Somerset County, Maine

2024 results by precinct

34 precincts · 28,441 votes cast

Trump · R+27

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−27.0%	10,134	17,826	28,441
2020	R	−23.1%	10,199	16,644	27,873
2016	R	−22.7%	9,092	15,001	26,064
2012	D	+1.7%	12,216	11,800	24,787
2008	D	+5.7%	13,335	11,867	25,758
2004	D	+2.2%	13,555	12,953	27,108
2000	D	+3.6%	11,538	10,684	23,951
1996	D	+23.9%	11,773	6,247	23,111
1992	D	+9.4%	9,274	6,780	26,424
1988	R	−14.0%	8,603	11,430	20,201
1984	R	−25.8%	7,657	13,010	20,771
1980	R	−6.0%	8,115	9,286	19,513
1976	D	+3.1%	9,465	8,868	18,966
1972	R	−26.0%	5,921	10,079	16,005
1968	D	+10.4%	8,312	6,720	15,356
1964	D	+40.3%	10,694	4,541	15,253
1960	R	−18.6%	6,956	10,142	17,098
1956	R	−43.5%	4,119	10,471	14,590
1952	R	−34.1%	4,815	9,805	14,649
1948	R	−21.8%	4,034	6,301	10,418
1944	R	−14.7%	5,331	7,167	12,523
1940	R	−7.0%	6,534	7,526	14,088
1936	R	−17.1%	5,282	7,558	13,281
1932	R	−8.2%	6,040	7,144	13,461
1928	R	−42.1%	3,251	8,055	11,406
1924	R	−54.2%	1,822	6,855	9,285
1920	R	−39.2%	2,770	6,533	9,592
1916	R	−6.2%	3,134	3,567	6,961
1912	D	+17.0%	2,317	1,235	6,356
1908	R	−35.6%	1,676	3,688	5,648
1904	R	−44.4%	1,324	3,716	5,386
1900	R	−29.2%	1,949	3,727	6,089
1896	R	−38.8%	2,018	4,695	6,892
1892	R	−13.1%	2,872	3,777	6,918
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 47.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.0%

3.5%

75–84

3.8%

7.0%

65–74

7.1%

8.0%

55–64

8.2%

6.5%

45–54

6.6%

5.5%

35–44

5.7%

6.0%

25–34

5.6%

3.3%

18–24

3.1%

7.1%

5–17

6.7%

2.2%

2.4%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,179

Somerset County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Somerset County$58,179

Maine$74,733

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Other Christian

6.3%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.4%

Baptist

1.5%

Methodist

0.9%

Mainline Protestant

0.6%

Non-Christian

0.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 83.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Somerset's sprawling interior landscape — logging towns, potato farms, and a shrinking manufacturing base — has tracked toward increasingly lopsided Republican margins over the past decade, with 2024's R+27.1 result among the widest in the state.

The Republican margin in Somerset County reached its widest at fifty-four points in 1924. The margin in 2024 was twenty-seven points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Somerset County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $58,179, a 95% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 50,959 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Aroostook County and Clare County.

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Somerset County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.