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1984 presidential election in Maine

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in Maine in 1984, 60.8% to 38.8%, a margin of 22.1 points and 121,985 votes.

Maine voted 3.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+18.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1980, when Ronald Reagan also won.

Republicans led in 16 of the 16 counties as they stood then. The largest, Cumberland, cast 116,026 votes and went to the Republican by 13.7 points. The closest was Piscataquis, where 2,411 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
Ronald Reagan won Republican 336,500 60.8%
Walter Mondale Democratic 214,515 38.8%
All other candidates 2,129 0.4%
Total553,144

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 49,894 43.0% 65,842 56.7% 290 116,026 R+13.7
York 28,241 39.2% 43,554 60.4% 275 72,070 R+21.2
Penobscot 24,445 37.6% 40,403 62.1% 206 65,054 R+24.5
Kennebec 21,183 39.8% 31,753 59.7% 255 53,191 R+19.9
Androscoggin 19,885 42.3% 26,904 57.2% 211 47,000 R+14.9
Aroostook 12,348 36.0% 21,837 63.6% 153 34,338 R+27.6
Oxford 8,430 35.2% 15,408 64.3% 110 23,948 R+29.1
Hancock 7,764 34.5% 14,660 65.1% 87 22,511 R+30.6
Somerset 7,657 36.9% 13,010 62.6% 104 20,771 R+25.8
Knox 6,024 34.6% 11,311 65.0% 66 17,401 R+30.4
Lincoln 4,869 32.0% 10,312 67.7% 55 15,236 R+35.7
Washington 5,308 35.2% 9,713 64.4% 60 15,081 R+29.2
Sagadahoc 5,208 35.9% 9,222 63.5% 90 14,520 R+27.6
Waldo 5,289 37.3% 8,814 62.2% 63 14,166 R+24.9
Franklin 4,954 37.1% 8,330 62.4% 65 13,349 R+25.3
Piscataquis 3,016 35.6% 5,427 64.0% 39 8,482 R+28.4

Counties as they stood in 1984; 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