/Massachusetts
1956 Massachusetts Senate Race (Class I)
CompletedFinal Election Results
Votes allocated by demographic reach each turn. Final 4 turns = 25%; earlier turns = 75%.
Final Results1.96M votes cast · 49 turns
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
 Sofia HarrisNPP Democratic Party | 1.22M | 62.2% |
 Rachel WuNPP Farmer-Labor Party | 741.3k | 37.8% |
Vote share
Persuasion Drivers
MAWhy Massachusetts voters lean toward Sofia Harris over Rachel Wu. Each driver is signed: + = lift, − = drag. Drivers are relative within this list and only move the persuadable slice of each party's vote, so their real effect is small. Coattail rows are direct share tilts in %. A raw vote lead does not equal the sum of these bars.
Persuasion drivers (pts of the persuadable slice)
Candidate Support0.0 pts
Policy alignment+0.2 pts
Money0.0 pts
Incumbency0.0 pts
Ceiling this cycle: at most 20.0% of Rachel Wu's vote can be persuaded across to Sofia Harris, and 20.0% of Sofia Harris's vote can be persuaded away. Registration lean sets the starting split and how hard a party is to move, not the final share. These drivers add up to 0.2 pts of that movable slice.
Election Trends
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