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[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]
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 ...
Biden handily carried Maine's 1st congressional district by 23%, while Trump carried its 2nd congressional district by 7.4%, winning a single electoral vote from the state. This marked the first election in history in which Maine and Nebraska both split their electoral votes. Ranked-choice tabulation was ultimately not used as Biden earned a ...
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Maine on November 3, 2020. [1] The office of the Maine Secretary of State oversaw the election process, including voting and vote counting. [2] To vote by mail, registered Maine voters must have requested a ballot by October 29, 2020. [3] As of early October some 339,930 voters had requested mail ...
Maine ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot, fueling a national effort to disqualify him from the 2024 election due to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Maine has four electoral votes in the Electoral College. [1] Unlike all other states except Nebraska, Maine awards two electoral votes based on the statewide vote, and one vote for each congressional district. The last time it did so was in 1828. [2] Maine was once one of the most Republican states in the nation.
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 ...