1986 general · November 4, 1986

1986 Maine election results

Every race on Maine's ballot in the 1986 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races189

Changed party24

Unopposed13%24 races

Incumbents defeated11

Governors

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	John R. McKernan Jr. (R)	9.7	Flipped

D 1 · R 1 · 1 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
ME-1	Joseph Brennan (D)	9.4	Flipped
ME-2	Olympia J. Snowe (R)	54.7

D 20 · R 15 · 6 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Raynold Theriault (D)	Unopposed
SD-2	Donald F. Collins (R)	26.3
SD-3	Margaret Ludwig (R)	10.3	Flipped
SD-4	Charles M. Webster (R)	26.3
SD-5	Charles P. Pray (D)	12.4
SD-6	Michael D. Pearson (D)	34.9
SD-7	Edwin Randall (R)	14.2	Flipped
SD-8	Edgar E. Erwin (D)	11.8
SD-9	Jerome A. Emerson (R)	35.8
SD-10	John Baldacci (D)	8.6
SD-11	Mary Ellen Maybury (R)	31.2
SD-12	Thomas R. Perkins (R)	50.0
SD-13	Zachary Matthews (D)	10.3
SD-14	Robert R. Gould (R)	23.6
SD-15	R. Donald Twitchell (D)	Unopposed
SD-16	Georgette B. Berube (D)	Unopposed
SD-17	Judy C. Kany (D)	51.4
SD-18	Charles G. Dow (D)	11.8
SD-19	Beverly Bustin (D)	28.8
SD-20	Charlotte Z. Sewall (R)	23.5
SD-21	Linda Brawn (R)	7.1	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-22	R. Peter Whitmore (R)	2.0	Flipped
SD-23	N. Paul Gauvreau (D)	Unopposed
SD-24	Pamela L. Cahill (R)	9.0
SD-25	Henry W. Black (R)	12.3
SD-26	Nancy Randall Clark (D)	32.1
SD-27	Robert Dillenback (R)	5.6	Flipped
SD-28	Ronald E. Usher (D)	22.4
SD-29	Joseph C. Brannigan (D)	Unopposed
SD-30	Thomas Andrews (D)	Unopposed
SD-31	John M. Kerry (D)	36.1
SD-32	Barbara A. Gill (R)	Unopposed
SD-33	John L. Tuttle Jr. (D)	28.8
SD-34	Dennis L. Dutremble (D)	28.6
SD-35	Stephen C. Estes (D)	20.3	Flipped

D 86 · R 65 · 16 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: English Wikipedia; Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab