The Towns Bill Weld won

[Arizona Iced Tea]

Although Bill Weld only got 9.3% in the Massachusetts GOP Primary, he did actually manage to win two towns.

Weld won Pelham with 58.8% of the vote and earned 10 votes compared to Trump's 7. In the general however, the town went overwhelmingly to Biden with nearly 89% of the vote.

The other town he won was Gosnold where Weld edged Trump out with just 1 vote by 4-3. Once again, Biden won this town in November, although by a more modest 69% vote share.

What is weird however, is that Trump won the rest of the towns in Massachusetts overwhelmingly so I'm not sure why Weld won these. He doesn't appear to have a connection to any of them, and although they could just be very liberal, keep in mind that Trump got over 80% in Boston. Very few votes were cast however, so it could just be a fluke or something but it is still interesting IMO.

[sguberman]

I wonder if they were any Weld primary Trump general voters? I assume a few socially liberal republicans who didn't like Trump but also didn't like Biden.

[HAnnA MArin County]

Not sure if there’s any correlation but I think Gosnold is the poorest town in Massachusetts.

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

I wonder if they were any Weld primary Trump general voters? I assume a few socially liberal republicans who didn't like Trump but also didn't like Biden.

NeverTrumpers who were so turned off by the riots and/or the lockdowns that they held their nose and voted for him.

However, given that "people who changed their politics" is a cop-out answer to this question, I'll just say I doubt there were many. Unlike primary challengers to incumbent presidents from years past, Weld actually endorsed the incumbent president's opponent. And I don't see people who voted against Trump in the Republican primary willing to support him in the general unless, like I said, events over the spring and summer gave them that final push.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Pelham is mostly UMass spillover. Tons of off-campus students (I briefly lived out that way myself), professors, university staff, and their families. Not sure about Gosnold but it has so few people that it's probably a fluke.