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1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

The 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1919. This was the last gubernatorial election before the governor's term was extended to two years and the first election following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

Governor Calvin Coolidge was re-elected over Framingham businessman Richard Long in a landslide. This was a rematch of the previous year's contest. Coolidge would be elected Vice President of the United States in 1920 and succeed President Warren Harding upon Harding's death.

Calvin Coolidge, incumbent governor

Governor Coolidge was unopposed for re-nomination.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	129,145	99.98%
	Write-in	24	0.02%
129,169	100.00%

Channing H. Cox, incumbent lieutenant governor

Lieutenant Governor Cox was unopposed for the re-nomination.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	126,805	100.00%
	Write-in	5	0.00%
126,810	100.00%

Frederick Simpson Deitrick, former United States Representative
Eugene Foss, former governor
Richard H. Long, nominee for governor in 1918
George F. Monahan, former state senator

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	53,970	68.06%
	Democratic	11,118	14.02%
	Democratic	9,771	12.32%
	Democratic	4,438	5.60%
	Write-in	10	0.01%
79,297	100.00%

John F. J. Herbert, World War I veteran and former managing editor of the Worcester Evening Post

Herbert was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	60,538	99.99%
	Write-in	5	0.01%
60,543	100.00%

Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
Republican	317,774	60.94%	10.07
Democratic	192,673	36.95%	9.89
Socialist	7,041	1.35%	0.49
Socialist Labor	2,321	0.45%
Prohibition	1,679	0.32%	N/A
Write-in	9	0.00%

1919 Massachusetts legislature

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1920). Election Statistics, 1919. Boston, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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