Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024

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Maine's 1st 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: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
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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. As a result of the election, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, winning 220 seats to Democrats' 215. 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%.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
		Chellie Pingree	58.7	249,798	0	Won (1)
		Ronald C. Russell	36.4	154,849	0	1
		Ethan Alcorn	4.9	20,883	0	1

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 425,530
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Chellie Pingree	100	46,307	0	Advanced (1)

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 46,307
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
		Ronald C. Russell	56.8	16,055	0	Advanced (1)
		Andrew Piantidosi	43.2	12,220	0	1

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 28,275
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Green primary election

Green Primary for U.S. House Maine District 1

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
	Submit photo	Nicholas Vigue (Write-in)	100	228	0	1

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 228
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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

Election information in Maine: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Received by Oct. 15, 2024
• Online: Oct. 15, 2024

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

Yes

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

• In-person: Oct. 31, 2024
• By mail: Received by Oct. 31, 2024
• Online: Oct. 31, 2024

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

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Received by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 6, 2024 to Oct. 31, 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)

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
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." ** 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. *** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

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.
• 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.

Race ratings: Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
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
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.

• 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 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.

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
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. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	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
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

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.

2022

See also: Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
		Chellie Pingree	62.9	219,753	0	Won (1)
		Ed Thelander	37.0	129,263	0	1
	Submit photo	Alan MacDonald (Write-in)	0.0	0	0	1
		Undeclared Write-insUndeclared write-in candidates may advance past the first round in some ranked-choice elections. If the official source reports write-in votes by candidate name, Ballotpedia displays them alongside the ballot-qualified candidates. However, if write-in votes are reported without a name, they will instead be included in the total write-in votes figure in Round 1. Please consult the official elections source for more details about unnamed write-in candidate vote totals past Round 1.	0.0	160	0

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 349,176
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Chellie Pingree	100	43,007	0	Advanced (1)

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 43,007
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Ed Thelander	100	22,346	0	Advanced (1)

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 22,346
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

2020

See also: Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
		Chellie Pingree	62.2	271,004	0	Won (1)
		Jay Allen	37.8	165,008	0	1
	Submit photo	Nancy Farrand (Write-in)	0.0	0	0	1
	Submit photo	Ian Arthur Leavitt (Write-in)	0.0	0	0	1
		Undeclared Write-insUndeclared write-in candidates may advance past the first round in some ranked-choice elections. If the official source reports write-in votes by candidate name, Ballotpedia displays them alongside the ballot-qualified candidates. However, if write-in votes are reported without a name, they will instead be included in the total write-in votes figure in Round 1. Please consult the official elections source for more details about unnamed write-in candidate vote totals past Round 1.	0.0	15	0

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 436,027
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Chellie Pingree	100	102,773	0	Advanced (1)

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 102,773
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
✔		Jay Allen	100	31,124	0	Advanced (1)

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 31,124
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

2018

See also: Maine's 1st Congressional District election, 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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 40,679
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Eric Stanton (R)

See also

Maine	2024 primaries	2024 U.S. Congress elections
Maine congressional delegation Voting in Maine Maine elections: 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018	Democratic primary battlegrounds Republican primary battlegrounds U.S. Senate Democratic primaries U.S. Senate Republican primaries U.S. House Democratic primaries U.S. House Republican primaries	U.S. Congress elections U.S. Senate elections U.S. House elections Special elections Ballot access

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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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