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2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine
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All 2 Maine seats to the United States House of Representatives
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Democratic Republican
Last election 1 1
Seats won 2 0
Seat change Increase1 Decrease1
Popular vote 343,635 250,119
Percentage 55.12% 40.12%
Swing Increase3.19% Decrease7.89%
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain

The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of Maine, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.

These U.S. House 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[1] and a June 2018 referendum sustaining the change.[2] Ranked-choice voting was used in the primary elections as well.[3]

While Rep. Chellie Pingree in District 1 was reelected with a majority, no candidate received a majority in District 2, which meant that the ranked-choice tabulation needed to occur. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, who received a plurality of first-round votes, filed a federal lawsuit to halt that tabulation, arguing that ranked-choice voting was unconstitutional. The court ruled against Poliquin in his request for a motion on November 15 and against the lawsuit itself on December 13. On November 15, Jared Golden was declared the winner after the ranked-choice redistribution, becoming the first member of Congress to be elected via ranked-choice voting.

Overview

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Results of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine by district:[4]

District Democratic Republican Others Total Result
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
District 1 201,195 58.82% 111,188 32.51% 29,670 8.67% 342,053 100.0% Democratic hold
District 2 142,440 50.62% 138,931 49.38% 0 0.00% 281,371 100.0% Democratic gain
Total 343,635 55.12% 250,119 40.12% 29,670 4.76% 623,424 100.0%
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District 1

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2018 Maine's 1st congressional district election
← 2016
2020 →
 
Nominee Chellie Pingree Mark Holbrook Marty Grohman
Party Democratic Republican Independent
Popular vote 201,195 111,188 29,670
Percentage 58.8% 32.5% 8.7%
County results
Pingree:      50–60%      60–70%
U.S. Representative before election

Chellie Pingree
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

Chellie Pingree
Democratic

See also: Maine's 1st congressional district

Chellie Pingree, the incumbent representative, was first elected in 2008, and in 2016 defeated Republican nominee Mark Holbrook with just under 58 percent of the vote. Holbrook ran again for the Republican nomination, and was unopposed. Independent State Representative Marty Grohman, elected as a Democrat in the 2016 State House election, defected from the party in 2017. He launched his campaign for the first district in spring 2018.

Due to the use of ranked-choice voting in the election, Pingree was considered to be vulnerable if she did not win outright in the first round, as Grohman could have been a second choice for Republican and Democratic voters.[5] Grohman was receiving substantial support from Republican elected officials and activists, including Republican governor Paul LePage[6] and the state director of President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign Christie-Lee McNally.[7]

Democratic primary

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Declared

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Results

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Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Chellie Pingree (incumbent) 74,376 100.0
Total votes 74,376 100.0

Republican primary

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Declared

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  • Mark Holbrook, professional counselor and 2016 nominee for this seat[9]

Results

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Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Holbrook 40,679 100.0
Total votes 40,679 100.0

Independents

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Declared

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  • Marty Grohman, state representative[9]

Endorsements

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Chellie Pingree

Local and statewide politicians

Organizations

Trade Unions

Media

Mark Holbrook

Individuals

Organizations

Marty Grohman

Local and statewide politicians

Other individuals

Organizations

General election

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Forum & Debate

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2018 Maine's 1st congressional district candidate forum & debate
No. Date Host Moderator Link Democratic Republican Independent
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Chellie Pingree Mark Holbrook Marty Grohman
1 Oct. 22, 2018 WCSH Pat Callaghan [23] P P P
2 Nov. 1, 2018 Maine Public Television Jennifer Rooks WETA[24] P P P

Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		Chellie
Pingree (D) 		Mark
Holbrook (R) 		Marty
Grohman (I) 		Other Undecided
Emerson College[25] October 27–29, 2018 442 ± 4.9% 56% 31% – 7% 6%
Pan Atlantic Research[26] October 1–7, 2018 249 – 53% 29% 11% – 7%

