Framingham Presidential Election Results: Trump Vote Unchanged

Framingham MA

04 November, 2020

2:31 PM

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FRAMINGHAM, MA — President Donald Trump's loss in Massachusetts on Tuesday was expected, but was it worse than his loss in 2016? With almost 100 percent of precincts reporting on Wednesday afternoon, Joe Biden was beating Trump 66 to 32.5 percent statewide. In 2016, Hillary Clinton earned 60 percent of the vote to Trump's 33 percent. So how did Trump's support in Framingham compare with his vote totals in 2016? It was almost unchanged. In 2020, Trump earned just shy of 24 percent of total votes cast. He earned 23.65 percent in 2016. The big difference was Biden taking a larger share of votes compared to Clinton, improving on her win in Framingham by five points. 2020 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris — 23,613, 73.2 percentDonald Trump/Mike Pence — 7,705, 23.91 percentVotes cast: 32,217, 77.30 percent turnout 2016 Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine — 20,277, 68.23 percentDonald Trump/Mike Pence — 7,031, 23.65 percentVotes cast: 29,718, 75 percent turnout Not every community in Middlesex County broke for Biden. Trump squeaked out wins in Ashby and Dracut, where he bested Biden by a mere 110 votes, according to unofficial results. Trump had struggled to overcome polling deficits in key states in the campaign's final days. He ran strong as expected in rural areas, but lost support among other critical voting groups, including suburban women in several battleground states. CNN reported in October that polling put Biden up by 25 points among women voters. According to the final 2016 pre-election polls, Clinton won women voters by 13 points among likely voters and 14 points among registered voters.