Political party strength in Maine
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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Maine:
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
History
[edit]The Republican Party controlled the governorship from the American Civil War to 1932, with the Democratic Party only winning four times. The Greenback Party was active in Maine and its gubernatorial candidates had their vote totals rise from 520 votes in the 1876 election to 41,371 votes in the 1878 election. The Greenbacks aided in the election of Democratic gubernatorial nominees Alonzo Garcelon and Harris M. Plaisted. The Democratic Party did not control the state legislature between 1847 and 1911.[1]
The Maine Republican Party supported Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 Republican presidential primaries against President William Howard Taft. The Maine Progressive Party was founded by Roosevelt supporters on July 31, 1912, at a convention in Portland, Maine. The Republicans were weakened after losing members including Charles H. Hitchborn, who was the treasurer of the party, although Warren C. Philbrook, the chair of the party, remained. Woodrow Wilson won Maine in the presidential election while Roosevelt received more votes than Taft.[1]
On April 5, 1916, the Progressives held their convention and nominated Edwin Lawrence for governor under the coniditon that they would follow the path of the national party. The national Progressive Party attempted to nominate Roosevelt for president against, but he declined and the party returned to the Republicans. The Maine Progressives withdrew their candidates and supported the Republicans. B. F. Lawrence, who ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives, was the only Progressive elected in 1916, but later joined the Republicans.[1]
Robert M. La Follette, who ran as the Progressive presidential nominee in the 1924 election, told Gilbert E. Roe, who was running his campaign in the eastern United States, that the conditions for his campaigns were good in the eastern United States except for in Maine and Vermont. Republican nominee Calvin Coolidge received over 70% of the popular vote while La Follette only received six percent.[1]
Table
[edit]| Year | Governor | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral votes | ||||
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| State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House District 1 | U.S. House District 2 | |||
| 1820 | William King (DR)[a] | DR majority | DR majority | John Holmes (DR) | John Chandler (DR) | Joseph Dane (F)[b] | James Monroe/ Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) 
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| 1821 | DR majority | DR majority | ||||||
| William D. Williamson (DR)[c][d] | 5DR, 2F | |||||||
| Benjamin Ames (DR)[e][f] | ||||||||
| 1822 | Daniel Rose (DR)[c] | DR majority | DR majority | 6DR, 1F | ||||
| Albion Parris (DR) | ||||||||
| 1823 | DR majority | DR majority | ||||||
| 1824 | DR majority | NR majority | John Quincy Adams/ John C. Calhoun (DR)
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| 1825 | DR majority | DR majority | John Holmes (NR) | John Chandler (J) | 6NR, 1J | |||
| 1826 | DR majority | DR majority | ||||||
| 1827 | Enoch Lincoln (DR)[g] | DR majority | DR majority | Albion Parris (J)[f] | 4NR, 3J | |||
| 1828 | DR majority | DR majority | John Quincy Adams/ Richard Rush (DR) 
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| 1829 | DR majority | NR majority | John Holmes (NR) | Peleg Sprague (NR) | 4J, 3NR | |||
| Nathan Cutler (D)[h] | ||||||||
| 1830 | Joshua Hall (D)[e] | 12NR, 8DR | NR majority | |||||
| Jonathan G. Hunton (NR) | ||||||||
| 1831 | Samuel E. Smith (D) | 11DR, 9DR | 86DR, 62NR, 1? | 6J, 1NR | ||||
| 1832 | 21DR, 4NR | 100DR, 58NR, 24?, 2 vac. | Andrew Jackson/ Martin Van Buren (D)
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| 1833 | 15DR, 10NR | 97DR, 59NR, 30? | Ether Shepley (J)[f] | 7J, 1NR | ||||
| 1834 | Robert P. Dunlap (D) | 21DR, 3NR, 1A-M | 79DR, 39NR, 63?[i] | |||||
| 1835 | 18D, 7NR | 94D, 66NR, 26? | John Ruggles (J) | 6J, 2NR | ||||
