- Lead
- 2,112
- Total
- 20,033
- vs nation
- D+12.0
Maine 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,385
- Total
- 20,121
- vs nation
- D+7.4
- Lead
- 1,077
- Total
- 18,904
- vs nation
- D+3.6
- Lead
- 3,761
- Total
- 18,608
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 4,368
- Total
- 19,448
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 3,508
- Total
- 19,707
- vs nation
- D+20.3
- Lead
- 2,275
- Total
- 17,400
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 5,709
- Total
- 17,530
- vs nation
- D+24.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 38,2142024 5-year
- Population density
- 545 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 70.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,8472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, ME · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Maine 9th 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
74.0%
8,087 votes · D+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 64.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
69.2%
5,448 votes · R+38.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
11,726votes
60.3% of the vote · D+22.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 11,424 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,742votes
43.6% of the vote · D+10.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,494 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
James M. Cox1920
+43.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +29.2 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+37.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.6 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +23.1 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 | 48.7%10,280 | 51.3%10,833 | 21,113 |
| 2020 | D | 51.4%10,731 | 48.6%10,150 | 20,881 |
Covering a slice of Maine's rocky shoreline, this district of roughly 38,000 residents has leaned consistently Democratic at the presidential level, with the 2024 margin reaching nearly 12 points — suggesting a stable base rather than a competitive battleground.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 43.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.5 points.
A population of 38,214, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,847 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 10.
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 9th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/23009/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.