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| 📷 Rep. Jared Golden of Maine's 2nd District speaks at a news conference on Nov. 1, 2022, at the State House in Augusta. (AP photo by Robert F. Bukaty) |
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🔢 The ranked-choice count in Maine's 2nd District comes today.
◉ It is all but assured that Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat, won a third term over former Rep. Bruce Poliquin, but he fell short of a first-round majority last week, so Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' office is running a ranked-choice count of the district's votes in Augusta on Tuesday afternoon. Watch it live.
◉ Independent Tiffany Bond will be eliminated and the second choices of the 21,000 votes who ranked her first will be considered. Golden leads with 48.3 percent of votes to Poliquin's 44.8 percent, according to unofficial results reported to the Bangor Daily News.
◉ Golden is expected to get a majority of the Bond voters who rank someone second, according to a SurveyUSA poll released this month by FairVote and the Bangor Daily News. We are expecting something like a 6- to 7-point win for the incumbent when the count concludes.
💅 Maine saw record turnout in last week's election.
◉ Maine had the second-highest voter turnout among state for this midterm election, lagging only Minnesota, according to preliminary data collected by the U.S. Elections Project.
◉ The 675,000 voters estimated to have come out would add equal 60.9 percent of the voting-eligible population. It is the largest share on record for a midterm election here going back to 2010, narrowly outpacing the 60.2 percent that voted in the 2018 election in which Mills won her first term. |
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What we're reading
👀 A Maine surgeon's career advanced despite complaints of gender discrimination and patient care complaints, a BDN investigation found.
⛄ There will be less federal heating aid available to Mainers this winter.
⏪ Former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap was reappointed as state auditor after leaving the position last year because of a failed exam.
😬 The University of Maine and the system's Farmington campus need to close large budget gaps before the academic year ends. |
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