Vice President Kamala Harris is projected to win three of Maine's four electoral college votes.
According to the Associated Press, 91% of the state's precincts have filed, and Harris leads President-elect Donald Trump 52.3% to 45% with three of Maine's four electoral votes. called The campaign took place Wednesday night after Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election.
Meanwhile, Trump is projected to win Maine's 2nd Congressional District, receiving one of the state's four electoral votes.
The victory of the 45th president and soon-to-be 47th president in this district marks the second time since 2016 that Maine's electoral votes have been split, and the first time Trump has won the state's 2nd Congressional District. But that's when I won.
Maine's Electoral College vote explained:
Typically, the presidential candidate who wins each state's popular vote receives all of that state's Electoral College votes, but two states, Maine and Nebraska, are taking a different approach.
These states instead decided to allocate two Electoral College votes to the state's popular vote winner and one Electoral College vote to the winner of each state's congressional district.
As for Maine, the state has a total of four electoral votes, two of which represent the popular vote winners in Maine's two U.S. House districts. The state's other two Electoral College votes represent the winner of the statewide popular vote.
Notably, this method creates an opportunity for the Electoral College vote to be split.
Maine, which established this method ahead of the 1972 presidential election, split its electoral vote for the first time in 2016. Trump won the state's 2nd Congressional District. This district consists of most of the land in Maine north of the Portland and Augusta metropolitan areas. .
The last time a Republican candidate won Maine's entire electoral vote was 36 years ago under former President George H.W. Bush. lost Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
Trump on Tuesday won a landslide victory over Harris in the 2024 presidential election with 292 Electoral College votes as of this writing, according to election results released by the Associated Press. I got it.
The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president is expected to receive 312 of the Electoral College votes after races in Nevada, Arizona and Alaska are formally called. , is expected to outperform the results of the 2016 election, when the president took office. won The number of votes in the Electoral College is 304.
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