1988 general · November 8, 1988

1988 Maine election results

Every race on Maine's ballot in the 1988 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races190

Changed party20

Unopposed18%35 races

Incumbents defeated9

President

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	George H.w. Bush (R)	11.5

D 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	George Mitchell (D)	62.6

D 1 · R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
ME-1	Joseph Brennan (D)	26.4
ME-2	Olympia J. Snowe (R)	32.4

D 20 · R 15 · 4 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Raynold Theriault (D)	Unopposed
SD-2	Donald F. Collins (R)	34.2
SD-3	Margaret Ludwig (R)	6.5
SD-4	Charles M. Webster (R)	22.3
SD-5	Charles P. Pray (D)	11.3
SD-6	Michael D. Pearson (D)	23.7
SD-7	Edwin Randall (R)	3.5
SD-8	Edgar E. Erwin (D)	10.3
SD-9	Jerome A. Emerson (R)	36.3
SD-10	John Baldacci (D)	15.1
SD-11	Stephen Bost (D)	12.4	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-12	Thomas R. Perkins (R)	47.7
SD-13	Zachary Matthews (D)	20.9
SD-14	Robert R. Gould (R)	7.9
SD-15	R. Donald Twitchell (D)	52.3
SD-16	Georgette B. Berube (D)	27.6
SD-17	Judy C. Kany (D)	25.6
SD-18	Norman E. Weymouth (R)	2.8	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-19	Beverly Bustin (D)	13.1
SD-20	Muriel Holloway (R)	13.4
SD-21	Linda Brawn (R)	8.4
SD-22	R. Peter Whitmore (R)	33.7
SD-23	N. Paul Gauvreau (D)	40.1
SD-24	Pamela L. Cahill (R)	31.8
SD-25	Bonnie L. Titcomb (D)	4.1	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-26	Nancy Randall Clark (D)	Unopposed
SD-27	Robert Dillenback (R)	0.8
SD-28	Donald E. Esty Jr. (D)	24.3
SD-29	Joseph C. Brannigan (D)	Unopposed
SD-30	Thomas Andrews (D)	55.7
SD-31	Barry J. Hobbins (D)	Unopposed
SD-32	Barbara A. Gill (R)	34.6
SD-33	David L. Carpenter (R)	3.1	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-34	Dennis L. Dutremble (D)	40.8
SD-35	Stephen C. Estes (D)	10.8

D 98 · R 53 · 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: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab