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2024 presidential election South Shore MA voter turnout breakdown

Harry November 8, 2024

Every South Shore municipality had fewer votes for the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket than in 2020.
Donald Trump has consistently received support from South Shore voters in every election cycle since 2016.

Nearly 200,000 South Shore voters cast ballots for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020. But the momentum in the region did not return on Tuesday. Harris and Tim WalzThis resulted in thousands fewer Democratic presidential ticket votes by comparison.

Unofficial results from the 21 municipalities that make up the South Shore show 173,936 voters cast ballots for the Harris-Walz ticket. This represents approximately 58% of the votes received between the two years. two major party candidates. In 2020, the Biden-Harris ticket received 62%, or 196,400 votes from the South Shore, according to certified results.

Of course, that 23,000 vote deficit didn’t move the needle in a state that votes reliably blue. The Harris-Walz ticket still garnered 18,000 more votes on the South Shore than Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine did in 2016.

Trump received 66,000 votes in Massachusetts compared to 2020

2024 presidential race called for former President Donald Trump In the early hours of Wednesday. Although he didn’t win Massachusetts, he received at least 66,000 additional votes in the state compared to 2020, with 98% of the votes counted. Harris received nearly 310,000 fewer votes in Massachusetts than Biden in 2020.

Rachael Cobb, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Law at Suffolk University, said South Shore Democrat turnout in 2020 could be considered an “anomaly,” with an increase of 41,000 votes over 2016, and the reasons for that still need to be analyzed. Department of Studies.

There were a wide variety of issues driving South Shore voters to head to the polls on Tuesday. speakers Patriotic Notebook He said the motivations were democracy and the war in Gaza. One voter said he did not vote for Trump or Harris because they thought either presidency would result in the deaths of more Palestinians. A voter who identified himself as a Republican could not vote for Trump due to a difference in ideology.

Other voter issues include the economy and an unpopular incumbent, Cobb said.

How did Democrats fare on the South Shore?

All South Shore municipalities received fewer votes for the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket than in 2020. This year’s deficit ranged from 145 fewer votes as seen in Plymouth to 5,755 fewer votes in Quincy.

The district turned out to be nearly the same percentages as in 2016 (58% Democrat and 42% Republican); It’s a similarity that strikes Cobb.

How did Republicans fare on the South Shore?

Meanwhile, regardless of the vice presidential candidate, the district’s support for Trump has risen steadily with each presidential election cycle.

This election cycle, Trump received 127,918 votes in the South Shore; This represented an increase of 8,300 Republican votes over 2020. The increase in support between 2016 and 2020 was around 5,600 votes.

In all but three South Shore towns (Duxbury, Norwell and Randolph), more Republicans voted for the 2024 Trump-JD Vance ticket than for the Trump-Mike Pence ticket in 2020. Plymouth had the biggest increase in Trump support, with 2,407 votes. this year. The gap in Republican support between the two elections was as narrow as five votes, as seen in Randolph.

Four South Coast towns turn from blue to red

Four South Shore towns that were red in 2016 but turned blue in 2020 were back for Trump in 2024: Hanover, Kingston, Pembroke and Whitman. Rockland, which had higher Democratic turnout in 2016 and 2020, had a 31-vote Republican majority this year.

Voter registration on the South Shore increased by nearly 25,000 voters between 2020 and 2024, with most of that increase in unregistered voters. At the same time, the number of registered Democrats and Republicans in the district decreased by 11,000 and 3,600, respectively.

Republicans in the South Shore and Massachusetts saw “healthy turnout” overall, Cobb said. “This was a good year for Republicans.”

In the state legislature, Democrats shifted one seat and Republicans shifted three seats. WBUR.

“If your goal is to get higher turnout, Democrats haven’t been that successful,” he said. “For whatever reason, this was not a galvanizing choice.”

Efforts to attract more Democratic voters to the polls in Massachusetts may be different if incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Warren faces a tougher reelection fight, Cobb said. But he said mobilization efforts are largely focused on the presidential election and swing states. Cobb noted that Democrats’ energy level “isn’t as high” compared to Republicans who “want to make a statement” with their votes.

Here’s a breakdown of how the South Shore is voting for president in 2024.

Which way did South Shore voters go on 5 questions for Massachusetts 2024?

As for the five ballot measures that Massachusetts voters decided on, there were no questions when it came to Question 5.

Excluding three towns where Patriot Ledger is awaiting results — Cohasset, Hanover and Whitman — 73 percent of South Shore voters rejected a proposal to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.

Another easy question for voters in the district to decide was whether to allow an independently elected state auditor to audit the legislature. Approximately 73% of the 270,733 votes cast were in support.

A narrower decision was made for Question 3, which asked whether rideshare drivers should be allowed to unionize. While the state passed the measure with 53% support, voters on the South Shore are more divided but tend to reject the measure by fewer than 4,000 votes.

About 59% of South Shore voters supported getting rid of MCAS tests as a high school graduation requirement, while 58% did not want psychedelics legalized.

Hannah Morse discusses the growth and development of The Patriot Ledger. Contact him at: [email protected].