Question: What is the date of the New Hampshire primary winner who conquered the 1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial ballot decision ?

text: New Hampshire primary
Winners and runners-up -- Presidential results

The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest (the first being the Iowa caucuses) held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary, its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives (along with the first caucus in Iowa). Spurred by the events of the 1968 election, reforms that began with the 1972 election elevated the two states' importance to the overall election, and began to receive as much media attention as all of the other state contests combined. Examples of this extraordinary coverage have been seen on the campuses of Dartmouth College and Saint Anselm College, as the colleges have held multiple national debates and have attracted media outlets like NPR, Fox News, CNN, NBC, and ABC. The publicity and momentum can be enormous from a decisive win by a frontrunner, or better-than-expected result in the New Hampshire primary. The upset or weak showing by a front-runner changes the calculus of national politics in a matter of hours, as happened in 1952 (D), 1968 (D), 1980 (R), and 2008 (D). Since 1952, the primary has been a major testing ground for candidates for both the Republican and Democratic nominations. Candidates who do poorly frequently drop out, while lesser-known, underfunded candidates who excel in New Hampshire can become serious contenders, garnering large amounts of media attention and campaign funding. Crucially, the New Hampshire primary is not a closed primary, where voter participation is limited by voters' past or recent party registration. Instead, New Hampshire enables any voter who has been undeclared, or re-registers as undeclared (not registered with any party) to vote in either party's primary. Candidates who do well in the state are seen as having a strong appeal to independents - who account for as much as 41% of the electorate. A strong performance in New Hampshire is seen as a bellwether for how well a candidate can do in a general election, given their appeal to less partisan voters who sometimes flood that party's primary, if they want to participate at all.
Primary date Winner Runners-up
February 9 , 2016 Senator Bernie Sanders ( 60.40% ) Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ( 37.95% )
January 10 , 2012 President Barack Obama ( 80.91% ) No other candidate received 4%
January 8 , 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton ( 39.09% ) Senator Barack Obama ( 36.45% ) , former Senator John Edwards ( 16.93% ) , Governor Bill Richardson ( 4.61% ) , Congressman Dennis Kucinich ( 1.36% )
January 27 , 2004 Senator John Kerry ( 38.39% ) Former Governor Howard B . Dean III ( 26.28% ) , General Wesley K. Clark ( 12.43% ) , Senator John Edwards ( 12.05% ) , Senator Joseph I. Lieberman ( 8.60% ) , Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich ( 1.42% )
February 1 , 2000 Vice President Al Gore ( 49.74% ) Former Senator Bill Bradley ( 45.60% )
February 20 , 1996 President Bill Clinton ( 84.37% ) Republican Patrick J. Pat Buchanan * ( 3.68% )
February 18 , 1992 Senator Paul Tsongas ( 33.20% ) Governor Bill Clinton ( 24.78% ) , Senator Bob Kerrey ( 11.08% ) , Senator Tom Harkin ( 10.18% ) , former Governor Jerry Brown ( 8.15% )
February 16 , 1988 Governor Michael Dukakis ( 35.89% ) Congressman Richard A. Dick Gephardt ( 19.94% ) , Senator Paul Simon ( 17.16% ) , Reverend Jesse L. Jackson ( 7.82% ) , Senator Al Gore ( 6.83% ) , Governor Bruce Babbitt ( 4.59% ) , and former Senator Gary Hart ( 3.98% )
February 28 , 1984 Senator Gary Hart ( 39.28% ) Former Vice President Walter Mondale ( 29.35% ) , Senator John Glenn ( 12.49% ) , Reverend Jesse L. Jackson ( 5.53% ) , former Senator George McGovern ( 5.43% ) , President Ronald Reagan ( 5.27% ) , and Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings ( 3.73% )
February 26 , 1980 President Jimmy Carter ( 47.61% ) Senator Edward Kennedy ( 37.69% ) and Governor Jerry Brown ( 9.68% )
February 24 , 1976 Governor Jimmy Carter ( 28.57% ) Congressman Mo Udall ( 22.87% ) , Senator Birch Bayh ( 15.29% ) , former Senator Fred R. Harris ( 10.83% ) , and former Ambassador R. Sargent Shriver ( 8.24% )
March 7 , 1972 Senator Edmund Muskie ( 46.40% ) Senator George McGovern ( 37.15% ) , Mayor Samuel William Yorty ( 6.078% ) , Congressman Wilbur Mills ( 4.01% ) and Senator Vance Hartke ( 2.72% )
March 12 , 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson * ( 49.80% ) Senator Eugene McCarthy ( 42.10% ) , former Vice President Richard Nixon ( 4.58% )
March 10 , 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson ( 95.26% ) Only Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ( 1.58% ) received more than 1% of the vote
March 8 , 1960 Senator John F. Kennedy ( 85.21% ) Businessman Paul C. Fisher ( 13.46% )
March 13 , 1956 Senator Estes Kefauver ( 84.61% ) Former Governor Adlai Stevenson ( 14.84% )
March 11 , 1952 Senator Estes Kefauver ( 54.62% ) President Harry S. Truman ( 43.93% )