Portage Lake, ME is a small rural town in the state of Maine. The town is known for its picturesque landscape and strong sense of community. With a population of just over 1,000 people, Portage Lake residents take pride in their town and its culture. Politics in Portage Lake are quite unique due to the small size of the population. While it may not have many elected officials, the citizens of Portage Lake come together to ensure that local issues are discussed with care and attention. Although there are no local political candidates in this community, civic engagement is still valued highly as collective decision making is often used within the town to decide what matters most to them as a whole.
The political climate in Portage Lake, ME is moderately conservative.
Aroostook County, ME is moderately conservative. In Aroostook County, ME 39.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Aroostook county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.1% to 39.0%.
Aroostook county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Portage Lake, ME is moderately conservative.
Aroostook County, Maine is moderately conservative.
Maine is somewhat liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Portage Lake, Maine: d d d d R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Portage Lake, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $161 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 13 contributions totaling $1,200 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)