2020 United States presidential election in Maine

The primary elections were held on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Republican primary Incumbent President Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus he received all of Maine's 22 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention. Democratic primary Joe Biden won the state primary. Opponent Bernie Sanders won the Maine caucus in 2016. Libertarian nominee • Jo Jorgensen, Psychology Senior Lecturer at Clemson University Green nominee • Howie Hawkins, co-founder of the Green Party, trade unionist and environmental activist Alliance nominee • Rocky De La Fuente, businessman ==General election==

Ballot access The Libertarian Party was recognized by Maine as an official party in June 2016 but lost that status in December 2018. To qualify for ballot access, Jorgensen was required to submit 4,000 petition signatures to the state by August 3. Jorgensen sued the state for a reduction of the signature requirement, citing an increase in the difficulty of petitioning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jorgensen was successful in appearing on the ballot. Final predictions Polling Graphical summary (statewide) Aggregate polls Statewide polls Graphical summary (Maine's 1st congressional district) Aggregate polls with Donald Trump and Joe Biden Graphical summary (Maine's 2nd congressional district) Aggregate polls with Donald Trump and Joe Biden with Donald Trump and Pete Buttigieg with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders with Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren '''with Pete Buttigieg in Maine's 1st congressional district''' '''with Kamala Harris in Maine's 1st congressional district''' '''with Bernie Sanders in Maine's 1st congressional district''' '''with Elizabeth Warren in Maine's 1st congressional district''' '''with Pete Buttigieg in Maine's 2nd congressional district''' '''with Kamala Harris in Maine's 2nd congressional district''' '''with Bernie Sanders in Maine's 2nd congressional district''' '''with Elizabeth Warren in Maine's 2nd congressional district''' with Generic Democrat with Generic Opponent '''with Generic Democrat in Maine's 1st congressional district''' '''with Generic Democrat in Maine's 2nd congressional district''' Results By county Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic • Kennebec (largest municipality: Augusta) By congressional district Biden won the first of Maine's two congressional districts. Trump won the other district, which elected a Democrat to the House of Representatives in the same election cycle. == Analysis ==

Biden carried the Pine Tree State by a 9.07% margin over Trump, improving over Hillary Clinton's 3% win margin in 2016. Biden handily carried Maine's 1st congressional district by 23%, while Trump carried its 2nd congressional district by 7.4%, winning a single electoral vote from the state. This marked the first election in history in which Maine and Nebraska both split their electoral votes. Ranked-choice tabulation was ultimately not used as Biden earned a majority statewide and in the 1st district, while Trump earned a majority in the 2nd district. Biden narrowly flipped Kennebec County (home to the state capital, Augusta) four years after Clinton lost it. All other counties favored the same party they did in 2016. Maine is located in New England, an area that has become a Democratic Party stronghold. It was once a classic Rockefeller Republican state, but social issues have moved it to the Democratic column. The last Republican to win all its electoral votes was George H. W. Bush in 1988. Per exit polls by the Associated Press, Biden's strength in Maine came from liberals, with Biden winning whites 54%–44%, including 56% of white women. Biden was even competitive with Trump among Maine's gun owners, a traditionally Republican interest group, capturing 42% of their vote to Trump's 57%. This was the first presidential election since 2004 in which Maine's 2nd congressional district backed the losing candidate, and the 2nd district is the only part of the so-called Blue Wall which Trump won in 2020, referring to states and electoral-vote areas that voted Democratic in every election from 1992 to 2012; Biden thus became the first Democrat since 1976 to win the White House without carrying this district, and consequently also the first since said election to win without carrying all of the electoral votes located in New England. Biden also became the first Democrat since 1892 to win the White House without carrying Androscoggin County, the first since 1976 to do so without carrying Aroostook, Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot, or Washington counties, and the first since 1992 to do so without carrying Somerset County. Edison exit polls ==See also==