The Green Papers: Maine 2018 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
✓ Primary: Tuesday 12 June 2018
✓ General Election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Thursday 15 March 2018 - Filing Deadline - Primary .
Friday 1 June 2018 - Filing Deadline - Independent .
Tuesday 12 June 2018 - Primary . Polling hours 6:00a-8:00p EDT (1000-0000 UTC). Voting places open between 6:00a Eastern Time and 10:00a Eastern Time depending on the size of the town.
Tuesday 6 November 2018 - General Election . Polling hours 6:00a-8:00p EST (1100-0100 UTC). Voting places open between 6:00a Eastern Time and 10:00a Eastern Time depending on the size of the town.
 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
Governor:1 
2010 Census:1,333,074 (0.43% of 309,785,186)
2012, 2016, 2020 Electoral Votes:4(0.74% of 538)
2012-2020 Representatives:2(0.46% of 435)
Capital:Augusta
 

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Maine State and Local Government


Maine has 4 qualified parties: Democratic, Green Independent, Libertarian, and Republican. Unopposed candidate do not appear on the primary ballot.

Maine's Primary Election uses ranked-choice voting. Sample ballot.


Upcoming Elections from the Maine Secretary of State.

List of Candidates Primary candidates from the Maine Secretary of State.

List of General Election Candidates from the Maine Secretary of State.

12 June 2018 Primary:
Returns from the Maine Secretary of State.
Results from The New York Times
Results from Politico.


6 November 2018:
General and Referendum Election - November 6, 2018 from the Maine Secretary of State.
Returns from the Maine Secretary of State.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 115th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Independent Senator Angus Stanley King, Jr.
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2012 as an Independent (announced that he will caucus with the Democrats 14 November 2012 and again on 5 November 2014)
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
22 June 2015: Senator Angus King announced the he has been diagnosed prostate cancer and does not expect it to interfere with this duties. He plans to run for re-election in 2018.
 Candidate list (3, 3 write-ins)
  Elected Independent 344,575 53.33% Senator Angus Stanley King, Jr.
FEC S2ME00109; 26 Nov 18; Tot $4,822,126; Dsb $4,419,388
  Candidate Republican 223,502 34.59% state Senator Eric L. Brakey
FEC S8ME00130; 31 Dec 18; Tot $962,795; Dsb $962,183
  Candidate Democratic 66,268 10.26% Zackary E. "Zak" Ringelstein
Democratic Socialists of America

FEC S8ME00155; 26 Nov 18; Tot $387,940; Dsb $382,352
  Candidate Scattering 11,655 1.80% Blank
  Candidate Scattering 64 0.01% Others
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican)     James N. Riley, Jr.
FEC S8ME00171; 06 Dec 18; Tot $0; Dsb $74
Total 646,064 100.00%  

Class 2 Republican Senator Susan M. Collins
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002, 2008, 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
 Candidate list (3)
  Candidate Democratic     Michael P. Bunker
FEC S0ME00061
  Candidate Democratic     Cathleen Greenberg "Cat" London
FEC S0ME00053
  Candidate Republican     Max Patrick Linn
FEC S8ME00163; 30 Jun 18; Tot $249,886; Dsb $249,886

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer, All Governors

Chair up for regular election
Open
Republican Governor Paul R. LePage
First elected: 2010; re-elected: 2014
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
 Candidate list (4, 6 write-ins)
  Elected Democratic 320,962 49.68% state Attorney General Janet T. Mills
  Candidate Republican 272,311 42.15% University of Maine System Trustee Shawn H. Moody
  Candidate Independent 37,268 5.77% state Treasurer Teresea M. "Terry" Hayes
  Candidate Scattering 15,346 2.38% Blank
  Candidate Scattering 126 0.02% Others
  Candidate Independent     Alan Caron
29 October 2018: Withdrew endorsing Attorney General Janet T. Mills (Democratic). He remains on the ballot but votes cast for him are counted as blanks.
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent)     Kenneth A. Capron
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent)     former state Senator John T. Jenkins
  Candidate Write-in; (Not readily classifiable)     Malon A. Tracy
Reform Maine's Future
  Candidate Write-in; (Unenrolled)     J. Martin Vachon
12 June 2018: Ran as a write-in in the the Democratic Primary.
Total 646,013 100.00%  

115th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2018, 2020. No Term Limit. 115th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
1 Democratic (1 Renominated);
1 Republican (1 Renominated)

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 1
Seat up for regular election
Democratic Congressman Chellie M. Pingree
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2008
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
 Candidate list (3, 2 write-ins) - 116th Congress
  Elected Democratic 201,195 57.49% Congressman Chellie M. Pingree
FEC H8ME01120; 26 Nov 18; Tot $776,481; Dsb $1,074,857
  Candidate Republican 111,188 31.77% Mark Irving Holbrook
FEC H6ME01207; 26 Nov 18; Tot $94,292; Dsb $95,471
  Candidate Independent 29,670 8.48% state Representative Martin James J. "Marty" Grohman
FEC H8ME01203; 26 Nov 18; Tot $367,494; Dsb $355,451
  Candidate Scattering 7,910 2.26% Blank
  Candidate Scattering     Others
Total 349,963 100.00%  

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 2
Seat up for regular election
Republican Congressman Bruce L. Poliquin
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated -
Vote totals are Ranked Choice Round 2 of 21 November 2018.
 Candidate list (4) - 116th Congress
  Elected Democratic 142,440 50.62% state Representative Jared F. Golden
FEC H8ME02185; 26 Nov 18; Tot $5,705,679; Dsb $5,623,956
  Candidate Republican 138,931 49.38% Congressman Bruce L. Poliquin
FEC H4ME02234; 31 Dec 18; Tot $4,233,235; Dsb $4,253,973
  Candidate Independent     Tiffany L. Bond
FEC H8ME02219
  Candidate Independent     William Rawle Sheridan "Will" Hoar
FEC H8ME02193
Total 281,371 100.00%  
 6 December 2018: Recount begins.
5 December 2018: U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker heard Baber v Dunlap 1:18cv-465 re: Congressman Bruce Poliquin claim that ranked choice voting violates the U.S. Constitution.
14 December 2018: "Although we continue to evaluate ... the constitutionality of rank voting ... I believe it is important to end the recount process ..." - Bruce Poliquin.
24 December 2018: Congressman Bruce Poliquin announced he will not pursue his lawsuit against Ranked Choice Voting.
 

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 1 incumbent, 6 candidates
  Republican: 3 incumbents, 6 candidates
Independents
  Independent: 1 incumbent, 8 candidates
  Unenrolled: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Not readily classifiable: 1 candidate
  Scattering: 6 candidates
  Write-in: 5 candidates
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


 


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