2018 United States Senate election in Maine

2018 United States Senate election in Maine

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Turnout59.96%
 
Nominee Angus King Eric Brakey Zak Ringelstein
Party Independent Republican Democratic
Popular vote 344,575 223,502 66,268
Percentage 54.31% 35.23% 10.45%

King:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Brakey:      40–50%     50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      

U.S. senator before election

Angus King
Independent

Elected U.S. Senator

Angus King
Independent

The 2018 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, U.S. House elections, and other state and local elections. Incumbent independent Senator Angus King won reelection to a second term. This was one of two independent-held Senate seats up for election in a state that Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election.

The primary election was held on June 12, 2018.[1]

The U.S. Senate elections were conducted with ranked-choice voting, as opposed to a simple plurality, after Maine voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016[2] and a June 2018 referendum sustaining the change.[3] Ranked choice voting was used in the primary elections as well.[4] The first round of each election saw a majority and the instant runoff did not need to be carried out.

  1. ^ "United States Senate election in Maine, 2018 - Ballotpedia". Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "Maine became the first state in the country Tuesday to pass ranked choice voting". Boston Globe. November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. ^ "Maine Voters Overrule Their Leaders". The Atlantic. June 15, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  4. ^ "Ranked-choice voting fans hope Maine's experiment pays off". Miami Herald. June 21, 2018. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved October 22, 2018.

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