{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-me",
  "name": "Maine",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/me",
  "slug": "me",
  "state": "me",
  "state_name": "Maine",
  "state_id": "us-me"
 },
 "question": "How did Maine vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Angus S. King Jr. (Independent) won by 17.4 points",
  "value": 17.4,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Angus S. King Jr. (Independent) 52.1%, Demi Kouzounas (Republican) 34.6%, David Allen Costello (Democrat) 10.8%",
   "821,072 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Maine since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 3 and Republicans in 14.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       20.406,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       -22.651,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       21.739,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       -47.476,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       62.582,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       -22.701,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -23.88,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -5.306,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -37.882,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -16.872,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -53.651,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -22.748,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       -17.485,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -36.96,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -24.784,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -8.502,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -23.818,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Maine counts ranked choices (since 2018); these are first-choice votes, so a margin can differ from the final round's.",
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 486193,
    "votes": {
     "Edmund S. Muskie": 292704,
     "Robert A. G. Monks": 193489
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 375114,
    "votes": {
     "William S. Cohen": 212294,
     "William D. Hathaway": 127327,
     "Hayes E. Gahagan": 27824,
     "John J. Jannace": 5553,
     "Plato Truman": 2116
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 459715,
    "votes": {
     "George J. Mitchell": 279819,
     "David F. Emery": 179882
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 551406,
    "votes": {
     "William S. Cohen": 404414,
     "Elizabeth H. Mitchell": 142626,
     "P. Ann Stoddard": 4338
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 556745,
    "votes": {
     "George J. Mitchell": 452581,
     "Jasper S. Wyman": 104164
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 520320,
    "votes": {
     "William S. Cohen": 319167,
     "Neil Rolde": 201053
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 511733,
    "votes": {
     "Olympia J. Snowe": 308244,
     "Thomas H. Andrews": 186042,
     "Plato Truman": 17205
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 606777,
    "votes": {
     "Susan M. Collins": 298422,
     "Joseph E. Brennan": 266226,
     "John C. Rensenbrink": 23441,
     "William P. Clarke": 18618
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 634872,
    "votes": {
     "Olympia J. Snowe": 437689,
     "Mark W. Lawrence": 197183
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 504899,
    "votes": {
     "Susan M. Collins": 295041,
     "Chellie Pingree": 209858
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 545128,
    "votes": {
     "Olympia J. Snowe": 405596,
     "Jean M. Hay Bright": 113131,
     "William H. Slavick": 26222
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 724430,
    "votes": {
     "Susan M. Collins": 444300,
     "Thomas H. Allen": 279510
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 700599,
    "votes": {
     "Angus King": 370580,
     "Charles E. Summers Jr.": 215399,
     "Cynthia Ann Dill": 92900,
     "Stephen M. Woods": 10289,
     "Danny Francis Dalton": 5807,
     "Andrew Ian Dodge": 5624
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 604028,
    "votes": {
     "Susan M. Collins": 413505,
     "Shenna Bellows": 190254
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 634409,
    "votes": {
     "Angus S. King Jr.": 344575,
     "Eric L. Brakey": 223502,
     "Zak Ringelstein": 66268,
     "Others": 64
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 828305,
    "votes": {
     "Susan Margaret Collins": 417645,
     "Sara I. Gideon": 347223,
     "Lisa Savage": 40579,
     "Max Patrick Linn": 13508,
     "Blank Votes": 9122
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 821072,
    "votes": {
     "Angus S. King Jr.": 427570,
     "Demi Kouzounas": 284434,
     "David Allen Costello": 88875,
     "Jason S. Cherry": 20193
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Angus S. King Jr. (I) 52.1%",
    "Demi Kouzounas (R) 34.6%",
    "17.4 pts",
    "821,072"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Susan Margaret Collins (R) 50.4%",
    "Sara I. Gideon (D) 41.9%",
    "8.5 pts",
    "828,305"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Angus S. King Jr. (I) 54.3%",
    "Eric L. Brakey (R) 35.2%",
    "19.1 pts",
    "634,409"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Susan M. Collins (R) 68.5%",
    "Shenna Bellows (D) 31.5%",
    "37.0 pts",
    "604,028"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Angus King (I) 52.9%",
    "Charles E. Summers Jr. (R) 30.7%",
    "22.1 pts",
    "700,599"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Susan M. Collins (R) 61.3%",
    "Thomas H. Allen (D) 38.6%",
    "22.7 pts",
    "724,430"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Olympia J. Snowe (R) 74.4%",
    "Jean M. Hay Bright (D) 20.8%",
    "53.7 pts",
    "545,128"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Susan M. Collins (R) 58.4%",
    "Chellie Pingree (D) 41.6%",
    "16.9 pts",
    "504,899"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Olympia J. Snowe (R) 68.9%",
    "Mark W. Lawrence (D) 31.1%",
    "37.9 pts",
    "634,872"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Susan M. Collins (R) 49.2%",
    "Joseph E. Brennan (D) 43.9%",
    "5.3 pts",
    "606,777"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Olympia J. Snowe (R) 60.2%",
    "Thomas H. Andrews (D) 36.4%",
    "23.9 pts",
    "511,733"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "William S. Cohen (R) 61.3%",
    "Neil Rolde (D) 38.6%",
    "22.7 pts",
    "520,320"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "George J. Mitchell (D) 81.3%",
    "Jasper S. Wyman (R) 18.7%",
    "62.6 pts",
    "556,745"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "William S. Cohen (R) 73.3%",
    "Elizabeth H. Mitchell (D) 25.9%",
    "47.5 pts",
    "551,406"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "George J. Mitchell (D) 60.9%",
    "David F. Emery (R) 39.1%",
    "21.7 pts",
    "459,715"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "William S. Cohen (R) 56.6%",
    "William D. Hathaway (D) 33.9%",
    "22.7 pts",
    "375,114"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Edmund S. Muskie (D) 60.2%",
    "Robert A. G. Monks (R) 39.8%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "486,193"
   ]
  ]
 },
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  "now": "/data/places/us-me/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}