1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
	Robinson: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Butler: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%
Governor before election; Benjamin Franklin Butler; Democratic	Elected Governor ; George D. Robinson; Republican

The 1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6.

Governor Benjamin Butler ran for re-election on a fusion ticket between the Democratic Party and the Greenback Labor Party but was defeated by Republican U.S. Representative George D. Robinson.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In the concurrent but separate election for Lieutenant Governor, Republican Oliver Ames was re-elected to a second term.

Republican nomination

1883 Republican state convention^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George D. Robinson	996	87.52%
	Republican	Charles Francis Adams Jr.	117	10.28%
	Republican	George A. Bruce	35	3.08%
	Republican	Thomas Talbot	6	0.53%
	Republican	Henry Cabot Lodge	5	0.44%
	Republican	Charles R. Codman Sr.	3	0.26%
	Republican	Benjamin W. Harris	2	0.18%
	Republican	Rufus S. Frost	1	0.09%
	Republican	Alexander H. Rice	1	0.09%
	Republican	Alanson W. Beard	1	0.09%
	Republican	Henry B. Pierce	1	0.09%
Total votes			1,138	100.00%

1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election^[5]^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Republican	George D. Robinson	160,092	51.25%
Democratic	Benjamin Franklin Butler (inc.)	150,228	48.10%
Prohibition	Charles Almy	1,881	0.60%
Others	Others	156	0.05%
Republican gain from Democratic		Swing

Massachusetts Lt. gubernatorial election, 1883^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Republican	Oliver Ames (inc.)	161,399	51.69%
Democratic	James S. Greenfield^[7]	147,661	47.29%
Prohibition	John Blackmer^[8]	1,911	0.61%
Greenback	Nathaniel S. Cushing^[9]	1,091	0.35%
Others	Others	154	0.05%
Republican hold		Swing

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^ "BUTLER'S OPPONENT NAMED: GEORGE D. ROBINSON FOR GOVERNOR". The New York Tribune. September 20, 1883. p. 1.
^ "MA Governor, 1883". OurCampaigns. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court, 1884. Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers. 1884.
^ "Ward 11. Regular Democratic Ticket". Boston, Massachusetts: Kiley, Printer. 7 Spring Lane. 1883. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
^ "Past Prohibition Party Candidates...MA Vote Records".
^ Alexander McBride, ed. (1884). The Evening Journal Almanac, 1884. p. 54.