MassINC Polling Group conducted a survey of 502 Massachusetts likely voters between Oct 13 and Oct 16, 2016. Respondents were contacted by either Cellphone or Landline and instructed by a live operator. The results of this poll were released on Oct 18, 2016.
The poll was sponsored by WBUR-FM (NPR: Boston).
Results were provided for the only publicly acknowledged question.
Question 2 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the election for President were held today, and the candidates were ROTATE ORDER OF
CANDIDATES Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson, and
Green Party candidate Jill Stein (STINE), for whom would you vote?
If undecided, ask…Even though you say you are undecided -- which way are you leaning as of today?
List not read unless requested by respondent. Order rotated, if read.
| Clinton (D) | Trump (R) | Johnson (L) | Don’t Know / Refused | Stein (G) | Another candidate | Total |
|---|
| All | 54% | 28% | 7% | 6% | 3% | 2% | 502
Likely |
| Female | 64% | 21% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 1% | 51.79%
260 |
| Male | 44% | 36% | 9% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 48.21%
242 |
| Democrat | 80% | 8% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 34.86%
175 |
| Independent | 49% | 30% | 7% | 7% | 4% | 3% | 52.79%
265 |
| Republican | 3% | 79% | 9% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 12.35%
62 |
This question was presented to 502 likely voters from Massachusetts who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 4.4% at the 95% confidence level.
The question wording was provided by MassINC Polling Group and WBUR-FM (NPR: Boston).