Maine early voting, as of Oct 28
This is the report the office published as of Oct 28, saved on Oct 29, 1:52 PM ET. It does not change. See the latest count.
244,931
early ballots cast in Maine
As of Oct 28, 3:02 PM ET
- In-person early votes
- 130,815
- Mail ballots returned
- 114,491
- Mail ballots accepted
- 114,116
- Mail ballots requested
- 156,339
Source: Maine Secretary of State, statewide absentee voter data file. electionwrld.com/early-vote/ME/2026-10-28
Day by day, saved since Oct 29
We started saving counts on Oct 29. Only one report is saved for Maine so far. Each date is the one the office gives, so a first report can be dated a day before we saved it. Nothing earlier is filled in.
| Report date | Early ballots | Added | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28 | 244,931 | First report | CSV |
Statewide figures only
Maine reports by municipality, and the Secretary publishes no table that groups them into counties.
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Source and notes
Maine Secretary of State, statewide absentee voter data file
Totals counted from the Secretary's voter-level absentee file (not stored here), counting each voter once. Accepted means the file's status is accepted (ACT, ACU or ACH). In-person is Maine's early absentee voting at the municipal clerk's office. The file is named as of 10/30/2026. Updated Oct 28, 3:02 PM ET; retrieved Oct 29, 1:52 PM ET.
- The source lists municipalities, not counties, and the Secretary publishes no municipality-to-county table we could fetch, so county figures are left out.
- Party figures are voters' registered party enrollment among accepted ballots, not how anyone voted. Maine's U is unenrolled; O combines any other party.
- The Secretary says the file reflects data entered by municipal clerks and may miss what clerks received that day, so it lags.
- Mail requested counts voters with an absentee request made any way other than voting in the clerk's presence (electronic, telephone, written, UOCAVA and similar request types). Mail returned counts those voters' absentee ballots received back by any method the file records (by mail, delivered by the voter, by a family member or third person, and so on), whatever the ballot's status. Early in-person is ballots cast in the clerk's presence, which the Secretary calls in-person absentee voting, not early voting. Early in-person and the total count accepted ballots only. A voter whose first ballot was rejected and who then voted again is counted once.
- No 2022 comparison: the Secretary's 2022 absentee file refused our requests (HTTP 403), so none was fetched.