† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
1 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupLewiston-Auburn, MEMaineUnited States
English17.7%21.8%9.5%
French17.2%11.3%1.6%
Irish14.6%16.5%9.4%
French Canadian12.3%6.1%—
German6.6%7.8%12.5%
American5.3%5.9%5.3%
Italian4.6%5.4%4.8%
Scottish3.3%4.4%1.3%
African American†3.2%0.9%9.9%
Somali1.1%0.2%—
African0.5%—0.5%
Nigerian0.3%—0.2%
Mexican0.8%0.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.6%0.5%1.8%
Filipino0.4%0.2%0.9%
Chinese0.3%0.2%1.3%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
Maine
United States
Median age
40.5
44.8
39.1
Age 18–24
9.7%
8.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.9%
22.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
Maine
United States
Median household income
$67,873
$74,733
$84,427
Poverty rate
14.4%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
23.4%
36.1%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
Maine
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
10.5%
6.1%
22.3%
Spanish
1.0%
1.0%
13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
5.3%
2.3%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
1.0%
0.6%
2.0%
Other languages
1.7%
0.6%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
Maine
United States
Catholic
26.4%
16.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
6.0%
6.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
60.0%
69.3%
51.5%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−10.6%
1896
−36.4%
1900
−18.1%
1904
−31.0%
1908
−16.5%
1912
+35.9%
1916
+9.4%
1920
−24.2%
1924
−30.6%
1928
−3.7%
1932
+18.7%
1936
+22.5%
1940
+29.9%
1944
+27.1%
1948
+20.4%
1952
−1.4%
1956
−12.5%
1960
+28.1%
1964
+60.3%
1968
+43.5%
1972
+0.3%
1976
+23.3%
1980
+9.4%
1984
−14.9%
1988
−4.3%
1992
+14.6%
1996
+30.8%
2000
+12.8%
2004
+10.7%
2008
+15.2%
2012
+12.8%
2016
−9.4%
2020
−2.8%
2024
−6.1%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
45.9%Harris27,019
52.0%Trump30,605
1.1%Stein634 +3
R+6.1
R+3.3
R+4.6
58,847
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican52.0%30,605
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic45.9%27,019
Jill SteinIndependent1.1%634
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%370
Cornel WestIndependent0.3%189
OthersIndependent0.1%30
R
46.5%Biden27,617
49.3%Trump29,268
4.2%
R+2.8
D+6.6
R+7.2
59,361
R
41.4%Clinton23,009
50.8%Trump28,227
7.9%
R+9.4
R+22.2
R+11.5
55,601
D
54.8%Obama28,989
42.1%Romney22,232
3.1%
D+12.8
R+2.4
D+8.9
52,862
D
56.5%Obama31,017
41.3%McCain22,671
2.1%
D+15.2
D+4.5
D+7.9
54,850
D
54.4%Kerry30,503
43.7%Bush24,519
1.9%
D+10.7
R+2.1
D+13.1
56,067
D
53.3%Gore26,251
40.5%Bush19,948
6.2%
D+12.8
R+18.0
D+12.3
49,245
D
56.6%Clinton26,428
25.8%Dole12,053
17.7%
D+30.8
D+16.1
D+22.2
46,731
D
40.3%Clinton22,247
25.7%Bush14,174
34.0%
D+14.6
D+18.9
D+9.1
55,144
R
47.5%Dukakis21,165
51.7%Bush23,061
0.8%
R+4.3
D+10.7
D+3.5
44,585
R
42.3%Mondale19,885
57.2%Reagan26,904
0.4%
R+14.9
R+24.3
D+3.3
47,000
D
49.3%Carter22,715
39.9%Reagan18,399
10.8%
D+9.4
R+13.9
D+19.1
46,080
D
60.7%Carter26,484
37.4%Ford16,330
1.9%
D+23.3
D+23.0
D+21.2
43,665
D
50.1%McGovern19,509
49.9%Nixon19,406
0.0%
D+0.3
R+43.3
D+23.4
38,924
D
71.0%Humphrey26,820
27.5%Nixon10,390
1.4%
D+43.5
R+16.8
D+44.2
37,752
D
80.1%Johnson30,080
19.8%Goldwater7,441
0.0%
D+60.3
D+32.2
D+37.7
