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Last updated: Oct. 1, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Maine within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include one for the U.S. Senate, two for U.S. House, all 35 state senate seats, and all 151 state House seats. Additionally, there are five statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Maine. This page also includes more information about election day in Maine, including:
- How to vote in Maine
- The elected offices that Maine voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Maine that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Maine will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Maine's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Maine
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Maine
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Maine
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maine
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Maine elections, 2024
At the federal level, Maine voters will elect one U.S. Senator and two U.S. Representatives. To learn more about the U.S. Senate election in Maine, click here. To learn more about the U.S. House elections in Maine, click here.
No state executive offices are up for election.
All 186 seats in the Legislature are up for election, including all 35 seats in the House and all 151 seats in the Senate. There are 33 open seats in the House and six open seats in the Senate.
Maine is not holding school board elections this year.
At the municipal level, the city of Augusta, Maine, is holding elections for mayor and city council. Click here to read more about those elections.
Below is a list of Maine elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Maine elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | ✓ | Click here |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | — | — |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | ✓ | Click here |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Sept. 25, 2024, Ballotpedia identified the congressional election for Maine's 2nd U.S. House District as a battleground race. Those are the race that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (D) and Austin Theriault (R) are running in the general election. The district is a target for both the DCCC and the NRCC this year. As of Setp. 18, 2024, four major election forecasters differed in their ratings for the general election, with two rating it a toss-up, one rating it Tilt Democratic, and one rating it Lean Democratic.[1][2]
Ballot measures
There are five statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Maine.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question 1 | Limit the amount of campaign contributions to $5,000 from individuals and entities to political action committees that make independent expenditures |
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600,191 (75%) |
201,034 (25%) |
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| Question 2 | Authorize $25 million in general obligation bonds for research, development, and commercialization of for Maine-based public and private institutions in support of technological innovation |
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433,394 (54%) |
365,100 (46%) |
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| Question 3 | Authorize $10 million in general obligation bonds for the restoration of local community buildings |
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410,979 (51%) |
391,176 (49%) |
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| Question 4 | Authorize $30 million in general obligation bonds for the development and maintenance of outdoor trails |
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440,560 (55%) |
354,626 (45%) |
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| Question 5 | Replace the Maine state flag with a flag consisting of a pine tree and the North Star on a buff background |
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358,912 (44%) |
451,366 (56%) |
In Maine, a total of 249 ballot measures appeared on statewide ballots between 1985 and 2022. One hundred eighty-six ballot measures were approved, and 63 ballot measures were defeated.
State analysis
Partisan balance
A total of two Democrats, one Republican, and one independent represent Maine in Congress–Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) in the Senate and Chellie Pingree (D) and Jared Golden (D) in the House. While both U.S. House seats are up for election, King is the only Senator running for re-election this year since Collins' term does not end until Jan. 2027. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Democrats have a 22-13 majority the state Senate and a 79-67 majority in the state House, with one to independents and three vacancies. The last time Republicans controlled either chamber of the Legislature was in 2018, when Republicans controlled the Senate.
Because the governor is a Democrat, Maine is one of 17 states with a Democratic trifecta. It has held this status since 2019 when Gov. Janet Mills (D) and the Democratic majority assumed office in the Senate. Maine's attorney general and secretary of state are also Democrats. This makes Maine one of 20 states with a Democratic triplex.
Past presidential election results in Maine
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 53.0% of Mainers lived in one of the state's seven Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 36.6% lived in one of seven Trending Republican counties. Overall, Maine was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Maine following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Maine county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 7 | 53.0% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 7 | 36.6% | |||||
| Battleground Democratic | 1 | 9.1% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 1 | 1.2% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 8 | 62.1% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 8 | 37.9% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Maine had a Competitiveness Index of 38, ranking it 16 of the 44 states that held elections.
- 39 (21.0%) of the 186 seats up for election were open
- 19 (5.1%) of the possible 372 legislative primaries were contested.
- Seven incumbents out of the 146 (4.8%) running faced primary challengers.
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Maine, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 23.1% | 2.8% | 94.1% | 40.0 | 10 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 33.9% | 4.1% | 90.9% | 43.0 | 9 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 27.4% | 2.2% | 86.6% | 38.7 | 9 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 19.9% | 2.7% | 86.0% | 36.2 | 16 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 30.1% | 1.5% | 83.9% | 38.5 | 19 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 20.4% | 4.7% | 76.3% | 33.8 | 17 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 37.6% | 2.6% | 80.6% | 40.3 | 14 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 21.0% | 4.8% | 88.2% | 38.0 | 16 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Maine, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 21.9% | 4.2% | 86.1% | 37.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 17.1% | 6.9% | 97.1% | 40.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 21.0% | 4.8% | 88.2% | 38.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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