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The1847 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8.
Incumbent Whig GovernorGeorge N. Briggs was re-elected to a fifth term in office over DemocratCaleb Cushing. This was the last election in which the Whig Party received a majority of the vote; after the emergence of the Free Soil Party in 1848, Whigs only won pluralities before fading away entirely by the 1857 election.
| 1847 Massachusetts Democratic Convention[1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ballot | 1 | 2 |
| Cushing | 153 | 264 |
| Davis | 117 | 87 |
| Henshaw | 65 | 0 |
| Bishop | 14 | 0 |
| Others | 19 | 10 |
| Total | 368 | 361 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whig | George N. Briggs (incumbent) | 53,742 | 50.97% |  2.81 | |
| Democratic | Caleb Cushing | 39,398 | 37.36% |  4.78 | |
| Liberty | Samuel Edmund Sewall | 9,193 | 8.72% | 1.09 | |
| Know Nothing | Francis Baylies | 2,876 | 2.73% | 0.63 | |
| Write-in | 234 | 0.22% | 0.26 | ||
| Total votes | 105,443 | 100.00% | |||
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