Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Democratic primary)

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Maine's 2nd Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: March 15, 2024
Primary: June 11, 2024 General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in Maine
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Toss-up DDHQ and The Hill: Lean Democratic Inside Elections: Toss-up Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Democratic
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A Democratic Party primary took place on June 11, 2024, in Maine's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Jared Golden advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maine District 2.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies. As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 53.1%-46.9%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Donald Trump (R) would have defeated Joe Biden (D) 51.6%-45.5%.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
March 15, 2024	June 11, 2024	November 5, 2024

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Maine utilizes a semi-closed primary process, in which both registered party members and unaffiliated voters may participate. Unaffiliated voters may vote in one partisan primary of their choosing in each election.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Maine's 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)
• Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 2

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Jared Golden in round 1 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Jared Golden	100	23,183	0	Advanced (1)

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 23,183
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Candidate profiles

This section includes candidate profiles that may be created in one of two ways: either the candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey, or Ballotpedia staff may compile a profile based on campaign websites, advertisements, and public statements after identifying the candidate as noteworthy. For more on how we select candidates to include, click here.

Jared Golden

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: Yes

Political Office: Representative, Maine's 2nd Congressional District (Elected: 2018)

Biography:  Golden served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine. He worked as a staffer for Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Key Messages

The following key messages were curated by Ballotpedia staff. For more on how we identify key messages, click here.

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Golden’s messaging focused on his independence as a congressman. He called Biden a “president unfit to serve a second term” and said he was the only Democrat to vote against “trillions of dollars of President Biden’s spending.”

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Golden said he “made campaign finance reform and anti-corruption efforts a key part of his agenda in Congress.” He said he “believes that we won’t be able to make progress on the serious issues facing the country unless we first work to get big money out of politics and clean up government corruption.”

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Golden’s campaigning highlighted expanding healthcare coverage. He said in Congress, he “prioritized lowering prescription drug prices” and”supported numerous bills to expand Medicare coverage, including dental, hearing, and vision care.”

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Show sources

Sources: Jared Golden 2024 campaign website, "Priorities," accessed August 4, 2024; Jared Golden U.S. House official website, "Congressman Jared Golden gets to work," January 8, 2019

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Maine District 2 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Maine

Election information in Maine: June 11, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: June 11, 2024
• By mail: Received by May 21, 2024
• Online: May 21, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: June 6, 2024
• By mail: Received by June 6, 2024
• Online: June 6, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: June 11, 2024
• By mail: Received by June 11, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

May 12, 2024 to June 6, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

6:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Jared Golden	Democratic Party	$7,943,838	$7,851,799	$126,730	As of December 31, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maine.

Maine U.S. House primary competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	2	2	0	6	4	0	2	50.0%	0	0.0%
2022	2	2	0	5	4	0	1	25.0%	0	0.0%
2020	2	2	0	6	4	0	1	25.0%	0	0.0%
2018	2	2	0	6	4	1	0	25.0%	0	0.0%
2016	2	2	0	5	4	0	1	25.0%	0	0.0%
2014	2	2	1	6	4	1	1	50.0%	0	0.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Maine in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 24, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Six candidates ran for Maine’s two U.S. House districts, including two Democrats and four Republicans. That’s 3.0 candidates per district, higher than the 2.5 candidates that ran in 2022 but the same as the 3.0 candidates who ran in 2020.

Both incumbents—Chellie Pingree (D-1st) and Jared Golden (D-2nd)—ran for re-election. The last time a U.S. House district in Maine was left open was in 2014 when Rep. Mike Michaud (D) ran for governor rather than for re-election in the 2nd District.

Three candidates—one Democrat and two Republicans—ran in the 1st Congressional District and the 2nd Congressional District, respectively.

Two primaries–both Republican—were contested in 2024, tying with 2014 for the most this decade.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+6. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 6 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Maine's 2nd the 188th most Republican district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Maine's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
45.5%	51.6%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
45.2	50.0	D+4.8

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Maine, 2020

Maine presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 11 Democratic wins
• 20 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of Maine state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Maine's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Maine
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	2	2
Republican	1	0	1
Independent	1	0	1
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	2	4

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Maine's top three state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Maine, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Janet T. Mills
Secretary of State	Shenna Bellows
Attorney General	Aaron Frey

State legislature

Maine State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	22
	Republican Party	13
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		35

Maine House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	80
	Republican Party	68
	Independent	1
	Independent for Maine Party	1
	Libertarian Party	0
	Other	0
	Vacancies	1
Total		151

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Maine Party Control: 1992-2024
Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  Two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	R	R	I	I	I	I	I	I	I	I	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	S	S	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Maine in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Maine, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Maine	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	1,000	N/A	3/15/2024	Source
Maine	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	2,000	N/A	6/3/2024	Source

See also

• Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)
• Maine's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in Maine, 2024 (June 11 Democratic primaries)
• United States House elections in Maine, 2024 (June 11 Republican primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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Maine's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Susan Collins (R)

Angus King (I)

Representatives

District 1

Chellie Pingree (D)

District 2

Jared Golden (D)

Democratic Party (2)

Republican Party (1)

Independent (1)

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