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2016 presidential election in Maine

Hillary Clinton (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Maine in 2016, 47.8% to 44.9%, a margin of 3.0 points and 22,142 votes.

Maine voted 0.9 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Democratic hold continued from 2012, when Barack Obama won.

Republicans led in 9 of the 16 counties and Democrats in 7. The largest, Cumberland, cast 171,818 votes and went to the Democrat by 26.3 points. The closest was Waldo, where 62 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
Hillary Clinton won Democratic 357,735 47.8%
Donald Trump Republican 335,593 44.9%
Gary Johnson Libertarian 38,105 5.1%
All other candidates 16,494 2.2%
Total747,927

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 102,981 59.9% 57,709 33.6% 11,128 171,818 D+26.3
York 55,844 48.9% 50,403 44.1% 8,027 114,274 D+4.8
Penobscot 32,838 40.8% 41,622 51.7% 6,080 80,540 R+10.9
Kennebec 29,302 44.3% 31,675 47.8% 5,231 66,208 R+3.6
Androscoggin 23,009 41.4% 28,227 50.8% 4,365 55,601 R+9.4
Aroostook 13,386 38.1% 19,419 55.3% 2,292 35,097 R+17.2
Hancock 16,117 50.2% 13,705 42.7% 2,308 32,130 D+7.5
Oxford 12,172 39.0% 16,210 52.0% 2,819 31,201 R+12.9
Somerset 9,092 34.9% 15,001 57.6% 1,971 26,064 R+22.7
Knox 12,443 53.8% 9,148 39.5% 1,556 23,147 D+14.2
Waldo 10,440 46.0% 10,378 45.7% 1,889 22,707 D+0.3
Sagadahoc 10,664 49.3% 9,304 43.0% 1,648 21,616 D+6.3
Lincoln 10,241 47.6% 9,727 45.2% 1,535 21,503 D+2.4
Franklin 7,016 42.6% 7,918 48.0% 1,554 16,488 R+5.5
Washington 6,075 37.1% 9,093 55.6% 1,197 16,365 R+18.4
Piscataquis 3,098 33.7% 5,406 58.9% 678 9,182 R+25.1

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