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1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

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1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

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Nominee Elbridge Gerry Christopher Gore
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Popular vote 46,541 44,079
Percentage 51.25% 48.54%

Governor before election

Christopher Gore
Federalist

Elected Governor

Elbridge Gerry
Democratic-Republican

The 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1810.

Incumbent Federalist Governor Christopher Gore was defeated by Democratic-Republican nominee Elbridge Gerry.

Republicans cast Gore as an ostentatious British-loving Tory who wanted to restore the monarchy (his parents were Loyalists during the Revolution), and Gerry as a patriotic American, while Federalists described Gerry as a "French partizan" and Gore as an honest man devoted to ridding the government of foreign influence.[1] A temporary lessening in the threat of war with Britain aided Gerry.[2]

General election

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Candidates

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Results

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1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry 46,541 51.25%
Federalist Christopher Gore (incumbent) 44,079 48.54%
Scattering 193 0.21%
Majority 2,462 2.71%
Turnout 90,813
Democratic-Republican gain from Federalist Swing

References

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  1. ^ Billias, p. 313
  2. ^ Buel, pp. 104–07
  3. ^ "MA Governor, 1810". Our Campaigns. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
  4. ^ Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 57. ISBN 1-56802-396-0.
  5. ^ Dubin, Michael J. (2003). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. xxiv. ISBN 978-0-7864-1439-0.
  6. ^ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
  7. ^ Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 273. ISBN 0-379-00665-0.
  8. ^ "Massachusetts 1810 Governor". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
  9. ^ 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. 26.
  10. ^ The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar; for the Year of Our Lord 1814, &c., &c. Boston: John West & Co. 1814. p. 36.
  11. ^ Hayward, John (1847). A Gazetteer of Massachusetts, &c., &c. Boston: John Hayward. p. 417.

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