The 2020 Maine House of Representatives elections took place on November 3, 2020 alongside the biennial

United States elections Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people of each state, through an Electora ...

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

voters elected members of the

Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ...

via

plurality voting Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which a candidate, or candidates, who poll more than any other counterpart (that is, receive a plurality), are elected. In systems based on single-member districts, it elects just one member per ...

in all 151 of the state house's districts, as well as a non-voting member from the

Passamaquoddy Tribe The Passamaquoddy ( Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: ''Peskotomuhkati'') are a Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America. Their traditional homeland, Peskotomuhkatik'','' straddles the Canadian province of New Brunswick ...

. The election was also held alongside

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

for the Maine Senate. State representatives serve two-year terms in the

Maine State House The Maine State House in Augusta, Maine, is the state capitol of the State of Maine. The building was completed in 1832, one year after Augusta became the capital of Maine. Built using Maine granite, the State House was based on the design of the ...

Predictions

Summary of results

''Italics'' denote an open seat held by the incumbent party, bold text denotes a gain for a party. Sources: Incumbents- 2018 Maine House of Representatives election; Winners

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

Incumbents not seeking reelection

Term-limited incumbents

22 incumbent representatives (eighteen Democrats, three Republicans and one independent) were term-limited and constitutionally prevented from seeking a fifth consecutive term. #Richard Campbell (R), District 130 # Janice Cooper (D), District 47 # Mattie Daughtry (D), District 49 ''( Ran for State Senate)'' #Michael Devin (D), District 90 # Richard Farnsworth (D), District 37 # Drew Gattine (D), District 34 #

Sara Gideon Sara I. Gideon (born December 4, 1971) is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party from Freeport, she represented the 48th district in the Maine House of Representa ...

(D), District 48 ''( Ran for U.S. Senate)'' #

Craig Hickman Craig V. Hickman (born December 8, 1967) is an American writer, farmer, and Democratic politician from Maine currently representing Maine Senate District 14. He served in the 126th Maine House of Representatives as the representative for Maine' ...

(D), District 81 # Brian Hubbell (D), District 135 #Erik Jorgensen (D), District 41 # Victoria Kornfield (D), District 125 ''( Ran for State Senate)'' #

Lawrence Lockman Lawrence E. Lockman is an American lumber worker, lobbyist and political activist from Amherst, Maine, who has served as a Republican member of the Maine House of Representatives since 2012. In 2020, Lockman ran for the Maine State Senate, cha ...

(R), District 137 #Donald Marean (I), District 16 # Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D), District 18 # Andrew McLean (D), District 27 #Matthew Moonen (D), District 38 #Catherine Nadeau (D), District 78 #Roger Reed (R), District 103 # Deane Rykerson (D), District 1 #John Schneck (D), District 126 # Stephen Stanley (D), District 143 #Ryan Tipping (D), District 123

Retiring incumbents

Eight incumbent representatives were eligible to seek another term but chose not to. #Anne Beebe-Center (D), District 93 #Anne Carney (D), District 20 ''( Ran for State Senate)'' #Philip Curtis (R), District 111 #Diane Denk (D), District 9 #Sheldon Hanington (R), District 142 # Chloe Maxmin (D), District 88 ''( Ran for State Senate)'' #Harold Stewart (R), District 147 ''( Ran for State Senate)'' #Scott Strom (R), District 106

Defeated incumbents

In primary

One incumbent representative sought reelection but was defeated in the primary election. #John DeVeau (R), District 149

In general

Nine incumbent representatives sought reelection but were defeated in the general election. #Kent Ackley (I), District 82 #Betty Austin (D), District 107 #Shawn Babine (D), District 29 # Jim Handy (D), District 58 #Norman Higgins (I), District 120 #Daniel Hobbs (D), District 7 # Henry Ingwersen (D), District 10 #Christina Riley (D), District 74 #Bettyann Sheats (D), District 64

Detailed results

District 1

District 2

District 3

District 4

District 5

District 6

District 7

District 8

District 9

District 10

District 11

District 12

District 13

District 14

District 15

District 16

District 17

District 18

District 19

District 20

District 21

District 22

District 23

District 24

District 25

District 26

District 27

District 28

District 29

District 30

District 31

District 32

District 33

District 34

District 35

District 36

District 37

District 38

District 39

District 40

District 41

District 42

District 43

District 44

District 45

District 46

District 47

District 48

District 49

District 50

District 51

District 52

District 53

District 54

District 55

District 56

District 57

District 58

District 59

District 60

District 61

District 62

District 63

District 64

District 65

District 66

District 67

District 68

District 69

District 70

District 71

District 72

District 73

District 74

District 75

District 76

District 77

District 78

District 79

District 80

District 81

District 82

District 83

District 84

District 85

District 86

District 87

District 88

District 89

District 90

District 91

District 92

District 93

District 94

District 95

District 96

District 97

District 98

District 99

District 100

District 101

District 102

District 103

District 104

District 105

District 106

District 107

District 108

District 109

District 110

District 111

District 112

District 113

District 114

District 115

District 116

District 117

District 118

District 119

District 120

District 121

District 122

District 123

District 124

District 125

District 126

District 127

District 128

District 129

District 130

District 131

District 132

District 133

District 134

District 135

District 136

District 137

District 138

District 139

District 140

District 141

District 142

District 143

District 144

District 145

District 146

District 147

District 148

District 149

District 150

District 151

Source:

Notes

External links

Ballotpedia: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2020

Elections & Voting division
of the

Maine Secretary of State The secretary of state of Maine is a constitutional officer in the U.S. state of Maine and serves as the head of the Maine Department of State. The Secretary of State performs duties of both a legislative branch as well as an executive branch off ...

* * (State affiliate of the U.S.

League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters (LWV or the League) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization in the United States. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, and advocating for vot ...

) *

References

{{Maine House of Representatives Maine House of Representatives elections