November 15, 2018
STILL CRESTING...:
Golden wins Maine's 2nd District race, flips another seat in U.S. House to Democrats (KEVIN MILLER, 11/15/18, Press Herald)
Democrat Jared Golden was declared the winner of Maine's 2nd Congressional District race on Thursday following a historic tabulation of ballots using ranked-choice voting.Golden, a Marine Corps veteran and state lawmaker from Lewiston, began the day roughly 2,000 votes behind incumbent Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin. But Golden surged past Poliquin by slightly less than 3,000 votes after the ranked-choice votes of two independents in the race were redistributed Thursday afternoon.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 15, 2018 1:23 PM