Levi Lincoln Jr. National Republican Levi Lincoln Jr. National Republican The first 1831 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 14.

National Republican Governor Levi Lincoln Jr. was re-elected to a seventh term in office over Democrat Marcus Morton.

Lincoln was elected to a reduced term of eight months expiring in January, instead of the typical year-long term ending in May.

Though the newly established Anti-Masonic Party was not strong enough to nominate a governor, Heman Lincoln and Henry Shaw both ran as independents appealing to Anti-Masonic voters.

[1] The two Anti-Masons carried twenty-eight towns in the central part of the state; Democrats lost ground.