- Lead
- 51
- Total
- 4,434
- vs nation
- D+0.3
Maine 142nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 271
- Total
- 4,364
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 34
- Total
- 3,667
- vs nation
- R+3.0
- Lead
- 354
- Total
- 3,377
- vs nation
- D+6.6
- Lead
- 505
- Total
- 3,409
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 62
- Total
- 3,484
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 39
- Total
- 2,999
- vs nation
- R+1.8
- Lead
- 350
- Total
- 2,687
- vs nation
- D+4.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,8002024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,354 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,9032024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District Strafford 09, NH · twin score 93.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 142nd 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
69.3%
1,010 votes · D+38.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 56.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
72.2%
242 votes · R+47.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,244votes
51.4% of the vote · D+6.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,148 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,199votes
49.6% of the vote · R+1.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,973 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+16.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +15.5 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+36.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +32.0 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 | 60.3%2,103 | 39.7%1,382 | 3,485 |
Maine 142nd State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 47.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.2 points.
A population of 8,800, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,903 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District Strafford 09 and State House District Strafford 08.
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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