- Lead
- 934
- Total
- 4,705
- vs nation
- D+21.3
Maine 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 999
- Total
- 4,788
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 635
- Total
- 4,562
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 1,298
- Total
- 4,519
- vs nation
- D+24.9
- Lead
- 1,457
- Total
- 4,730
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 1,256
- Total
- 4,779
- vs nation
- D+28.7
- Lead
- 900
- Total
- 4,223
- vs nation
- D+20.8
- Lead
- 1,692
- Total
- 4,343
- vs nation
- D+30.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 9,4112024 5-year
- Population density
- 654 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 14.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,9842024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 24, ME · twin score 97.3
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 23rd 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
77.3%
2,104 votes · D+54.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 68.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
65.4%
1,186 votes · R+30.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 64.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
3,057votes
64.6% of the vote · D+30.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 2,980 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,834votes
39.0% of the vote · D+19.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,797 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
+52.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +37.5 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+30.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+5.9 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +15.4 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%2,532 | 51.3%2,668 | 5,200 |
| 2020 | D | 51.4%2,643 | 48.6%2,500 | 5,143 |
With roughly 9,400 residents, this Maine House district recorded a 19.9-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the leftward tilt common to coastal and college-adjacent communities in the state's southern tier.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 36.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.9 points.
A population of 9,411, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,984 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 24 and State House District 21.
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 23rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.