Political Alignment
Every town, legislative district, county and region in Maine, lined up from the most Democratic to the most Republican. Choose the kind of place and the measure; each block opens that place’s page.
From most Democratic to most Republican
The Partisan EAI is the margin a place would be expected to give in a neutral national year; its colors are the safe, lean and battleground classes shown on every place page. Partisan Edge is the Democratic–Republican balance of active voters on the rolls, and Hidden Lean how much more Democratic (D+) or Republican (R+) a place votes than its enrollment predicts. All three are explained on the Methodology page.
How to read the blocks. Each block is one place, ordered by the measure chosen, with its value in the corner (D+12 means 12 points more Democratic than Republican). The dashed block marks Maine as a whole. On the Partisan EAI a place is safe at 15 points or more when the other party came no closer than 5 points in any recent race, lean at 7 to 15 points (or 15+ with a close race), and a battleground within 7 points; the color can therefore differ from the number’s band for a few places. Partisan Edge and Hidden Lean have no classes, so their blocks are shaded by size in 5-point steps, as on the place pages; a place whose figure rounds to even is gray.
Showing only some places. Type a district number (117), a town (Portland), a county (Cumberland) or a region (Midcoast) in Show only and press Return: the blocks are narrowed to the places that match — on the State House view, Portland gives every district that includes part of Portland; on the Towns view, Cumberland gives the towns of Cumberland County. The summary above the blocks stays for the whole level, and each block keeps its statewide rank. The Town size buttons leave out towns with fewer than 300 or 1,000 two-party votes in 2024, whose figures move most from one election to the next.
Districts. State House and Senate districts are the current (2023–2032) lines; towns split between districts are divided by their precincts. The small letter on a legislative block is the party of the member who holds the seat today (officeholders table), so the page shows where a seat is held against its lean. Small towns’ figures move more from one election to the next than large ones’; the place pages give each town’s size class. 504 towns are scored, including 19 unorganized townships that have no page of their own.
Scores v5; registration from the Secretary of State’s file of 2026-03-07. The full tables are on Download the Data.