- Lead
- 1,573
- Total
- 5,595
- vs nation
- D+29.6
Maine 126th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,579
- Total
- 5,593
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 614
- Total
- 4,680
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 762
- Total
- 4,480
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 915
- Total
- 4,456
- vs nation
- D+13.3
- Lead
- 368
- Total
- 4,477
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 91
- Total
- 3,930
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 495
- Total
- 3,504
- vs nation
- D+5.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,8362024 5-year
- Population density
- 252 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 35 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $112,0172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 109, ME · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 126th 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
66.9%
1,305 votes · D+33.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 63.1%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
73.8%
759 votes · R+54.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 71.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
3,529votes
63.1% of the vote · D+28.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 3,513 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
2,018votes
45.1% of the vote · D+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 1,956 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
+29.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +23.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+42.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +39.7 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 | 66.7%2,567 | 33.3%1,283 | 3,850 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of nearly D+28, this small district of under 9,000 residents sits well outside Maine's competitive swing territory, anchored by a reliably left-leaning electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 54.4 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 28.1 points.
A population of 8,836, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $112,017 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 109 and State House District 105.
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 126th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23126/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.