Bill Clinton Democratic Bill Clinton Democratic The 1996 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election.

A solidly blue state, Massachusetts was won by incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton in a landslide.

Clinton took 61.47% of the popular vote over Republican challenger Bob Dole, who took 28.09%, a victory margin of 33.39%.

[1] Like New England as a whole, Massachusetts is a largely secular and liberal society in the modern era, and thus it rejected an increasingly conservative Republican Party dominated by Evangelical Christians.

As of 2020, this is the last occasion that the town of Sherborn voted Republican and the last occasion that the towns of Blandford, East Brookfield, Hampden, Hubbardston, Montgomery, Oakham, Southwick, Tolland, and West Bridgewater voted Democratic in a presidential election.