Maine State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | June 11, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Maine State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was June 11, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
All 35 Maine State Senate seats were up for election in 2024. Republicans won two seats in the election, giving Democrats a 20 seat majority to Republicans’ 15 seats. Before the election, Democrats controlled 22 seats to Republicans' 13.
According to the Maine Morning Star on November 7, 2024, Democrats were "poised to maintain their trifecta of power between the governor’s office and both chambers in the 132nd Maine Legislature."[1] This page will be updated with final results once recounts and election certifications are complete.
The Maine State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 22 | 20 | |
| Republican Party | 13 | 15 | |
| Total | 35 | 35 | |
Candidates
General election
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Primary
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maine
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. This tied with 2022 as the fewest defeated incumbents since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2010. Between 2010 and 2022, the average number of incumbents defeated in the general elections was 2.1.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
One incumbent lost in primaries. This was tied as the highest number of defeated incumbents since Ballotpedia began tracking this data in 2010. The other year with one incumbent defeated was 2016.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Peter Lyford | Senate District 10 |
Retiring incumbents
Six incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[2] The average number of retirements each cycle from 2010 to 2022 was 10. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Maine. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Maine in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 5, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
There were 186 state legislative seats up for election in Maine in 2024. Across those, 38 incumbents (22 Democrats and 16 Republicans) did not run for re-election. That was less than the average number of retirements in Maine from rom 2010-2022 (55.1) and was is the fewest number of retiring incumbents since 2016, when 38 incumbents retired (24 Democrats, 10 Republicans, and four Independents). In 2022, 75 incumbents did not run for re-election (39 Democrats, 35 Republicans, and one independent).
2016
- See also: Presidential election, 2016
| U.S. presidential election, Maine, 2016 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic |  Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine |
47.8% | 357,735 | 3 | |
| Republican | Donald Trump/Mike Pence | 44.9% | 335,593 | 1 | |
| Libertarian | Gary Johnson/Bill Weld | 5.1% | 38,105 | 0 | |
| Green | Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka | 1.9% | 14,251 | 0 | |
| - | Other/Write-in | 0.3% | 2,243 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | 747,927 | 4 | |||
| Election results via: Federal Election Commission | |||||
Maine presidential election results (1900-2024)
- 12 Democratic wins
- 20 Republican wins
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 |
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Maine Morning Star, "Democrats poised to maintain control of Maine Legislature," November 7, 2024
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Maine Revised Statutes, "Title 21-A, Chapter 5, Article 4, Section 335," accessed March 14, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Maine Secretary of State, "State of Maine 2024 Candidate's Guide to Ballot Access," accessed March 14, 2025
- ↑ Maine Revised Statutes, "Title 21-A, Chapter 5, Subchapter 1, Article 4, Section 336," accessed March 14, 2025
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Maine Revised Statutes, "Title 21-A, Chapter 5, Subchapter 2, Section 354," accessed February 10, 2014
- ↑ Maine Revised Statutes, "Title 21-A, Chapter 5, Subchapter 2, Section 355," accessed February 10, 2014
- ↑ Maine Revised Statutes, "Title 21-A, Chapter 9, Subchapter 3, Article 1, Section 722-A," accessed March 14, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Maine Constitution, "Article IV. Part First., Section 2," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ Maine Constitution, "Article IV. Part Second., Section 5," accessed November 1, 2021
