- Lead
- 8,187
- Total
- 24,006
- vs nation
- R+32.6
Maine 4th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,345
- Total
- 23,047
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 6,524
- Total
- 21,608
- vs nation
- R+32.3
- Lead
- 3,004
- Total
- 20,478
- vs nation
- R+18.5
- Lead
- 2,864
- Total
- 21,305
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 4,042
- Total
- 22,244
- vs nation
- R+15.7
- Lead
- 4,179
- Total
- 20,368
- vs nation
- R+21.0
- Lead
- 1,173
- Total
- 18,858
- vs nation
- R+2.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+34.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,6542024 5-year
- Population density
- 9.4 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4,345 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,3192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 92.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+63.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, ME · twin score 95.2
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 4th State Senate 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
60.6%
8,005 votes · D+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 48.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
80.9%
10,595 votes · R+61.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 79.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
9,028votes
42.4% of the vote · R+13.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 8,901 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,884votes
66.2% of the vote · R+34.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,912 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
−1.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −2.3 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+53.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.9 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +46.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 45.2%10,383 | 54.8%12,574 | 22,957 |
| 2020 | D | 50.9%7,275 | 49.1%7,013 | 14,288 |
Covering a largely rural stretch of western Maine, this district backed the Republican presidential nominee by nearly 23 points in 2024, making it one of the state's widest margins at the legislative level.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 63.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.1 points.
A population of 40,654, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,319 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 19.
The state-senate 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 4th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/23004/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.