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Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Maine, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1820, Maine has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Prior to 1820, much of the territory currently comprising the state of Maine was part of the state of Massachusetts , and citizens residing in that area ...
Maine at large was potentially considered a secondary battleground during the 2024 election cycle. In 2016, Trump narrowly lost Maine at-large to Hillary Clinton by less than 3% and a margin of 22,142 votes. However, in 2020 Biden won the state by just over 9% and 74,302 votes, though Trump held Maine's 2nd congressional district.
This was the first presidential election since 2004 in which Maine's 2nd congressional district backed the losing candidate, and the 2nd district is the only part of the so-called Blue Wall which Trump won in 2020, referring to states and electoral-vote areas that voted Democratic in every election from 1992 to 2012; Biden thus became the first ...
[4] [5] Trump would win the district again in 2020, despite again losing the state, as well as the election. Maine is the first state to introduce ranked choice voting in elections, and became the first to use it in a presidential election in 2020. [6] [7] In a 2020 study, Maine was ranked as the 14th easiest state for citizens to vote in. [8]
0–9. 1820 United States presidential election in Maine; 1824 United States presidential election in Maine; 1828 United States presidential election in Maine
As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election that the Democratic candidate won Maine's second congressional district along with a majority of counties in the state, as well as these counties (all of which comprise that district): Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, and Washington. This is also the ...
On election day, Clinton carried Maine's two at-large electoral votes with a plurality and won Maine's 1st congressional district, while Trump won Maine's 2nd congressional district, making him the first Republican to do so since George H. W. Bush in 1988 [a] and also making him the first Republican to win an electoral vote from a New England ...
Maine has not voted Republican in any subsequent presidential elections, though Donald Trump would win a single electoral vote from Maine's 2nd district in 2016, 2020 and 2024. As of 2024, this is the last time that a sitting president finished third in a state or (along with Utah) that a non-major party candidate would come in second or better.