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2020 presidential election in Maine

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Maine in 2020, 53.1% to 44.0%, a margin of 9.1 points and 74,335 votes.

Maine voted 4.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Democrats led in 8 of the 16 counties and Republicans in 8. The largest, Cumberland, cast 195,332 votes and went to the Democrat by 36.0 points. The closest was Kennebec, where 474 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
Joe Biden won Democratic 435,072 53.1%
Donald Trump Republican 360,737 44.0%
All other candidates 23,652 2.9%
Total819,461

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 130,129 66.6% 59,720 30.6% 5,483 195,332 D+36.0
York 71,953 55.1% 54,945 42.1% 3,697 130,595 D+13.0
Penobscot 38,052 44.5% 44,794 52.3% 2,746 85,592 R+7.9
Kennebec 35,280 48.8% 34,806 48.1% 2,256 72,342 D+0.7
Androscoggin 27,910 47.2% 29,334 49.6% 1,846 59,090 R+2.4
Aroostook 14,165 39.2% 21,286 58.9% 681 36,132 R+19.7
Hancock 19,758 54.7% 15,346 42.5% 990 36,094 D+12.2
Oxford 15,118 44.2% 18,047 52.7% 1,057 34,222 R+8.6
Somerset 10,307 37.2% 16,684 60.2% 734 27,725 R+23.0
Knox 15,266 58.9% 10,004 38.6% 642 25,912 D+20.3
Waldo 12,484 51.0% 11,228 45.8% 784 24,496 D+5.1
Sagadahoc 13,673 56.5% 9,778 40.4% 762 24,213 D+16.1
Lincoln 12,819 54.0% 10,281 43.3% 660 23,760 D+10.7
Franklin 7,952 46.8% 8,465 49.9% 562 16,979 R+3.0
Washington 6,650 39.3% 9,891 58.4% 386 16,927 R+19.1
Piscataquis 3,555 35.7% 6,157 61.8% 246 9,958 R+26.1

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