Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Molly Bouchard | 21 | Miss Northern Aroostook | Classical Vocal | Previously Maine's Junior Miss 2008 | |||
| 2011 | Julia Furtado | Dayton | 19 | Miss Seacoast | Vocal "Over the Rainbow" | |||
| 2010 | Arikka Knights | Chester | 24 | Miss Greater Lincoln | Tap Dance "Jumpin' Jack" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 | ||
| 2009 | Susie Stauble | Gray | 22 | Vocal "Stand Up for Love" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | |||
| 2008 | Adrienne Watkinson | Topsham | 23 | Miss Topsham | Violin | |||
| 2007 | Tara Allain | Waterville | 22 | Miss Kennebec County | Dance "Hangin' By a Thread" | |||
| 2006 | Karissa Staples | Biddeford | 19 | Miss Greater Portland | Vocal "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent | |||
| 2005 | Megan Beals | Ludlow | 22 | Miss Houlton | Vocal "Johnny One Note" | |||
| 2004 | Ami Vice | Lisbon Falls | 23 | Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine | Bernie Wayne Scholarship, Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 2003 | Elizabeth Edgecomb | Limestone | 20 | Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Non-Finalist Talent | |||
| 2002 | Rachel Wadsworth | Hiram | 20 | Miss Forest City | Rhythm Tap Dance | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2001 | ||
| 2001 | Meranda Hafford | Washburn | 20 | Miss Northern Aroostook | Vocal "Next Time I Love" | |||
| 2000 | Renee Belanger | Washburn | 22 | Miss Northern Aroostook | Jazz Dance "Jet Prologue" from West Side Story | |||
| 1999 | Rebecca Pelkey | Howland | 21 | Miss Greater Portland | Character Ballet "Can-Can" | |||
| 1998 | Stephany Stanley | Canton | 20 | Miss Southeast | Acro-Jazz Dance "The Stampede!" from The Lion King | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1997 | ||
| 1997 | Rachel Binder | Presque Isle | 23 | Miss Aroostook County | Lyrical Ballet "Seasons of Love" | |||
| 1996 | Sarah Nadeau | Portland | 20 | Miss Greater Portland | Classical Vocal "Addio" from La bohème | |||
| 1995 | Sharon Pelletier | Madawaska | 23 | Miss Greater Portland | Popular Vocal "At This Moment" | |||
| 1994 | Victoria Renyolds | Bangor | 22 | Miss Cumberland County | Tap Dance | |||
| 1993 | Josette Huntress | Limestone | 21 | Miss Northern Maine | Piano | |||
| 1992 | Christina Jane Lasso | Augusta | 23 | Miss Central Maine | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | |||
| 1991 | Dorie Noble | South Portland | 25 | Miss Cumberland County | Comedic Monologue "Yma Dream" by Thomas Meehan | |||
| 1990 | Ann Rowe | Auburn | 26 | Miss Greater Portland | Vocal "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables | |||
| 1989 | Jane Brochu | Augusta | 25 | Miss Augusta | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | |||
| 1988 | Lisa Kent | Gorham | 21 | Miss Cumberland County | Gymnastics / Jazz Dance | |||
| 1987 | Laurie Watham | Fort Fairfield | 25 | Miss Northern Aroostook | Piano Solo "Ode to Joy" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1986 | Victoria Reed | Falmouth | 26 | Miss Windjammer | Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" | |||
| 1985 | Mary Margaret Nightingale | Fort Fairfield | 20 | Miss Southern Aroostook | Vocal "The Blue Danube" | |||
| 1984 | Lisa Johnson | South Portland | 22 | Miss Cumberland County | Electric Violin | |||
| 1983 | Brenda Theriault | Presque Isle | 22 | Miss Southern Aroostook | Vocal "Bill Bailey" | |||
| 1982 | Rebecca Beck | Brunswick | 21 | Miss Bangor | Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus | |||
| 1981 | Kathleen Jarrell | Orr's Island | 19 | Miss Windjammer | Vocal Medley "Swanee," "My Mammy" & "I'm Happy" | |||
| 1980 | Valerie Crooker | Brunswick | 24 | Miss Brunswick | Vocal / Dance | Previously Miss Maine USA 1979, currently serves as President of the Miss Maine Board of Directors | ||
| 1979 | Jill O'Brien | Bangor | 22 | Miss Bangor | Ballet "Irish Suite" | |||
