- Lead
- 2,986
- Total
- 6,085
- vs nation
- D+50.5
Maine 120th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,024
- Total
- 6,119
- vs nation
- D+45.0
- Lead
- 1,418
- Total
- 4,606
- vs nation
- D+28.7
- Lead
- 1,372
- Total
- 4,489
- vs nation
- D+26.7
- Lead
- 1,509
- Total
- 4,409
- vs nation
- D+27.0
- Lead
- 983
- Total
- 4,353
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 592
- Total
- 3,789
- vs nation
- D+15.1
- Lead
- 865
- Total
- 3,470
- vs nation
- D+16.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+49.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 9,3012024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,388 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,2142024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+49.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 115, ME · twin score 94.2
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 120th 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
Joe Biden2020
73.5%
4,497 votes · D+49.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 73.4%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
71.3%
665 votes · R+49.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 69.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,497votes
73.5% of the vote · D+49.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,468 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
1,661votes
54.4% of the vote · R+9.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 1,652 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
+50.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+49.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +45.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+35.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +32.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 69.4%2,941 | 30.6%1,295 | 4,236 |
Anchored in urban Portland, this compact district delivered one of Maine's widest presidential margins in 2024, reflecting a dense, highly educated electorate that has voted reliably left of the state median for over a decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 49.5 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 49.1 points.
A population of 9,301, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,214 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 115 and State House District 127.
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 120th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23120/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.