2024 United States presidential election in Maine

2024 United States presidential election in Maine

← 2020 November 5, 2024 2028 →
 
Nominee Kamala Harris Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state California Florida
Running mate Tim Walz JD Vance
Electoral vote 3 1
Popular vote 430,795 374,972
Percentage 52.11% 45.36%


President before election

Joe Biden
Democratic

Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

The 2024 United States presidential election in Maine took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Maine voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Maine has four electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[1]

Maine is a sparsely populated rural state in Northern New England. Unlike all other states except Nebraska, Maine awards two electoral votes based on the statewide vote, and one vote for each congressional district. The at-large votes are expected to be contested by both parties, but are favored to be carried by the Democratic presidential candidate, having last been won by a Republican in 1988. However, the two congressional districts are expected to be split between the Democratic and Republican candidates with ME-1 being a strongly blue district and ME-2 being a moderately red district, something that has occurred in 2016 and 2020.

Maine at large was potentially considered a secondary battleground during the 2024 election cycle. In 2016, Trump narrowly lost Maine at-large to Hillary Clinton by less than 3% and a margin of 22,142 votes. However, in 2020 Biden won the state by just over 9% and 74,302 votes, though Trump held Maine's 2nd congressional district. However, most polls and analysts accurately predicted Maine to remain in the Democratic camp at large in the November 2024 general election. Harris won Maine at-large by about 7%, worse than Biden but better than Hillary Clinton. As expected, Harris won Maine's 1st congressional district while Trump won Maine's 2nd congressional district. Trump also flipped Kennebec County, which he had won in 2016 but narrowly lost in 2020.[2][3]

This is the first time Maine's 2nd congressional district voted for the winner of the national popular vote since 2012 and the first time Maine at-large and Maine's 1st congressional district backed the candidate who didn't win the national popular vote since 2004.

  1. ^ Wang, Hansi; Jin, Connie; Levitt, Zach (April 26, 2021). "Here's How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats". NPR. Archived from the original on August 19, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Maine Election Results". bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  3. ^ "Maine Election Results". bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 13, 2024.

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