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1876–2024
Aroostook County, Maine
Aroostook County·Maine

Aroostook County delivered a near-tie in 2024.

Maine's vast potato-country county has swung sharply rightward over a decade

18762024·38 elections
Aroostook County, Maine · Doug Kerr · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+26
in 2024
Archetype
Tossup
since the recent cycles
Population
67,058
2024 ACS
Most similar
Somerset County
ME · similarity 0.97
66 precincts · 35,653 votes cast
Trump · R+26
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−26.2%
12,90022,24635,653
2020R
−19.7%
13,95621,08036,210
2016R
−17.2%
13,38619,41935,097
2012D
+7.6%
17,77715,19633,860
2008D
+9.6%
19,34515,89835,994
2004D
+5.3%
19,56917,56437,733
2000D
+1.8%
17,19616,55535,143
1996D
+21.9%
18,02210,40034,792
1992D
+8.5%
15,68212,40938,585
1988R
−7.3%
14,85017,21332,246
1984R
−27.6%
12,34821,83734,338
1980R
−5.5%
14,49216,34333,846
1976R
−0.2%
15,48415,55032,051
1972R
−24.8%
11,47419,05130,547
1968D
+3.8%
15,04413,91929,236
1964D
+27.4%
17,5529,99427,549
1960R
−11.6%
14,79918,69833,497
1956R
−44.9%
6,08916,00122,090
1952R
−38.0%
7,56116,85124,476
1948R
−13.6%
7,1839,45916,740
1944R
−18.6%
8,01711,67819,717
1940R
−16.9%
9,87713,88823,804
1936R
−30.8%
7,70414,70822,736
1932R
−19.7%
9,40914,05423,631
1928R
−43.1%
5,77114,54520,357
1924R
−68.7%
1,5109,55411,707
1920R
−77.4%
1,40711,19112,648
1916R
−40.3%
2,4255,7708,293
1912D
+13.1%
1,9248987,813
1908R
−58.8%
1,1574,7836,167
1904R
−70.1%
7364,6815,627
1900R
−57.4%
1,0304,1925,511
1896R
−53.0%
1,3834,8166,472
1892R
−18.3%
1,9172,8935,340
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
31.9%
Other Christian
9.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.2%
Baptist
3.1%
Methodist
2.6%
Mainline Protestant
1.0%
Non-Christian
0.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 48.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Aroostook covers nearly as much land as Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, and its economy still turns on agriculture and timber. Once reliably competitive, it backed the 2024 Republican presidential nominee by 26 points.

The county's recent history is a story of close margins. The Democratic margin reached twenty-seven points in 1964; the Republican margin reached seventy-seven points in 1920. Most other elections have been decided by single-digit points.

Aroostook County's demographics — a population of 67,058, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $56,700 — situate the county close to national averages on several dimensions. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Somerset County and Fillmore County.