- Lead
- 1,709
- Total
- 5,982
- vs nation
- D+30.0
Maine 147th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,734
- Total
- 6,047
- vs nation
- D+24.2
- Lead
- 1,042
- Total
- 5,436
- vs nation
- D+17.1
- Lead
- 1,622
- Total
- 5,254
- vs nation
- D+27.0
- Lead
- 1,860
- Total
- 5,368
- vs nation
- D+27.4
- Lead
- 1,242
- Total
- 5,308
- vs nation
- D+25.9
- Lead
- 860
- Total
- 4,509
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 1,273
- Total
- 3,964
- vs nation
- D+23.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 8,6072024 5-year
- Population density
- 515 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,7362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 93.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 146, ME · twin score 99.8
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 147th 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
78.5%
1,886 votes · D+56.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 66.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
63.4%
656 votes · R+31.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 62.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,835votes
63.4% of the vote · D+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 3,798 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
2,101votes
34.7% of the vote · D+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,089 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
+35.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.4 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +34.3 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+16.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+22.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +10.3 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%2,057 | 39.7%1,352 | 3,409 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+28.6, this small district of roughly 8,600 residents sits firmly in the Democratic column, suggesting dense urban or college-town geography that consistently drives outsized Democratic performance.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 31.6 points in 1924. The 2024 margin was 28.6 points.
A population of 8,607, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,736 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 146 and State House District 135.
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 147th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/23147/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.