National Republican Governor Levi Lincoln Jr. was re-elected to an eighth term in office over Democrat Marcus Morton and Anti-Mason Samuel Lathrop.

[1] On the Democratic side, Marcus Morton made no active opposition to Lathrop's candidacy, and the leading Jacksonian journal, the Statesman, folded in August.

Statesman owner and collector of the Port of Boston David Henshaw remained in control of the Massachusetts Jacksonians, and the Morning Post continued to advocate against the Bank of the United States and in favor of anti-masonry, temperance, and the abolition of slavery.

[1] The change in name may have been necessitated by the Statesman's association with John C. Calhoun, who broke fully with the Jackson administration.

[1] Turnout increased, likely due to the Anti-Masonic fervor, which made large gains among the rural eastern towns and carried Franklin and Hampshire counties.