1980 general · November 4, 1980

1980 Maine election results

Every race on Maine's ballot in the 1980 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races187

Changed party26

Unopposed25%47 races

Incumbents defeated8

President

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	Ronald Reagan (R)	3.4

R 2

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
ME-1	David F. Emery (R)	37.0
ME-2	Olympia J. Snowe (R)	57.0

D 16 · R 17 · 3 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Walter W. Hichens (R)	32.8
SD-2	Dennis L. Dutremble (D)	Unopposed
SD-3	Frank P. Wood (D)	28.5	Flipped
SD-4	John M. Kerry (D)	39.3
SD-5	Roland L. Sutton (R)	20.1
SD-6	David G. Huber (R)	Unopposed
SD-7	Ronald E. Usher (D)	13.2
SD-8	Barbara A. Gill (R)	4.4
SD-9	Gerard P. Conley (D)	Unopposed
SD-10	Mary Najarian (D)	Unopposed
SD-11	Nancy Randall Clark (D)	34.8
SD-12	Barbara M. Trafton (D)	16.4
SD-13	Richard R. Charette (D)	2.7
SD-14	Carroll E. Minkowshy (D)	20.9
SD-15	David R. Ault (R)	3.5
SD-16	Donald R. Oleary (D)	14.5
SD-17	Andrew Redmond (R)	15.9
SD-18	Richard H. Pierce (R)	17.9
SD-19	Beverly Bustin (D)	11.7	Flipped
SD-20	Charlotte Z. Sewall (R)	29.2
SD-21	Samuel W. Collins Jr. (R)	44.5
SD-22	Melvin A. Shute (R)	48.1
SD-23	Thomas M. Teague (R)	10.7
SD-24	Jerome A. Emerson (R)	19.0
SD-25	Howard M. Trotzky (R)	16.7
SD-26	Dana C. Devoe (R)	14.9
SD-27	Joseph Sewall (R)	Unopposed
SD-28	Thomas R. Perkins (R)	Unopposed
SD-29	Larry M. Brown (D)	15.9	Flipped
SD-30	Charles P. Pray (D)	37.4
SD-31	James McBreairty (R)	26.9
SD-32	Paul Elmer Violette (D)	Unopposed
SD-33	Michael E. Carpenter (D)	41.4

D 84 · R 67 · 23 changed party

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab