- Lead
- 63
- Total
- 5,126
- vs nation
- D+0.2
Maine 20th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 41
- Total
- 5,121
- vs nation
- R+5.3
- Lead
- 412
- Total
- 4,987
- vs nation
- R+10.4
- Lead
- 275
- Total
- 4,808
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 408
- Total
- 5,017
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 171
- Total
- 5,111
- vs nation
- D+5.8
- Lead
- 47
- Total
- 4,534
- vs nation
- R+1.6
- Lead
- 937
- Total
- 4,417
- vs nation
- D+12.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 9,3802024 5-year
- Population density
- 625 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,4132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 74, ME · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 20th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.7%
1,838 votes · D+35.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 56.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
75.1%
1,675 votes · R+50.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 73.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
2,665votes
53.1% of the vote · D+8.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 2,593 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,537votes
49.5% of the vote · R+1.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 2,508 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+29.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +14.2 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+50.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.7 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +34.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 48.7%2,523 | 51.3%2,659 | 5,182 |
| 2020 | D | 51.4%2,634 | 48.6%2,491 | 5,125 |
Maine House District 20 is among the state's most closely contested, with the 2024 presidential vote splitting at R+1.2 — a margin narrow enough that local candidate quality and turnout operations can determine the outcome independently of national trends.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 53.9 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 1.2 points.
A population of 9,380, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,413 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 74 and State House District 75.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Maine 20th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.