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 re-election to a second term, defeating Democratic nominee Zak Ringelstein and Republican nominee Eric Brakey. 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". Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "Maine became the first state in the country Tuesday to pass ranked choice voting". Boston Globe. November 10, 2016. Archived from the original on November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. ^ "Maine Voters Overrule Their Leaders". The Atlantic. June 15, 2018. Archived from the original on June 22, 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.