Results

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Maine's 1st congressional district, 2018[27]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Chellie Pingree (incumbent) 201,195 58.8
Republican Mark Holbrook 111,188 32.5
Independent Marty Grohman 29,670 8.7
Total votes 342,053 100.0
Democratic hold

District 2

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2018 Maine's 2nd congressional district election
← 2016
2020 →
 
Nominee Jared Golden Bruce Poliquin Tiffany Bond
Party Democratic Republican Independent
First round 132,013
45.6% 		134,184
46.3% 		16,552
5.7%
Maximum round 142,440
50.6% 		138,931
49.4% 		Eliminated
Golden:      40%–50%      50%–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Poliquin:      40%–50%      50%–60%      60–70%     70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      
No votes:      
U.S. Representative before election

Bruce Poliquin
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

Jared Golden
Democratic

See also: Maine's 2nd congressional district

Bruce Poliquin, the incumbent representative for the second district, defeated Democrat Emily Cain in the 2016 election in a rematch of the 2014 election where Poliquin was first elected. Poliquin ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. Cain did not challenge Poliquin again, instead taking a job with the progressive group Emily's List. Initially, six candidates filed for the Democratic nomination — United States Postal Service employee and activist Phil Cleaves, carpenter and former Maine State Senate candidate Jonathan Fulford, Assistant Majority Leader of the State House of Representatives Jared Golden, shopkeeper and former chair of the Isleboro Board of Selectmen Craig Olson, businessman and former State Senate candidate Tim Rich, and conservationist Lucas St. Clair. Cleaves, Rich and Fulford dropped out at various points in the campaign, though Fulford's withdrawal happened too late for his name to be removed from the primary ballot. Several candidates received prominent endorsements; St. Clair was endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters and California Congressman Jared Huffman, Fulford by the left-wing group Our Revolution prior to his withdrawal from the race, and Golden by VoteVets, Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton and over two dozen members of the Maine Legislature. Golden defeated St. Clair and Olson in the second round of the ranked-choice vote tabulation.

In addition, two third-party candidates announced their candidacies for the seat: Houlton Band of Maliseets State Representative Henry John Bear of the Maine Green Independent Party and Brian Kresge of the Libertarian Party. Bear, a former Democrat, left the party due to its stance on water rights for Maine's native people. He failed to qualify for the ballot. Kresge, a veteran and writer, withdrew from the race to run for a seat in the State House of Representatives. Neither the Libertarians nor Green Independents had a candidate on the ballot.

Two independent candidates qualified for the ballot: Tiffany Bond, an attorney from Portland (a city outside of the second district), and Will Hoar, a schoolteacher.

Republican primary

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Declared

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Results

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Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bruce Poliquin (incumbent) 43,047 100.0
Total votes 43,047 100.0

Democratic primary

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Candidates

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Declared
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Withdrawn
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Declined
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Endorsements

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Jonathan Fulford (withdrawn)

Individuals

  • Ben Chin, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Lewiston, 2015 and 2017[33]

Organizations

Jared Golden

State and local politicians

Other individuals

Local Democratic organizations

National organizations

Local and statewide organizations

  • Maine People's Alliance[46]

Trade Unions

Lucas St. Clair

Individuals

Organizations

Newspapers

Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		RCV
round 		Jonathan
Fulford 		Jared
Golden 		Craig
Olson 		Lucas
St. Clair 		Other Undecided
Survey USA[53] (with RCV) April 26-May 1, 2018 217 LV ± 7.2% Round 1 17% 22% 5% 25% - 31%
Round 2 27% 35% - 38% -
Round 3 - 49% - 51% -
Global Strategy Group[54] October 2–5, 2017 300 ± 5.7% N/A - 8% - 40% 7% 45%

Fundraising

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(Through March 31, 2017)[55]

  • Jared Golden: $618,380.33
  • Lucas St. Clair: $424,958.42
  • Jonathan Fulford (withdrawn): $166,989.79
  • Craig Olson: $100,299.00
  • Tim Rich (withdrawn): $72,197.20
  • Emily Cain (not running): $24,692.88