| 1836 | 22D, 3NR | 51D, 41NR, 94?[j] | Judah Dana (J) | Martin Van Buren/ Richard Mentor Johnson (D)
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| 1837 | 21D, 4W | 108D, 54W, 24? | Reuel Williams (D)[f] | John Ruggles (D) | 6D, 2W | |||
| 1838 | Edward Kent (W)[k] | 14D, 11W | 98W, 85D, 5? | 5D, 3W | ||||
| 1839 | John Fairfield (D)[f] | 15D, 10W | 107D, 73W, 9?. 1 vac. | 6D, 2W | ||||
| 1840 | 17D, 8W | 123D, 63W, 5? | William Henry Harrison/ John Tyler (W)
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| 1841 | Richard H. Vose (W)[c] | 18W, 7D | 94W, 66D, 30?[l] | George Evans (W) | 4D, 4W | |||
| Edward Kent (W) | ||||||||
| 1842 | John Fairfield (D)[m] | 27D, 4W | 131D, 55W, 18? | |||||
| 1843 | 30D, 1W | 55D, 18W, 78?[n] | 5D, 2W | |||||
| Edward Kavanagh (D)[c][f] | vacant | |||||||
| 1844 | David Dunn (D)[e][f] | 28D, 3W | 89D, 42W, 2Lty, 18? | John Fairfield (D)[g] | James K. Polk/ George M. Dallas (D)
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| John W. Dana (D)[c] | ||||||||
| Hugh J. Anderson (D) | ||||||||
| 1845 | 85D, 49W, 17? | 6D, 1W | ||||||
| 1846 | 27D, 4W | 85D, 66W | ||||||
| 1847 | 78D, 66W, 6Lty, 1I | James W. Bradbury (D) | ||||||
| John W. Dana (D) | ||||||||
| 1848 | 102D, 49W | Wyman B. S. Moor (D) | Lewis Cass/ William Orlando Butler (D)
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| Hannibal Hamlin (D)[o] | ||||||||
| 1849 | 20D, 11W | 85D, 66W | 5D, 2W | |||||
| 1850 | 88D, 63R | |||||||
| John Hubbard (D) | ||||||||
| 1851 | 26D, 4W, 1FS[p] | 93D, 50W, 8FS[p] | ||||||
| 1852 | 4D, 3W | Franklin Pierce/ William R. King (D)
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| 1853 | William G. Crosby (W) | 22W, 9D | 84D, 62W, 4FS, 1? | vacant | 3D, 3W | |||
| 1854 | 17W, 14D | 76D, 66W, 9FS | William P. Fessenden (W) | |||||
| 1855 | Anson Morrill (R) | 16W, 10D, 5FS | 83D, 44W, 23FS, 1?[q] | 3O, 2R, 1D | ||||
| 1856 | Samuel Wells (D) | 20D, 9W, 2R | 68D, 61R, 22W[r] | John C. Frémont/ William L. Dayton (R)
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| 1857 | Hannibal Hamlin (R)[m] | 30R, 1D | 125R, 26D[s] | Amos Nourse (R) | William P. Fessenden (R)[f] | 6R | ||
| Joseph H. Williams (R)[c] | Hannibal Hamlin (R)[t] | |||||||
| 1858 | Lot M. Morrill (R) | 117R, 34D[u] | ||||||
| 1859 | 103R, 48D | |||||||
| 1860 | 119R, 32D | Abraham Lincoln/ Hannibal Hamlin (R)
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| 1861 | Israel Washburn Jr. (R) | 31R | 128R, 23D | Lot M. Morrill (R) | ||||
| 1862 | 26R, 5D | 123R, 28D | ||||||
| 1863 | Abner Coburn (R) | 25R, 6D | 107R, 44D | 4R, 1D | ||||
| 1864 | Samuel Cony (R) | 30R, 1D | 120R, 31D | Abraham Lincoln/ Andrew Johnson (NU)
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| Nathan A. Farwell (R) | ||||||||
| 1865 | 28R, 3D | 129R, 22D | William P. Fessenden (R)[g] | 5R | ||||
| 1866 | 31R | 136R, 15D | ||||||
| 1867 | Joshua Chamberlain (R) | 138R, 13D | ||||||
| 1868 | 28R, 3D | 105R, 46D | Ulysses S. Grant/ Schuyler Colfax (R)
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| 1869 | 29R, 2D | 123R, 28D | Hannibal Hamlin (R) | |||||
| 1870 | 28R, 3D | 117R, 34D | Lot M. Morrill (R) | |||||
| 1871 | Sidney Perham (R) | 113R, 38D | ||||||
| 1872 | 112R, 39D | Ulysses S. Grant/ Henry Wilson (R)
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| 1873 | 30R, 1LR | 128R, 19D, 2LR, 2I | ||||||
| 1874 | Nelson Dingley Jr. (R) | 103R, 41D, 7I | ||||||
| 1875 | 28R, 3D | 89R, 55D, 7I | ||||||
| 1876 | Seldon Connor (R) | 20R, 11D | 85R, 63D, 3I | Rutherford B. Hayes/ William A. Wheeler (R)
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| 1877 | 29R, 2D | 120R, 30D, 1I | James G. Blaine (R) | |||||
| 1878 | 28R, 3D | 99R, 47D, 3I, 2GB | ||||||
| 1879 | Alonzo Garcelon (D) | 20R, 10GB, 1D | 65R, 57GB, 27D, 2I[v] | 3R, 2GB | ||||
| 1880 | Daniel F. Davis (R) | 19R, 11GB, 1D | 90R, 50GB, 11D | James A. Garfield/ Chester A. Arthur (R)
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| 1881 | Harris M. Plaisted (D) | 23R, 6GB, 2D | 84R, 40GB, 27D | Eugene Hale (R) | William P. Frye (R)[g] | |||
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| 1883 | Frederick Robie (R) | 28R, 3D | 108R, 43D | 4R[b] | ||||
