The Bangor Daily News ran the numbers on 10,076 votes. Collins really has broken with her party on decisive votes more than any other senator — and 72% of the time her deciding vote went to the Republicans. Under this Trump term, she's broken four times.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
More than 150 people gathered outside Collins' Biddeford office over her vote for $70 billion in new ICE funding. One of them was Alessia Gaspar Da Silva, whose husband has been in ICE custody for seven months.
Harris won Maine with 52.4% of the vote to 45.5%, a margin of 6.9 points. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
1 of 4 — 25%. In the U.S. House, Maine has 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats; in the Senate, 1 Republican and 1 Democrat. Angus King is an independent, and is counted with the Democrats he caucuses with. (Source: Current members of Congress from Maine, on Wikipedia.)
Maine ranks #11 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Maine directly to other states on our Compare States page.
2, listed above. We grade Republicans running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Maine. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — 81 days away. Check your registration and polling place at vote.org.