Debates

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2018 Maine's 2nd congressional district democratic primary debates
No. Date Host Moderator Link Democratic Democratic Democratic
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Jared Golden Craig Olson Lucas St. Clair
1 Jun. 5, 2018 Maine Public Television Jennifer Rooks WETA[56] P P P
2 Jun. 6, 2018 WABI-TV
WAGM-TV
WMTW (TV) 		Meghan Torjussen [57] P P P

Results

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Democratic primary results[58]
Party Candidate Round 1 Round 2
Votes % Transfer Votes % (gross) % (net)
Democratic Jared Golden 20,987 46.4% +2,624 23,611 52.2% 54.3%
Democratic Lucas St. Clair 17,742 39.2% +2,111 19,853 43.9% 45.7%
Democratic Craig Olson 3,993 8.8% -3,993 Eliminated
Democratic Jonathan Fulford 2,489 5.5% -2,489 Eliminated
Total active votes 45,211 100% 43,464 100.0%
Exhausted ballots - +1,747 1,747 3.9%
Total votes 45,211 100% 45,211 100.0%

% (gross) = percent of all valid votes cast (without eliminating the exhausted votes)
% (net) = percent of votes cast after eliminating the exhausted votes

Green primary

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Failed to make the ballot

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Libertarian primary

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Withdrawn

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Independent candidates

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  • Tiffany Bond, attorney[60]
  • Will Hoar, schoolteacher[60]

General election

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All candidates except for Poliquin said they would abide by the results of ranked-choice voting and make second and third choices when they vote. Poliquin said he would only cast a first-round vote for himself, stating that he felt no one but him is qualified for the seat.[61]

Though Poliquin led in the first round of vote tabulation by 2,171 votes, he did not have a majority of the votes, initiating the ranked-choice tabulation process. Poliquin filed a lawsuit in federal court on November 13, seeking an order to halt the second-round tabulation of ballots and declare ranked-choice voting unconstitutional.[62] Poliquin's request for an injunction to halt the ranked-choice voting process was rejected, shortly before Matthew Dunlap, the Maine Secretary of State, announced Golden as the winner by 3,509 votes after votes for independent candidates Tiffany Bond and Will Hoar were eliminated and ballots with these votes had their second- or third-choice votes counted.[63]

Poliquin requested a recount of the ballots just before the deadline of November 26.[64] After several days of counting with the result not being significantly changed, Poliquin ended the recount after incurring $15,000 in fees.[65] Poliquin also stated that his lawsuit would continue[66] and asked Judge Lance Walker, the federal judge hearing his lawsuit, to order a new election be held should he decline to hold ranked-choice voting unconstitutional.[67] Judge Walker ruled against Poliquin on the merits on December 13, rejecting all of his arguments.[68]

Poliquin appealed to the Court of Appeals in Boston and requested an order to prevent Golden from being certified as the winner, but that request was rejected.[65] On December 24, Poliquin dropped his lawsuit, allowing Golden to take the seat.[69][70][71][72] As a result, Poliquin became the first incumbent to lose the 2nd Congressional District since 1916, whereas Golden became the first member of Congress to be elected via ranked-choice voting. This also made New England's delegation to the House entirely Democratic for the first time since 2012.

Gov. Paul LePage, as one of his last acts in office, reluctantly initialed the certificate of election for Golden, adding the words "stolen election" to it to express his personal dislike of ranked-choice voting.[73][74]

