- Lead
- 4,443
- Total
- 5,528
- vs nation
- D+81.8
Maine 117th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,467
- Total
- 5,578
- vs nation
- D+75.6
- Lead
- 3,623
- Total
- 4,920
- vs nation
- D+71.5
- Lead
- 3,554
- Total
- 4,788
- vs nation
- D+70.4
- Lead
- 3,747
- Total
- 4,803
- vs nation
- D+70.7
- Lead
- 3,241
- Total
- 4,439
- vs nation
- D+75.5
- Lead
- 2,485
- Total
- 3,748
- vs nation
- D+65.8
- Lead
- 2,302
- Total
- 3,654
- vs nation
- D+57.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+80.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,5782024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,798 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,0762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 119, ME · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 117th 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
91.5%
2,037 votes · D+83.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 88.8%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
39.3%
236 votes · D+8.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 35.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,932votes
88.4% of the vote · D+80.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,908 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
561votes
21.9% of the vote · D+56.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 559 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
Kamala Harris2024
+81.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +75.6 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−29.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+47.6 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · −30.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 69.4%2,712 | 30.6%1,194 | 3,906 |
Maine 117th State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.0 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 80.4 points.
A population of 8,578, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,076 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 119 and State House District 118.
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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