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2000 presidential election in Maine

Al Gore (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Maine in 2000, 49.1% to 44.0%, a margin of 5.1 points and 33,335 votes.

Maine voted 4.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1996, when Bill Clinton won.

Democrats led in 11 of the 16 counties and Republicans in 5. The largest, Cumberland, cast 142,620 votes and went to the Democrat by 11.0 points. The closest was Waldo, where 212 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
Al Gore won Democratic 319,951 49.1%
George W. Bush Republican 286,616 44.0%
Ralph Nader Green 37,127 5.7%
All other candidates 8,123 1.2%
Total651,817

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 74,203 52.0% 58,543 41.0% 9,874 142,620 D+11.0
York 46,618 49.3% 42,304 44.7% 5,628 94,550 D+4.6
Penobscot 32,868 44.9% 35,620 48.7% 4,718 73,206 R+3.8
Kennebec 31,198 53.0% 23,967 40.7% 3,742 58,907 D+12.3
Androscoggin 26,251 53.3% 19,948 40.5% 3,046 49,245 D+12.8
Aroostook 17,196 48.9% 16,555 47.1% 1,392 35,143 D+1.8
Hancock 12,983 45.4% 12,732 44.6% 2,859 28,574 D+0.9
Oxford 13,649 49.6% 11,835 43.0% 2,009 27,493 D+6.6
Somerset 11,538 48.2% 10,684 44.6% 1,729 23,951 D+3.6
Knox 9,453 46.1% 8,968 43.7% 2,080 20,501 D+2.4
Lincoln 8,634 43.9% 9,457 48.1% 1,580 19,671 R+4.2
Waldo 8,477 44.3% 8,689 45.4% 1,972 19,138 R+1.1
Sagadahoc 8,844 48.0% 8,052 43.7% 1,510 18,406 D+4.3
Washington 6,701 42.7% 7,958 50.7% 1,049 15,708 R+8.0
Franklin 7,593 49.2% 6,459 41.8% 1,396 15,448 D+7.3
Piscataquis 3,745 40.5% 4,845 52.3% 666 9,256 R+11.9

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