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Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
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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 |
DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic |
Ballotpedia analysis |
U.S. Senate battlegrounds U.S. House battlegrounds Federal and state primary competitiveness Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024 |
See also |
U.S. Senate • 1st • 2nd Maine elections, 2024 U.S. Congress elections, 2024 U.S. Senate elections, 2024 U.S. House elections, 2024 |
All U.S. House districts, including the 1st Congressional District of Maine, held elections in 2024. The general election was November 5, 2024. The primary was June 11, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024. The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 119th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.
At the time of the election, Republicans held a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As a result of the election, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, winning 220 seats to Democrats' 215.[2] To read more about the 2024 U.S. House elections, click here.
In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 62.9%-37.0%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 60.0%-37.2%.[3]
For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:
- Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Democratic primary)
- Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)
Candidates and election results
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 1
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 425,530 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Elias Bassile (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 46,307 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Ronald C. Russell in round 1 .
Total votes: 28,275 |
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Green primary election
Green Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
Total votes: 228 |
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Candidate profiles
There were no candidate profiles created for this race. Candidate profiles would have appeared here as candidates completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maine
Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses
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No candidate in this race completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance
Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
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Chellie Pingree | Democratic Party | $670,959 | $659,556 | $415,678 | As of December 31, 2024 |
Andrew Piantidosi | Republican Party | $79,435 | $79,435 | $0 | As of November 8, 2024 |
Ronald C. Russell | Republican Party | $175,939 | $161,387 | $14,221 | As of December 31, 2024 |
Nicholas Vigue | Green Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
Ethan Alcorn | Independent | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
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." |
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[4]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[5][6][7]
Race ratings: Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 | |||||||||
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Race tracker | Race ratings | ||||||||
November 5, 2024 | October 29, 2024 | October 22, 2024 | October 15, 2024 | ||||||
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | |||||
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | |||||
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | |||||
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | |||||
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week. |
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 | ||||||
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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 |
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.
Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maine.
Maine U.S. House primary competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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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
Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+9. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 9 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Maine's 1st the 133rd most Democratic district nationally.[8]
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 1st based on 2024 district lines | ||||
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Joe Biden ![]() |
Donald Trump ![]() | |||
60.0% | 37.2% |
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.[9] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.
Inside Elections Baseline for 2024 | ||||
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Republican Baseline ![]() |
Difference | ||
57.9 | 38.3 | D+19.7 |
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 |
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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 | |||
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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 | |
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Governor | ![]() |
Secretary of State | ![]() |
Attorney General | ![]() |
State legislature
Maine State Senate
Party | As of February 2024 | |
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Democratic Party | 22 | |
Republican Party | 13 | |
Other | 0 | |
Vacancies | 0 | |
Total | 35 |
Maine House of Representatives
Party | As of February 2024 | |
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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 |
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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 |
District history
The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.
2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 1
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 349,176 |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 43,007 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Amede (D)
Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Ed Thelander in round 1 .
Total votes: 22,346 |
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2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 1
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 436,027 |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Chellie Pingree in round 1 .
Total votes: 102,773 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Jay Allen in round 1 .
Total votes: 31,124 |
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Maine District 1
Incumbent Chellie Pingree defeated Mark Holbrook and Martin Grohman in the general election for U.S. House Maine District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Chellie Pingree (D) | 58.8 | 201,195 |
![]() | Mark Holbrook (R) | 32.5 | 111,188 | |
![]() | Martin Grohman (Independent) | 8.7 | 29,670 |
Total votes: 342,053 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
Incumbent Chellie Pingree advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maine District 1 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Chellie Pingree | 100.0 | 74,376 |
Total votes: 74,376 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Maine District 1
Mark Holbrook advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Maine District 1 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mark Holbrook | 100.0 | 40,679 |
Total votes: 40,679 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Eric Stanton (R)
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
- ↑ These figures include the seat of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned on Nov. 13, 2024, after winning re-election.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023