barrett United States State Senator for the 3rd Middlesex District of Massachusetts

Michael John Barrett is the state senator for the 3rd Middlesex District of Massachusetts. Barrett served in the State Senate once before, in 1987-1994, representing another district, before moving to his present home in suburban Lexington 17 years ago. Even earlier, in 1979-1985, he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Reading, North Reading and a portion of Wilmington.

Mark Roosevelt American politician

Mark Roosevelt is the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College. He was the President of Antioch College from January 2011 to December 2015 and superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the second largest school district in Pennsylvania, until December 31, 2010. He is also a former state legislator of Massachusetts and former Democratic candidate for governor of the commonwealth. Roosevelt is the great-grandson of 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt 26th president of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. In polls of historians and political scientists, Roosevelt is generally ranked as one of the five best presidents.

In 1988, Barrett succeeded Bachrach as the Senator from the Middlesex and Suffolk District. The district was composed of Cambridge, Belmont, Watertown, and the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston.

Results

Primary results by municipality Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial primary results by municipality, 1994.svg
Primary results by municipality
Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, 1994
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Mark Roosevelt 215,06147.91%
Democratic George Bachrach 120,56726.86%
Democratic Michael J. Barrett 111,19924.77%
Total votes446,827100.00%

Lieutenant Governor

Candidates

Declared

Robert Kinloch "Bob" Massie IV is an American activist and author who works on issues of global leadership and corporate accountability, social justice, and climate change. He has created or led several organizations, including Ceres, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the New Economy Coalition. His early activism centered on opposition to South Africa's apartheid regime, writing the about the relationship between the US and South Africa in the apartheid era.

Marc D. Draisen is an American Urban planner and politician who represented the 11th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991–1995. He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1994, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bob Massie.

Results

Massachusetts Democratic Lt. Gubernatorial Primary, 1994
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Bob Massie 193,50852.66%
Democratic Marc Draisen 173,89647.34%
Total votes367,404100.00%

General election

Polling

SourceDateWeld (R)Roosevelt (D)
Boston Herald Oct. 2, 199460%29%

Results

Governor Weld defeated Democrat Mark Roosevelt by a 71%–28% margin, the largest gubernatorial margin of victory in Massachusetts history.

Democratic Party (United States) political party in the United States

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.

Roosevelt won only six municipalities statewide (Amherst, Cambridge, Leverett, Otis, Shutesbury and Wendell). All six municipalities voted for Weld in 1990, meaning that he won every municipality in the state in a gubernatorial election.

Amherst, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County. The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The name of the town is pronounced without the h ("AM-erst"), giving rise to the local saying, "only the 'h' is silent", in reference both to the pronunciation and to the town's politically active populace.

Cambridge, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

Leverett, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Leverett is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,876 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.

As of 2018, this is the most recent election in which Boston, Somerville, Lawrence, Chelsea, Brookline, Northampton, Provincetown, Monterey, Great Barrington, Ashfield, Williamstown, Williamsburg, Shelburne, Sunderland, and Pelham voted for the Republican candidate for governor.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1994
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Republican Bill Weld (Paul Cellucci)1,533,39070.85%
Democratic Mark Roosevelt (Bob Massie)611,65028.26%

Other races

Joe Malone (politician) American businessman and former Massachusetts State Treasurer

Joseph Daniel "Joe" Malone is an American businessman, former Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts, and a former member of the Republican Party. In 2010, Malone ran for the Republican nomination for Congress in Massachusetts's 10th congressional district. In 2013, he announced he was leaving the Republican party to become an Independent. Joe Malone is a frequent contributor for Fox 25 as a political analyst.

Shannon OBrien Massachusetts State Treasurer

Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien is a Democrat from Massachusetts. O'Brien served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 through 1993, in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 1995, and was the Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1999 through 2003. In that last position she became the first woman to be elected in Massachusetts to statewide office by her own accord. She was the Democratic Party nominee in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002, but lost in the general election to Mitt Romney.

William F. Galvin American politician

William Francis Galvin is the 27th and current Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth –.

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