Political party strength in Massachusetts
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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in Massachusetts:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of the Commonwealth
- Attorney General
- Treasurer and Receiver-General
- Auditor
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- Massachusetts Senate
- Massachusetts House of Representatives
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes, and whether they 
won the election or 
lost the election.
Each time an official is elected or re-elected, a new box for that official is included to indicate their repeated political party strength.
| Year | Executive/Constitutional offices | General Court | United States Congress | Electoral votes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of the Commonwealth |
Attorney General | Treasurer | Senate[1] | House[2] | U.S. Senator (Class I) |
U.S. Senator (Class II) |
U.S. House | ||
| 1780 | John Hancock (I) | Thomas Cushing (I) | John Avery Jr. (F) | Robert Treat Paine (F) | Henry Gardner (NP) | ||||||
| 1781 | [?] | [?] | |||||||||
| 1782 | |||||||||||
| 1783 | Thomas Ivers (NP) | [?] | [?] | ||||||||
| 1784 | |||||||||||
| 1785 | vacant[a] | [?] | [?] | ||||||||
| James Bowdoin (F) | |||||||||||
| 1786 | |||||||||||
| 1787 | John Hancock (I) | Alexander Hodgdon (NP) |
[?] | [?] | |||||||
| 1788 | Benjamin Lincoln (F) | ||||||||||
| 1789 | Samuel Adams (DR) | F majority | F majority | Tristram Dalton (PA) | Caleb Strong (PA) | 6PA, 2AA | Washington / Adams | ||||
| 1790 | James Sullivan (DR) | F majority | F majority | ||||||||
| 1791 | F majority | F majority | George Cabot (PA) | 7PA, 1AA | |||||||
| 1792 | Thomas Davis (NP) | F majority | F majority | ||||||||
| 1793 | vacant[a] | F majority | F majority | 11PA, 3AA | Washington / Adams | ||||||
| 1794 | Samuel Adams (DR) | Moses Gill (F) | F majority | F majority | |||||||
| 1795 | F majority | F majority | George Cabot (F) | Caleb Strong (F) | 10F, 4DR | ||||||
| 1796 | F majority | F majority | Benjamin Goodhue (F) | Theodore Sedgwick (F) | 9F, 5DR | ||||||
| 1797 | Increase Sumner (F) | Peleg Coffin Jr. (F) | 29F, 1DR, 10? | 93F, 54DR, 52? | 11F, 3DR | Adams (F) / T. Pinckney (F) | |||||
| 1798 | 29F, 4DR, 7? | 139F, 54DR, 22? | |||||||||
| 1799 | vacant[a] | 35F, 3DR, 2? | 122F, 61DR, 30? | Samuel Dexter (F) | 12F, 2DR | ||||||
| 1800 | Governor's Council[b] | vacant | 33F, 4DR, 3? | 166F, 81DR, 13? | 11F, 3DR | ||||||
| Caleb Strong (F) | Samuel Phillips Jr. (F) | Jonathan Mason (F) | Dwight Foster (F) | ||||||||
| 1801 | 23F, 16DR, 1? | 152F, 113DR, 14? | 7F, 7DR | Adams/ C. C. Pinckney (F) | |||||||
| 1802 | Edward Robbins (F) | Jonathan Jackson (F) | 28F, 12DR | 133F, 88DR, 13? | 8F, 6DR | ||||||
| 1803 | 28F, 12DR | 152F, 102DR, 4? | John Quincy Adams (F) | Timothy Pickering (F) | 10F, 7DR | ||||||
| 1804 | 26F, 14DR | 150F, 129DR, 2? | |||||||||
| 1805 | 22F, 18DR | 181F, 163DR, 1I, 2? | 10DR, 7F | Jefferson/ G. Clinton (DR) | |||||||
| 1806 | Jonathan L. Austin (DR) | Thomson J. Skinner (DR) | 21DR, 19F | 263DR, 215F, 3? | |||||||
| 1807 | Jonathan L. Austin (DR) | Thomson J. Skinner (DR) | James Sullivan (DR) | Levi Lincoln Sr. (DR) | Barnabas Bidwell (DR) | 21DR, 19F | 250DR, 130F, 2? | 11DR, 6F | |||
| 1808 | vacant[a] | William Tudor (F) | Josiah Dwight (I) | 23F, 17DR | 253F, 231DR | James Lloyd (F) | |||||
