Sagadahoc County is a small county located in the state of Maine. It has a population of around 32,000 people and is home to several rural communities. Politically, the county mostly votes Democratic with 65% voting for Democratic candidates in the most recent general election. The county has one state representative who is a Democrat and one senator who is an independent. In local elections, residents have the opportunity to vote for county commissioners, school board members, and other positions that help shape their community. Overall, Sagadahoc County is relatively politically safe as it tends to vote for more familiar faces and policies that support its rural communities.
The political climate in Sagadahoc County, ME is somewhat liberal.
In Sagadahoc County, ME 56.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sagadahoc county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.3% to 40.6%.
Sagadahoc county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sagadahoc County, ME is somewhat liberal.
Portland-South Portland Metro Area is strongly liberal.
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.
Sagadahoc, Maine: d d D D d D
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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Sagadahoc County, ME
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,576 contributions totaling $401,033 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 449 contributions totaling $109,021 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $243 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)