Obama won Boston

Barack Obama’s big weekend in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington State has provided an opportunity to look closer at the numbers for last Tuesday’s Massachusetts Democratic primary. Lost in the Clinton victory in Massachusetts was that Obama actually won Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and a number of notable towns. But the Clinton margin in the old factory cities and mill towns was just too great. Fall River essentially cancelled out Boston and Worcester cancelled Cambridge.

Top 15 cities and towns for Obama by margin of victory:

City	Clinton	Obama	Margin
Boston	51,551	61,322	9,771
Cambridge	9,416	17,213	7,797
Amherst	1,954	4,139	2,185
Northampton	3,458	5,086	1,628
Brookline	6,312	7,850	1,538
Concord	2,141	3,259	1,118
Somerville	8,234	9,033	799
Acton	2,288	2,925	637
Nantucket	893	1,395	502
Wellesley	2,971	3,466	495
Lexington	4,538	5,028	490
Lincoln	698	1,150	452
Williamstown	782	1,229	447
Belmont	3,120	3,552	432
Weston	1,103	1,529	426

Top 15 cities and towns for Clinton by margin of victory:

City	Clinton	Obama	Margin
Fall River	12,544	3,120	9,424
Worcester	15,954	8,826	7,128
New Bedford	11,241	4,377	6,864
Quincy	11,292	5,190	6,102
Peabody	8,198	2,895	5,303
Lynn	8,770	3,766	5,004
Lawrence	6,376	2,049	4,327
Weymouth	7,437	3,159	4,278
Lowell	8,671	4,415	4,256
Revere	6,256	2,138	4,118
Chicopee	6,634	2,526	4,108
Taunton	6,115	2,144	3,971
Medford	8,043	4,741	3,302
Everett	4,480	1,389	3,091
Haverhill	6,478	3,409	3,069

Official results for Cambridge and Somerville:

Votes	Cambridge	Somerville
Biden	32	37
Clinton	9,416	8,234
Dodd	16	5
Edwards	252	264
Gravel	25	39
Kucinich	113	73
Obama	17,213	9,033
Richardson	35	40
No preference	54	110