| 1884 | James G. Blaine/ John A. Logan (R)
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| 1885 | 31R | 115R, 34D, 2GB | 4R | |||||
| 1886 | ||||||||
| 1887 | Joseph R. Bodwell (R)[g] | 27R, 4D | 122R, 29D | |||||
| Sebastian Streeter Marble (R)[c] | ||||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison/ Levi P. Morton (R)
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| 1889 | Edwin C. Burleigh (R) | 31R | 125R, 26D | |||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1891 | 27R, 4D | 110R, 41D | ||||||
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison/ Whitelaw Reid (R)
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| 1893 | Henry B. Cleaves (R) | 30R, 1D | 107R, 44D | |||||
| 1894 | ||||||||
| 1895 | 31R | 146R, 5D | ||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley/ Garret Hobart (R)
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| 1897 | Llewellyn Powers (R) | 145R, 6D | ||||||
| 1898 | ||||||||
| 1899 | 126R, 25D | |||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley/ Theodore Roosevelt (R)
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| 1901 | John Fremont Hill (R) | 30R, 1D | 132R, 19D | |||||
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| 1903 | 128R, 23D | |||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt/ Charles W. Fairbanks
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| 1905 | William T. Cobb (R) | 27R, 4D | 126R, 25D | |||||
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| 1907 | 23R, 8D | 88R, 63D | ||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft/ James S. Sherman (R)
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| 1909 | Bert M. Fernald (R) | 100R, 51D | ||||||
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| 1911 | Frederick W. Plaisted (D) | 22D, 9R | 86D, 65R | Charles F. Johnson (D) | 2R, 2D | |||
| Obadiah Gardner (D) | ||||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson/ Thomas R. Marshall (D)
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| 1913 | William T. Haines (R) | 21R, 10D | 79R, 72D | Edwin C. Burleigh (R)[g] | 3R, 1D | |||
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| 1915 | Oakley C. Curtis (D) | 17R, 14D | 78D, 69R, 4Prog | |||||
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes/ Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
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| Bert M. Fernald (R) | ||||||||
| 1917 | Carl Milliken (R) | 28R, 3D | 105R, 46D | Frederick Hale (R) | 4R | |||
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| 1919 | 29R, 2D | 110R, 41D | ||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding/ Calvin Coolidge (R)
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| 1921 | Frederic Hale Parkhurst (R)[g] | 31R | 135R, 16D | |||||
| Percival P. Baxter (R)[w] | ||||||||
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| 1923 | 28R, 3D | 116R, 35D | ||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge/ Charles G. Dawes (R)
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| 1925 | Owen Brewster (R) | 30R, 1D | 122R, 29D | |||||
| 1926 | ||||||||
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| Arthur R. Gould (R) | ||||||||
| 1927 | 129R, 22D | |||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)
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| 1929 | William Tudor Gardiner (R) | 31R | 135R, 16D | |||||
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| 1931 | 120R, 31D | Wallace H. White (R) | ||||||
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)
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| 1933 | Louis J. Brann (D) | 26R, 7D | 93R, 58D | 2D, 1R | ||||
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| 1935 | 22R, 11D | 96R, 55D | ||||||
| 1936 | Alf Landon/ Frank Knox (R)
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| 1937 | Lewis O. Barrows (R) | 29R, 4D | 124R, 27D | 3R | ||||
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| 1939 | 31R, 2D | |||||||
| 1940 | Wendell Willkie/ Charles L. McNary (R)
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| 1941 | Sumner Sewall (R) | 128R, 23D | Owen Brewster (R)[f] | |||||
