- Lead
- 920
- Total
- 4,725
- vs nation
- D+20.9
Maine 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 998
- Total
- 4,782
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 632
- Total
- 4,568
- vs nation
- D+11.7
- Lead
- 1,295
- Total
- 4,552
- vs nation
- D+24.6
- Lead
- 1,461
- Total
- 4,758
- vs nation
- D+23.4
- Lead
- 1,255
- Total
- 4,811
- vs nation
- D+28.5
- Lead
- 892
- Total
- 4,231
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 1,688
- Total
- 4,354
- vs nation
- D+30.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 9,4092024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,325 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,0002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, ME · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 22nd 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
77.4%
2,113 votes · D+54.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 68.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
65.3%
1,188 votes · R+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 63.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
3,061votes
64.3% of the vote · D+30.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 2,984 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,844votes
39.0% of the vote · D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,796 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
+52.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +37.4 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+29.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+5.1 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +15.1 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%2,531 | 51.3%2,667 | 5,198 |
| 2020 | D | 51.4%2,642 | 48.6%2,499 | 5,141 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+19.5, this roughly 9,400-person district ranks among Maine's more reliably blue state house seats, reflecting the Democratic strength common in the state's coastal and college-adjacent communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 36.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.5 points.
A population of 9,409, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,000 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 26 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 22nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.