Endorsements

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Jared Golden

National politicians

Local and statewide politicians

Individuals

Trade unions

Organizations

Media

Bruce Poliquin

National politicians

Local and statewide politicians

Organizations

Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin
of error 		RCV
round 		Bruce
Poliquin
(R) 		Jared
Golden
(D) 		Tiffany
Bond
(I) 		Will
Hoar
(I) 		Other Undecided
Emerson College[25] October 27–29, 2018 441 ± 4.9% – 46% 47% – – 3% 4%
NYT Upshot/Siena College[91] October 15–18, 2018 501 ± 4.8% – 41% 41% – – – 15%
Global Strategy Group (D)[92] October 9–12, 2018 400 ± 4.9% – 42% 48% – – – 10%
Pan Atlantic Research[26] October 1–7, 2018 251 – – 37% 37% 6% 3% – 17%
NYT Upshot/Siena College[93] September 12–14, 2018 506 ± 4.8% – 47% 42% – – – 11%
The Mellman Group (D-Golden)[94] September 4–7, 2018 – ± 4.9% – 46% 54% – – – –
The Mellman Group (D-Golden)[95] July 25–30, 2018 400 ± 4.9% Round 1 40% 39% 3% 1% – 16%
Round 2 48% 48% 4% – – –
Round 3 49% 51% – – –
Hypothetical polling
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin of
error 		Bruce
Poliquin (R) 		Lucas
St. Clair (D) 		Other Undecided
Global Strategy Group[54] October 2–5, 2017 400 ± 4.9% 44% 41% — —
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		Margin of
error 		Bruce
Poliquin (R) 		Generic
Democrat 		Other Undecided
PPP/Patriot Majority USA[96] February 12–13, 2018 628 ± 3.9% 44% 45% – 11%
PPP/Patriot Majority USA[97] October 5–8, 2017 951 ± 3.2% 44% 45% – 11%

Predictions

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Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[98] Tossup October 3, 2018
Inside Elections[99] Tossup September 28, 2018
Sabato's Crystal Ball[100] Lean D (flip) November 5, 2018
Daily Kos[101] Tossup September 28, 2018
Fox News[102] Tossup September 21, 2018
CNN[103] Tossup October 2, 2018
RealClearPolitics[104] Tossup September 21, 2018
The New York Times[105] Tossup September 26, 2018
Politico[106] Tossup September 21, 2018

Debate

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2018 Maine's 2nd congressional district debate
No. Date Host Moderator Link Republican Democratic Independent Independent
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Bruce Poliquin Jared Golden Tiffany Bond Will Hoar
1 Oct. 16, 2018 WABI-TV
WAGM-TV
WMTW-TV 		[107] P P P P

Results

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Maine's 2nd congressional district, 2018 results[108]
Party Candidate Round 1 Round 2
Votes % Transfer Votes % (gross) % (net)
Democratic Jared Golden 132,013 45.6% + 10,427 142,440 49.18% 50.62%
Republican Bruce Poliquin (incumbent) 134,184 46.3% + 4,747 138,931 47.97% 49.38%
Independent Tiffany Bond 16,552 5.7% - 16,552 Eliminated
Independent Will Hoar 6,875 2.4% - 6,875 Eliminated
Total active votes 289,624 100% 281,371 100%
Exhausted ballots - +8,253 8,253 2.85%
Total votes 289,624 100% 289,624 100%
Democratic gain from Republican

% (gross) = percent of all valid votes cast (without eliminating the exhausted votes)
% (net) = percent of votes cast after eliminating the exhausted votes

Poliquin led on first preferences with 46.4% to Golden's 45.6% and 8.1% for the two independents. However, as no candidate had a majority of the votes, the votes cast for the two independents were redistributed between Poliquin and Golden (those that didn't give a preference for either of the candidates were exhausted) and Golden won the election. The reason both independents were eliminated in a single round, as opposed to only the 4th place candidate, was because of the mathematical impossibility of the 3rd place candidate moving into 2nd place even if they had received all of the 4th place candidate's redistributed votes.

Of the votes left in the count, Golden won with 50.62% of the vote to Poliquin's 49.38%. Including exhausted votes, the final count was Golden 49.2%, Poliquin 48.0%, and 2.8% exhausted.

The votes for the two independents were redistributed as follows: 44.5% went to Golden, 20.3% went to Poliquin, and 35.2% were exhausted votes (i.e., they didn't give a preference to either of the remaining candidates).

See also

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