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1938-11-08 Gubernatorial Election Results for Massachusetts


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County Turnout Leverett Saltonstall
(R)		 James Curley
(D)		 William McMasters
(Townsend)		 Jeffrey Campbell
(Socialist)		 Other Margin TOTAL
County data not available.
TOTAL 65% 941,46553.3% 793,88444.9% 7,2060.4% 5,6910.3% 18,1051.0% 147,581 1,766,351
Total R vote: 941,465 (53.3%)      Total D vote: 793,884 (44.9%)      Total Other vote: 31,002 (1.8%)
* incumbent

Other candidates included: Henning Blomen (Socialist Labor), 3,927 votes ; Otis Hood (Communist), 3,488 votes ; Roland Bruneau (I), 3,400 votes ; William Davenport (Independent Tax Reform), 3,118 votes ; George Thompson (Prohibition), 2,046 votes ; Charles Manser (Sound Sensible Government), 1,533 votes


Republican Primary
Pos Candidate Votes %
1   Leverett Saltonstall 323,003 72.7%
2   William McMasters 48,133 10.8%
3   Richard Whitcomb 45,139 10.2%
4   Frederick Butler 27,739 6.2%
    Other 122 0.0%
TOTAL VOTES 444,136  


Democrat Primary
Pos Candidate Votes %
1   James Curley 210,286 41.1%
2   Charles Hurley* 168,161 32.9%
3   Francis Kelly 101,978 19.9%
4   Richard Russell 30,485 6.0%
    Other 383 0.1%
TOTAL VOTES 511,293