AUGUSTA — Maine officially cast its four Electoral College votes on Tuesday in a State House ceremony.
Following the results of the November election, Vice-President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, earned three of the state’s four votes — two for winning the statewide vote and one for the 1st Congressional District.
President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, won one vote from the state’s 2nd Congressional District.
Maine Republican Party Chairman Joel Stetkis said it was an honor to cast the ballot.
“An amazing honor of a lifetime for sure,” he said after the ceremony. “Knowing what my fellow Mainers and fellow Americans have gone through, suffered through over the last four years to know that now change is coming, the American Dream is going to be reborn under Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.”
Maine is one of only two states to split its electoral votes by congressional district. Nebraska is the other.
The ceremony featured brief remarks by Gov. Janet Mills, who introduced the four electors: Sen. Jill Duson of Portland; Waldo County Commissioner Betty Johnson of Lincolnville; Jay Philbrick of Yarmouth and Stetkis, a former state lawmaker from Canaan.
“Today these four individuals are convening in the Electoral College in this hall acting in honor and good faith to executive the will of those good people, the voters of Maine and to embody the peaceful transfer of power that is so vital to our 248-year experiment,” she said.
After casting her ballot for Harris, Duson said she was proud to be a part of the historical event.
“As a citizen and an elected official, I recognize the peaceful transition of power is paramount to protecting the promise we have made as a state and as a nation,” she said.
Vote totals in Maine show Harris with 435,351 votes to 377,837 for Trump. Percentage-wise, that gives Harris 51.6% and Trump 44.8%, with the rest going to the three other candidates on Maine’s presidential ballot.
Trump will be sworn in Jan. 20 after winning the national popular vote and 312 electoral votes.