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Republican nominee Austin Theriault on Wednesday ended the recount for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, officially handing the win to incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden. “After the recount of ...
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden won the ranked choice vote with 50.35% for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which election officials determined Friday through a tabulation process ...
2022 Maine's 1st congressional district election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Chellie Pingree (incumbent) 219,753 : 62.9 : Republican: Ed Thelander 129,263 37.0 Write-in: 160 0.0 Total votes 349,176 : 100 : Democratic hold
Golden defeated former NASCAR driver and state Rep. Austin Theriault to secure his fourth term in Congress.
The 2nd district covers most of northern rural Maine, including the cities of Lewiston, Bangor, Auburn and Presque Isle. The incumbent was Democrat Jared Golden , who flipped the district and was elected with 50.6% of the vote in 2018, [ 4 ] making him the first member of Congress to be elected by ranked choice voting . [ 20 ]
Maine's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. Covering 27,326 square miles (70,770 km 2 ), it comprises nearly 92% of the state's total land area. The district comprises most of the land area north of the Portland and Augusta metropolitan areas.
The swing district, the 2nd Congressional, is one of the few in New England. Golden has been in office since 2019, winning both prior elections with just over 50% of the vote.
This was the first presidential election since 2004 in which Maine's 2nd congressional district backed the losing candidate, and the 2nd district is the only part of the so-called Blue Wall which Trump won in 2020, referring to states and electoral-vote areas that voted Democratic in every election from 1992 to 2012; Biden thus became the first ...