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| 1943 | 32R, 1D | 136R, 15D | ||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey/ John W. Bricker (R)
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| 1945 | Horace Hildreth (R) | 31R, 2D | ||||||
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| 1947 | 30R, 3D | 126R, 25D | ||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey/ Earl Warren (R)
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| 1949 | Frederick G. Payne (R) | 28R, 5D | Margaret Chase Smith (R) | |||||
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| 1951 | 31R, 2D | 126R, 24D, 1I | ||||||
| 1952 | Burton M. Cross (R) | Dwight D. Eisenhower/ Richard Nixon (R)
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| 1953 | Nathaniel M. Haskell (R) | 127R, 24D | Frederick G. Payne (R) | |||||
| 1954 | Burton M. Cross (R) | |||||||
| 1955 | Edmund Muskie (D) | 27R, 6D | 119R, 32D | |||||
| 1956 | ||||||||
| 1957 | 25R, 8D | 100R, 51D | 2R, 1D | |||||
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| 1959 | Clinton Clauson (D) | 21R, 12D | 94R, 57D | Edmund Muskie (D) | 2D, 1R | |||
| 1960 | John H. Reed (R) | Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)
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| 1961 | 30R, 3D | 113R, 38D | 3R | |||||
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| 1963 | 29R, 5D | 110R, 41D | Stanley R. Tupper (R) | Clifford McIntire (R) | ||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D)
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| 1965 | 29D, 5R | 80D, 71R | William Hathaway (D) | |||||
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| 1967 | Kenneth M. Curtis (D) | 24R, 10D | 95R, 56D | Peter Kyros (D) | ||||
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey/ Edmund Muskie (D)
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| 1969 | 18R, 14D | 85R, 66D | ||||||
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| 1971 | 80R, 71D | |||||||
| 1972 | Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R)
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| 1973 | 22R, 11D | 79R, 72D | William Hathaway (D) | William Cohen (R) | ||||
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| 1975 | James B. Longley (I) | 19R, 14D | 91D, 59R, 1I | David F. Emery (R) | ||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole (R)
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| 1977 | 21R, 12D | 89D, 62R | ||||||
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| 1979 | Joseph E. Brennan (D) | 19R, 13D, 1I | 77D, 73R, 1ID | William Cohen (R) | Olympia Snowe (R) | |||
| 1980 | George J. Mitchell (D) | Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R)
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| 1981 | 17R, 16D | 84D, 67R | ||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
| 1983 | 23D, 10R | 92D, 59R | Jock McKernan (R) | |||||
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| 1985 | 24D, 11R | 83D, 68R | ||||||
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| 1987 | Jock McKernan (R) | 20D, 15R | 86D, 65R | Joseph E. Brennan (D) | ||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1989 | 97D, 54R | |||||||
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| 1991 | 21D, 14R | Thomas Andrews (D) | ||||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton/ Al Gore (D)
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| 1993 | 20D, 15R | 90D, 61R | ||||||
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| 1995 | Angus King (I) | 18R, 16D, 1I | 77D, 74R | Olympia Snowe (R) | Jim Longley (R) | John Baldacci (D) | ||
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| 1997 | 19D, 15R, 1I | 81D, 69R, 1I | Susan Collins (R) | Tom Allen (D) | ||||
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| 1999 | 20D, 14R, 1I | 79D, 71R, 1I | ||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore/ Joe Lieberman (D)
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| 2001 | 17R, 17D, 1I[x] | 88D, 62R, 1I | ||||||
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| 2003 | John Baldacci (D) | 18D, 17R | 80D, 67R, 3I, 1G | Mike Michaud (D) | ||||
| 2004 | John Kerry/ John Edwards (D)
