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2024 presidential election in Maine

Kamala Harris (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Maine in 2024, 52.4% to 45.5%, a margin of 6.9 points and 57,675 votes.

Maine voted 8.4 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+1.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2020, when Joe Biden won.

Republicans led in 9 of the 16 counties and Democrats in 7. The largest, Cumberland, cast 194,190 votes and went to the Democrat by 35.8 points. The closest was Waldo, where 971 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
Kamala Harris won Democratic 435,652 52.4%
Donald Trump Republican 377,977 45.5%
All other candidates 17,746 2.1%
Total831,375

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 129,550 66.7% 60,121 31.0% 4,519 194,190 D+35.8
York 73,004 54.5% 58,346 43.6% 2,546 133,896 D+10.9
Penobscot 38,413 43.8% 47,562 54.2% 1,791 87,766 R+10.4
Kennebec 35,012 47.7% 36,685 49.9% 1,769 73,466 R+2.3
Androscoggin 27,352 46.1% 30,685 51.7% 1,279 59,316 R+5.6
Hancock 20,062 54.9% 15,592 42.7% 888 36,542 D+12.2
Aroostook 13,059 36.3% 22,304 62.1% 574 35,937 R+25.7
Oxford 14,947 42.9% 19,278 55.3% 640 34,865 R+12.4
Somerset 10,259 35.8% 17,873 62.3% 536 28,668 R+26.6
Knox 15,262 58.5% 10,289 39.4% 548 26,099 D+19.1
Waldo 12,817 50.6% 11,846 46.8% 667 25,330 D+3.8
Sagadahoc 14,155 57.4% 9,943 40.3% 553 24,651 D+17.1
Lincoln 13,272 54.9% 10,436 43.1% 486 24,194 D+11.7
Washington 6,846 37.6% 11,030 60.6% 314 18,190 R+23.0
Franklin 8,089 45.0% 9,484 52.8% 405 17,978 R+7.8
Piscataquis 3,553 34.5% 6,504 63.2% 229 10,286 R+28.7

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