- Lead
- 1,196
- Total
- 6,237
- vs nation
- D+20.6
Maine 131st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,346
- Total
- 6,216
- vs nation
- D+17.2
- Lead
- 830
- Total
- 5,428
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 1,418
- Total
- 5,232
- vs nation
- D+23.2
- Lead
- 1,654
- Total
- 5,354
- vs nation
- D+23.6
- Lead
- 1,004
- Total
- 5,298
- vs nation
- D+21.4
- Lead
- 691
- Total
- 4,556
- vs nation
- D+14.6
- Lead
- 1,131
- Total
- 3,941
- vs nation
- D+20.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,9602024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,211 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,0502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Bennington-1 State House District, VT · twin score 92.5
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 131st 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
75.9%
1,816 votes · D+51.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 64.8%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
64.3%
694 votes · R+34.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 63.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,712votes
59.7% of the vote · D+21.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 3,658 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,462votes
39.5% of the vote · D+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,366 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
+31.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.9 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +29.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+20.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +13.4 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 | 60.4%2,142 | 39.6%1,407 | 3,549 |
With roughly 9,000 residents, this compact district delivered a D+19 margin in 2024, reflecting the Democratic tilt common in Maine's denser coastal and college-town precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 34.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.2 points.
A population of 8,960, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,050 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bennington-1 State House District and State House District Grafton 16.
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 131st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23131/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.