The race for Maine’s Second Congressional District is going to ranked choice tabulations.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said that based on unofficial returns, Maine broke another record for the number of voters turning out for a midterm with more than 730,000 voting in the 2026 general election.

The official tally from the Secretary of State for the 2nd Congressional District race will remain undecided, probably for another week.

Conservative Ukraine stalwarts like New York’s Mike Lawler and Maine’s Susan Collins were shown the political door on election night. At the same time, Republican members who have been more sympathetic to Russia,

Susan Collins, a five-term senator and a political Goliath in Maine, couldn’t overcome the "Trump tsunami," she told the New York Times.

LePage, who likes to say he was Trump before Trump, appears to have won Maine’s second congressional district race.

Retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) congratulated his likely successor, Republican candidate Paul LePage, on winning Maine’s 2nd Congressional District and flipping the seat red despite the blue wave that swept the midterm elections. “Four times, the people of Maine’s 2nd District chose me to represent them in Congress. I know what an incredible honor it […]

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Despite having only three months to campaign, Democrat Troy Jackson was able to defeat five-term Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.