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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maine were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's two U.S. House districts. The primary was June 11, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Maine -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Chellie Pingree (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Ronald C. Russell (Republican Party)
- Ethan Alcorn (Independent)
Did not make the ballot:
- Elias Bassile (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Chellie Pingree (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Minor Party primary candidates
Green Party
- Nicholas Vigue (Write-in)
District 2
General election candidates
- Jared Golden (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Austin Theriault (Republican Party)
- Diana Merenda (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Kevin Ball (No Party Affiliation)
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- Jared Golden (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maine
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.[1]
- 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.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
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 |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
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.
| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Maine, 2024 | |||
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| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Maine's 1st | Chellie Pingree |  Democratic |
D+9 |
| Maine's 2nd | Jared Golden | Democratic |
R+6 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Maine[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Maine's 1st | 60.0% | 37.2% | ||
| Maine's 2nd | 45.5% | 51.6% | ||
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
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| Secretary of State | Shenna Bellows
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| Attorney General | Aaron Frey
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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 |
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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 |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