| 1809 | Christopher Gore (F) | David Cobb (F) | 22F, 18DR | 316F, 278DR | 9F, 8DR | C. C. Pinckney/ King (F) | |||||
| 1810 | Elbridge Gerry (DR) | William Gray (DR) | Benjamin Homans (DR) | Perez Morton (DR) | Thomas Harris (NP) | 20F, 20DR[c] | 335DR, 308F | 10F, 7DR | |||
| 1811 | Jonathan L. Austin (DR) | 21DR, 19F | 345DR, 315F | Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR) |
9DR, 8F | ||||||
| 1812 | Caleb Strong (F) | William Phillips Jr. (F) | Alden Bradford (F) | John T. Apthorp (F) | 29DR, 11F | 429F, 320DR | |||||
| 1813 | 29F, 11DR | 420F, 215DR, 1? | Christopher Gore (F) | 16F, 4DR | D. Clinton/ Ingersoll (F) | ||||||
| 1814 | 27F, 13DR | 354F, 159DR, 1? | |||||||||
| 1815 | 25F, 15DR | 303F, 149DR | 18F, 2DR | ||||||||
| 1816 | 22F, 18DR | 324F, 214DR, 3? | Eli P. Ashmun (F) | ||||||||
| 1817 | Daniel Sargent (F) | 27F, 13DR | 189F, 92DR, 5? | Harrison Gray Otis (F) | 11F, 9DR | King/ Howard (F) | |||||
| 1818 | 26F, 14DR | 132F, 82DR, 10? | Prentiss Mellen (F) | ||||||||
| 1819 | 22F, 18DR | 231F, 161DR, 16? | 13DR, 7F | ||||||||
| 1820 | 23F, 8DR | 87F, 64DR, 42? | 14DR, 6F | ||||||||
| 1821 | 24F, 7DR | F majority | Elijah H. Mills (F) | 7F, 6DR | 8 – Monroe / Stockton (DR/F)7 – Monroe/ Tompkins (DR) | ||||||
| 1822 | Nahum Mitchell (F) | 31F, 9DR | 105F, 53DR, 2? | James Lloyd (F) | |||||||
| 1823 | William Eustis (DR) | Levi Lincoln Jr. (DR) | 24DR, 16F | DR majority | 7F, 6DR | ||||||
| 1824 | Marcus Morton (DR) | Edward D. Bangs (NR) | 28DR, 12F | DR majority | |||||||
| 1825 | vacant[a] | NR majority | NR majority | Elijah H. Mills (NR) | James Lloyd (NR) | 12NR, 1J | Adams/ Calhoun (NR) | ||||
| Levi Lincoln Jr. (NR) | Thomas L. Winthrop (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1826 | NR majority | NR majority | Nathaniel Silsbee (NR) | ||||||||
| 1827 | Joseph Sewall (NP) | NR majority | NR majority | Daniel Webster (NR) | 13NR | ||||||
| 1828 | NR majority | NR majority | |||||||||
| 1829 | 37NR, 1D, 2? | NR majority | 13NR | Adams/ Rush (NR) | |||||||
| 1830 | 38NR, 1A-M, 1D | NR majority | |||||||||
| 1831 | 29NR, 6A-M, 2D, 3? | 320NR, 87A-M, 68D, 6WM | 13NR | ||||||||
| 1832 | James T. Austin (NR) | Hezekiah Barnard (NR) | 36NR, 3A-M, 1D | 313NR, 119A-M, 92D, 4? | |||||||
| 1833 | Samuel Turell Armstrong (NR) |
37NR, 3A-M | 372NR, 117A-M, 73D, 11? | 9NR, 2A-M, 1J | Clay/ Sergeant (AJ) | ||||||
| 1834 | John Davis (W) | Samuel Turell Armstrong (W) |
Edward D. Bangs (W) | James T. Austin (NR) | 32NR, 8A-M | 314NR, 131A-M, 116D | |||||
| 1835 | vacant[a] | 40W | 450W, 87D, 78A-M, 3WM | John Davis (NR) | 8W, 3A-M, 1J | ||||||
| 1836 | Edward Everett (W) | George Hull (W) | John P. Bigelow (W) | 22W, 10D, 8A-M | 397W, 174D, 53A-M | ||||||
| 1837 | David Wilder Jr. (W) | 24W, 16D | 373W, 262D | Daniel Webster (W) | John Davis (W) | 10W, 2D | Webster/ Granger (W) | ||||
| 1838 | 40W | 363W, 114D, 3? | |||||||||
| 1839 | 37W, 3D | 344W, 178D | 10W, 2D | ||||||||
| 1840 | Marcus Morton (D) | 21W, 19D | 277W, 242D | ||||||||
| 1841 | John Davis (W) | 37W, 3D | 278W, 119D | Rufus Choate (W) | Isaac C. Bates (W) | 11W, 1D | Harrison/ Tyler (W) | ||||
| 1842 | Thomas Russell (NP) | 27W, 13D | 201W, 135D | ||||||||
| 1843 | Marcus Morton (D) | Henry H. Childs (D) | John A. Bolles (W) | office abolished | John Mills (W) | 28D, 12W | 177W, 172D, 3Lty | 8W, 2D | |||
