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UPDATED Jul. 19, 2022, at 3:50 PM

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The partisan breakdown of Maine’s new map
Status:Approved
partisan lean of districts:
Old map
2 districts
majority
This map
2 districts
There are 1 Democratic-leaning seat and 1 Republican-leaning seat in Maine’s new map.Change from old map: None.
The competitiveness and fairness of Maine's maps
Median seat
Difference between the partisan lean of the state’s median district and the state as a whole.
Old mapR+0.9
New mapR+1.3
Efficiency gap
Difference between each party’s share of “wasted votes” — those that don’t contribute to a candidate winning.
Old mapR+5.3
New mapR+6.4
Competitiveness
The number of districts in the state whose partisan leans are between R+5 and D+5.
Old map0/2
New map0/2
The demographic and partisan breakdown of Maine’s new map
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other
DistrictIncumbentPartisan leanRacial makeup
1st
Chellie PingreeD
D+16
2nd
Jared GoldenD
R+10

The racial makeup of each district is of the voting-age population.

The latest in Maine

Sept. 29, 2021

Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed a new congressional map into law on Sept. 29, after a supermajority passed it in the state legislature. The approved map was a compromise put forward by the state’s apportionment commission after each party had initially proposed separate congressional maps.

The new map is not a dramatic departure from last decade’s map, but since Maine’s population growth has primarily come from the 1st District, some voters had to be moved from the Democratic-leaning 1st to the Republican-leaning 2nd in order to equalize the populations of the two districts.

The approved plan moves the state capital, Augusta, into the 2nd District. As a result, it marginally helps shore up support for Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, who represents the seat despite former President Donald Trump having won the district in both 2016 and 2020. Golden is one of only seven Democrats who represents a seat that Trump won in 2020, currently giving Democrats control of both of Maine’s two congressional districts. That seat is sure to be hotly contested in the 2022 midterm elections.

Latest updates
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Sept. 29, 2021
The Maine Legislature voted to approve state legislative and congressional redistricting plans (LD 1738, 1739, and 1741). Maine Governor Janet Mills signed the legislation the same day, completing Maine's redistricting process.
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Sept. 24, 2021
The Maine Apportionment Commission voted to approve U.S. Congressional and state House of Representatives redistricting maps. The state Senate maps are still under consideration.
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Sept. 24, 2021
The Maine Apportionment Commission has proposed additional congressional and state legislative redistricting maps.

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Who controls redistricting in Maine right now?
Neither party fully controls the congressional redistricting process. New maps are drawn by a bipartisan commission made up of state legislators and citizens, but the Democratic state legislature can modify or reject the commission's proposals. The final map must be passed by two-thirds of each chamber and signed into law by the Democratic governor.
All of the other proposed maps in Maine
MapPlanProposed byPartisan breakdown
Republican caucus planMaine Republicans
Democratic caucus planMaine Democrats