37,535
D
64.0%Kennedy26,097
36.0%Nixon14,654
0.0%
D+28.1
D+40.6
D+27.9
40,751
R
43.7%Stevenson15,842
56.3%Eisenhower20,385
0.0%
R+12.5
R+11.2
D+2.9
36,227
R
49.2%Stevenson17,560
50.6%Eisenhower18,049
0.2%
R+1.4
R+21.8
D+9.4
35,676
D
59.7%Truman17,405
39.2%Dewey11,443
1.1%
D+20.4
R+6.7
D+16.0
29,165
D
63.5%Roosevelt19,078
36.4%Dewey10,927
0.1%
D+27.1
R+2.8
D+19.6
30,039
D
64.9%Roosevelt19,273
35.0%Willkie10,394
0.1%
D+29.9
D+7.4
D+19.9
29,707
D
60.6%Roosevelt16,657
38.1%Landon10,480
1.2%
D+22.5
D+3.7
R+1.8
27,477
D
58.8%Roosevelt14,441
40.1%Hoover9,838
1.2%
D+18.7
D+22.5
D+1.0
24,562
R
47.9%Smith10,940
51.6%Hoover11,790
0.5%
R+3.7
D+26.8
D+13.7
22,854
R
29.2%Davis4,733
59.8%Coolidge9,680
11.0%
R+30.6
R+6.3
R+5.4
16,187
R
36.6%Cox5,757
60.8%Harding9,565
2.6%
R+24.2
R+33.6
D+2.0
15,724
D
53.1%Wilson5,464
43.7%Hughes4,496
3.2%
D+9.4
R+26.5
D+6.3
10,286
O
44.4%Wilson4,516
8.4%Taft859
47.2%
Roosevelt +2.8
D+52.4
D+16.4
10,176
R
39.6%Bryan3,095
56.1%Taft4,381
4.3%
R+16.5
D+14.6
R+6.9
7,815
R
31.3%Parker2,206
62.3%Roosevelt4,393
6.4%
R+31.0
R+12.9
R+11.4
7,050
R
39.3%Bryan3,182
57.4%McKinley4,648
3.2%
R+18.1
D+18.3
R+10.6
8,092
R
30.2%Bryan2,513
66.6%McKinley5,548
3.2%
R+36.4
R+25.8
R+30.4
8,329
R
41.9%Cleveland3,452
52.5%Harrison4,326
5.7%
R+10.6
—
R+12.3
8,244
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
50.4%29,332
37.9%22,073
58,214
2020
R
37.8%22,181
56.2%32,979
58,690
2018
D
53.9%22,150
46.1%18,931
41,093
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2025D+0.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+6.1
Lewiston-Auburn, ME registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 6.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Lewiston-Auburn, ME in Lewiston-Auburn, ME: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−694
2012
−280
2013
−667
2014
−363
2015
−470
2016
−107
2017
−66
2018
+323
2019
+150
2021
+1,795
2022
+610
2023
+603
2024
+204
2025
+387
Lewiston-Auburn has drawn national attention since the early 2000s, when a significant Somali refugee resettlement shifted the demographic profile of what had been a declining Franco-American mill city, producing measurable swings in local electoral patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 36.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.1 points.
A population of 113,423, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,873 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Augusta-Waterville, ME and Massena-Ogdensburg, NY.
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In 2024, Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine voted Republican by 6.1 points (R+6.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 58,847 votes cast, 27,019 went Democratic and 30,605 went Republican.
When did Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine?
Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine has a population of 113,423 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine?
Median household income in Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine is $67,873 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maine state median is $74,733.
What is the political history of Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lewiston-Auburn, ME, Maine from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