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| 2005 | 76D, 73R, 1I, 1G | |||||||
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| 2007 | 90D, 59R, 2I | |||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama/ Joe Biden (D)
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| 2009 | 20D, 15R | 95D, 55R, 1I | Chellie Pingree (D) | |||||
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| 2011 | Paul LePage (R) | 20R, 14D, 1I | 78R, 72D, 1I | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2013 | 19D, 15R, 1I | 89D, 58R, 4I | Angus King (I)[y] | |||||
| 2014 | ||||||||
| 2015 | 20R, 15D | 78D, 68R, 5I | Bruce Poliquin (R) | |||||
| 2016 | 78D, 69R, 4I | 3 – Hillary Clinton/ Tim Kaine (D) 1 – Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R) [z]
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| 2017 | 18R, 17D | 77D, 73R, 1I | ||||||
| 2018 | 74D, 70R, 6I, 1G | |||||||
| 2019 | Janet Mills (D) | 21D, 14R | 89D, 56R, 6I | Jared Golden (D) | ||||
| 2020 | 3 – Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris (D) 1 – Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R) [z]
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| 2021 | 22D, 13R | 80D, 67R, 4I | ||||||
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| 2023 | 81D, 68R, 2I | |||||||
| 2024 | 3 – Kamala Harris/ Tim Walz (D) 1 – Donald Trump/ J.D. Vance (R) [z]
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| 2025 | 20D, 15R | 76D, 73R, 2I | ||||||
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- ^ Resigned to take appointment as a minister to negotiate a treaty with Spain.
- ^ a b Elected at-large on a general ticket.
- ^ a b c d e f g As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term.
- ^ Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ a b c As speaker of the state House, filled unexpired term.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Resigned.
- ^ a b c d e f g Died in office.
- ^ As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term until his Senate term expired.
- ^ A Democrat, Nathan Clifford, was elected as Speaker.
- ^ A Democrat, Hannibal Hamlin, was elected as Speaker.
- ^ Won a close election, but Democrats challenged the election. He was finally declared the winner by the state Supreme Court and sworn in on January 19, 1838.
- ^ A Whig, Josiah S. Little, was elected as Speaker.
- ^ a b Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
- ^ A Democrat, David Dunn, was elected as Speaker.
- ^ Resigned to take an elected seat as Governor.
- ^ a b Due to a constitutional change in when elected officials took office, legislators elected in 1850 had a two-year term.
- ^ A coalition of Whigs, Free Soilers, and Morrill Democrats elected Noah Smith Jr., a Whig, as Speaker, and organized the chamber.
- ^ A coalition of Republicans and Whigs elected Sidney Perham, a Republican, as Speaker, and organized the chamber.
- ^ A Democrat, Josiah S. Little, was elected as a minority-party Speaker.
- ^ Resigned to become Vice President of the United States.
- ^ A Democrat, Charles A. Spofford, was elected as a minority-party Speaker.
- ^ A coalition of Democrats, Greenbacks, and Independents supported Melvin P. Frank, a Democrat, as Speaker and organized the House.[2]
- ^ As president of the senate, filled unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
- ^ A power-sharing agreement was negotiated between the Democrats and Republicans, with a Democrat, Mike Michaud, becoming Senate President for one year in 2001, and a Republican, Rick Bennett, becoming Senate President for one year in 2002.
- ^ As Senator, King has consistently caucused with the Senate Democratic Caucus.
- ^ a b c The Democratic ticket received Maine's two at-large votes and one vote in the First Congressional District while the Republican ticket received one vote in the Second District.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d King, Elizabeth (1933). The Progressive Movement of 1912 and Third Party Movement of 1924 in Maine. University of Maine Press.
- ^ Representatives, Maine Legislature House of (1879). Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Maine. p. 9.
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