Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in a four-way race in Maine, according to a new poll.
The Maine People’s Resource Center survey of likely voters found Trump and Clinton even at 37 percent, followed by Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson at 11 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at 5 percent.
Clinton has 5-percentage-point advantage on Trump, 45-40, with 15 percent of voters remaining undecided, in a two-way race.
Maine’s is one of two states, the other being Nebraska, that award Electoral College votes via a congressional district method, meaning the winner of each district earns an Electoral College vote and the winner of the popular vote statewide gets the two electoral votes allocated to the U.S. senators’ seats.
The closeness of the presidential contest with under 50 days remaining until Election Day suggests its possible both candidates could succeed at increasing their Electoral College tally based on Maine’s results. Maine has four Electoral College votes.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a combative Republican who was an early Trump supporter, has won twice with the help of the vote split between multiple candidates.
The Maine People’s Resource Center survey of 835 Maine likely voters by phone and online from September 15-17 had a 3.4 percentage point margin of error. Real Clear Politics’ average of Maine polls shows Clinton with a lead of 5.5 percentage points in a four-way race and a 6.8-percentage-point advantage in a head-to-head match against Trump.
