Thomaston, ME (04861) is a small rural town in Knox County located on the mid-coast of Maine. Within Thomaston’s borders lies Penobscot Bay and the scenic St. George River. While it's not a large municipality, Thomaston's politics are active and often center around issues that affect its citizens such as roads, taxes, schools, and other municipal services. Every two years, voters in Thomaston elect a mayor and five trustees to serve in the local government. Currently Thomaston is led by Mayor Stanley Gerber who was first elected in 2017. The trustees for the town are Lisa Brackett, Seth Halloran, Christopher Kilgore, Isiah Metcalfe and Gail Wotton. Together they make up the Board of Selectmen which is responsible for setting policies and overseeing all financial operations of the town.
The political climate in Zip 04861 (Thomaston, ME) is somewhat liberal.
Knox County, ME is moderately liberal. In Knox County, ME 58.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Knox county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.7% to 38.8%.
Knox county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 04861 (Thomaston, ME) is somewhat liberal.
Thomaston, Maine is somewhat liberal.
Knox County, Maine is moderately liberal.
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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.
Thomaston, 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 zip 04861 (Thomaston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 165 contributions totaling $3,479 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $21 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 8 contributions totaling $1,062 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)