Election Name: | 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election |
Country: | Massachusetts |
Type: | Presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1809 Massachusetts gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1809 |
Next Election: | 1811 Massachusetts gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1811 |
Election Date: | April 2, 1810 |
Nominee1: | Elbridge Gerry |
Party1: | Democratic-Republican Party |
Popular Vote1: | 46,541 |
Percentage1: | 51.25% |
Nominee2: | Christopher Gore |
Party2: | Federalist Party |
Popular Vote2: | 44,079 |
Percentage2: | 48.54% |
Governor | |
Before Election: | Christopher Gore |
Before Party: | Federalist Party |
After Election: | Elbridge Gerry |
After Party: | Democratic-Republican Party |
The 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1810.
Incumbent Federalist Governor Christopher Gore was defeated by Democratic-Republican nominee Elbridge Gerry.
Republicans cast Gore as an ostentatious British-loving Tory who wanted to restore the monarchy (his parents were Loyalists during the Revolution), and Gerry as a patriotic American, while Federalists described Gerry as a "French partizan" and Gore as an honest man devoted to ridding the government of foreign influence.[1] A temporary lessening in the threat of war with Britain aided Gerry.[2]