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1936 presidential election in Maine

Alf Landon (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Maine in 1936, 55.5% to 41.5%, a margin of 14.0 points and 42,490 votes.

Maine voted 38.2 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Republican hold continued from 1932, when Herbert Hoover won.

Republicans led in 13 of the 16 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Cumberland, cast 53,955 votes and went to the Republican by 13.2 points. The closest was York, where 190 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
Alf Landon won Republican 168,823 55.5%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 126,333 41.5%
All other candidates 9,084 3.0%
Total304,240

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 22,895 42.4% 30,021 55.6% 1,039 53,955 R+13.2
York 18,017 48.6% 17,827 48.1% 1,195 37,039 D+0.5
Penobscot 9,732 31.1% 19,077 60.9% 2,520 31,329 R+29.8
Androscoggin 16,657 60.7% 10,480 38.2% 319 27,456 D+22.5
Kennebec 11,268 41.7% 14,987 55.4% 794 27,049 R+13.7
Aroostook 7,704 33.9% 14,708 64.8% 288 22,700 R+30.9
Oxford 5,836 38.0% 8,778 57.2% 726 15,340 R+19.2
Washington 7,925 54.7% 6,387 44.1% 173 14,485 D+10.6
Somerset 5,282 39.9% 7,558 57.0% 413 13,253 R+17.2
Hancock 3,315 26.1% 9,151 72.1% 222 12,688 R+46.0
Knox 3,991 36.8% 6,567 60.5% 293 10,851 R+23.7
Waldo 2,678 32.8% 5,309 65.0% 177 8,164 R+32.2
Franklin 2,859 36.1% 4,957 62.6% 106 7,922 R+26.5
Piscataquis 3,051 41.9% 4,057 55.7% 179 7,287 R+13.8
Lincoln 1,850 25.6% 5,252 72.8% 114 7,216 R+47.1
Sagadahoc 3,273 46.0% 3,707 52.0% 142 7,122 R+6.1

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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