The 1950 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1950. Democratic incumbent Paul A. Dever defeated Republican Arthur W. Coolidge, Socialist Labor candidate Horace Hillis, and Prohibition candidate Mark R. Shaw.
Democratic primary Paul Dever ran unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Republican primary Candidates Clarence A. Barnes, former Massachusetts attorney general Arthur W. Coolidge, former lieutenant governor Louis E. Denfeld, U.S. Navy admiral Frankland W. L. Miles, justice of the Roxbury District Court Daniel Needham, former commander of the Massachusetts National Guard and Public Safety commissioner Edward Rowe, former state senator from Cambridge
Results
General election Results
See also 1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature
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