| 1978 | Linda Carroll | Alfred | 22 | Miss Maine Mall | Semi-Classical Vocal "I Could Have Danced All Night" | |||
| 1977 | Terry Gilpatrick | Lincoln | 18 | Miss Lincoln | Pantomime "Me and My Shadow" | |||
| 1976 | Susan Wambaugh | Presque Isle | 19 | Miss Maine Potato Queen | Dramatic Monologue from As You Like It | |||
| 1975 | Patricia Cyr | Madawaska | 18 | Miss Maine Potato Queen | Vocal "Cabaret" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1974 | Margaret Ann Welch | Bangor | 22 | Miss Greater Bangor | Vocal "Killing Me Softly with His Song" | |||
| 1973 | Carlene Quimby | Auburn | 20 | Miss University of Maine | Vocal "I Cain't Say No" | |||
| 1972 | Marilyn Lash | Friendship | 19 | Miss University of Maine | Semi-Classical Vocal "Poor Wand'ring One" from The Pirates of Penzance | |||
| 1971 | Allyn Warner | Falmouth | 21 | Miss Greater Portland | Semi-Classical Vocal "Mira" from Carnival | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe; Competed in the 1966 Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1970 | Karen Johanna Johnson | Cumberland Foreside | 20 | Miss Greater Portland | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1969 | Kirsten Elizabeth Bell | Caribou | 18 | Miss Caribou | Piano Solo "Theme from The Apartment" | |||
| 1968 | Brenda Renee Verceles | Bangor | 19 | Miss Bangor | Tap Dance "Step to the Rear" from How Now, Dow Jones | |||
| 1967 | Linda Christine Livanda | Cape Elizabeth | 19 | Miss Cape Elizabeth | Original Recitation & Dance "Dance of the Decades" | |||
| 1966 | Mary Kathryn Gonya | Millinocket | 20 | Miss Millinocket | Recitation | Previously Maine's Junior Miss 1964 | ||
| 1965 | Ellen Margaret Fowler | Old Orchard Beach | 19 | Miss Gorham State Teachers' College | Vocal / Dance "Some People" | |||
| 1964 | Ellen J Warren | Kennebunk | 18 | Vocal / Dance | Toured with Miss America USO troupe, featured performer on the 1965 and 1966 Miss America Pageant telecasts | |||
| 1963 | Elaine Ann Ouillette | Lewiston | Miss Lewiston | Musical Variety Act | ||||
| 1962 | Barbara Jean Orr | Portland | 19 | Miss Livermore Falls | Vocal "I Wanna Be Loved by You" | |||
| 1961 | Dawn Frances Christie | Gray | 21 | Miss Scarborough | Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1960 | Sally Ann Robinson | Enfield | 20 | Miss Lincoln | Monologue / Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1959 | Linda Mills | Lewiston | 18 | Dramatic Reading | Assumed the title after the original winner, Linda Leeman, withdrew in order to get married | |||
| 1958 | Terry Suzanne Tripp | Lewiston | Ballet | |||||
| 1957 | Carol Ann Bartels | Bath | Drama / Art | |||||
| 1956 | Mary Ellen Sanborn | Gardiner | Drama | |||||
| 1955 | Janice Vaughn | Waterville | ||||||
| 1954 | Mary Ellen St. John | Old Town | Drama | |||||
| 1953 | Karen Diane Thorsell | Portland | Vocal | |||||
| 1952 | Norma Lee Collins | Caribou | ||||||
| 1951 | Beverly Ann Emery | Auburn | Classical Vocal from The Student Prince | |||||
| 1950 | Jane Harragan | Millinocket | Drama "The Corn Is Green" | |||||
| 1949 | Connie Gingrass | Augusta | ||||||
| 1948 | Muriel Applebee | Enfield | ||||||
| 1945 | Virginia Trask | Portland | Vocal "I Should Care" | |||||
| 1943 | Eleanor Fournier | Westbrook | ||||||
| 1940 | Shirley Edith Houston | Augusta | ||||||
| 1938 | Doris Marie Bergeron | Lewiston | ||||||
| 1937 | Cornelia Campbell | South Portland | ||||||
| 1936 | Dolly Stewart | Rockland | ||||||
| 1936 | Edna Smith | Portland | competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant | |||||
| 1933 | Iva Stewart | 19 | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1924 | No Miss Maine | Lillian J. Barry competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Maine | Winona Evelyn Drew competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant. |
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