- Lead
- 304
- Total
- 4,592
- vs nation
- D+8.1
Maine 88th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 147
- Total
- 4,329
- vs nation
- R+1.1
- Lead
- 225
- Total
- 4,101
- vs nation
- R+7.6
- Lead
- 649
- Total
- 3,918
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 781
- Total
- 4,077
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 626
- Total
- 4,167
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 599
- Total
- 3,689
- vs nation
- D+15.7
- Lead
- 1,182
- Total
- 3,519
- vs nation
- D+25.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+6.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,9612024 5-year
- Population density
- 248 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 36.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,3862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.3 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 96, ME · twin score 96.1
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 88th 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
81.5%
2,330 votes · D+62.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 73.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
64.7%
391 votes · R+35.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 59.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
2,405votes
52.4% of the vote · D+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 2,390 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,101votes
45.8% of the vote · D+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,021 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
Hubert Humphrey1968
+47.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.1 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +40.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+29.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +8.2 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 | D | 53.4%2,441 | 46.6%2,128 | 4,569 |
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+6.7, against D+19.2 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. About 8,460 residents lived here, with White alone at 87.6% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 35.3 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.6 points.
A population of 8,961, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,386 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 96 and State House District 57.
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 88th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23088/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.