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1880 presidential election in Maine

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in Maine in 1880, 51.5% to 45.3%, a margin of 6.2 points and 8,868 votes.

Maine voted 6.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes won.

Republicans led in 12 of the 16 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Cumberland, cast 20,034 votes and went to the Republican by 4.1 points. The closest was Aroostook, where 178 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
James A. Garfield won Republican 74,039 51.5%
Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 65,171 45.3%
All other candidates 4,639 3.2%
Total143,849

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 9,339 46.6% 10,167 50.7% 528 20,034 R+4.1
Penobscot 6,307 40.2% 8,186 52.2% 1,186 15,679 R+12.0
York 7,090 47.2% 7,700 51.2% 239 15,029 R+4.1
Kennebec 5,001 38.0% 7,771 59.0% 400 13,172 R+21.0
Androscoggin 4,215 44.7% 4,974 52.8% 239 9,428 R+8.1
Oxford 3,969 46.3% 4,354 50.7% 257 8,580 R+4.5
Hancock 3,698 45.3% 4,314 52.8% 157 8,169 R+7.5
Washington 3,622 44.8% 4,361 54.0% 98 8,081 R+9.1
Somerset 3,526 43.7% 4,090 50.7% 445 8,061 R+7.0
Knox 3,659 52.5% 2,880 41.3% 437 6,976 D+11.2
Waldo 3,848 56.4% 2,748 40.3% 231 6,827 D+16.1
Lincoln 2,890 51.1% 2,669 47.2% 98 5,657 D+3.9
Aroostook 2,738 51.1% 2,560 47.8% 56 5,354 D+3.3
Sagadahoc 1,761 37.1% 2,932 61.8% 48 4,741 R+24.7
Franklin 2,178 46.9% 2,390 51.5% 74 4,642 R+4.6
Piscataquis 1,330 38.9% 1,943 56.8% 146 3,419 R+17.9

Counties as they stood in 1880; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Maine in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+9.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+3.0
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+15.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.0
2000 Al Gore (D) D+5.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+20.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+11.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+22.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+3.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+0.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+23.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.7
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+14.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+41.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.5
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.0
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.3
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+14.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+12.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+37.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+50.2
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.1
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+19.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+29.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+27.1
1896 William McKinley (R) R+38.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+12.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+18.1
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+15.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+14.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+35.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.8