Maine Democrat Declared Winner of Congressional Race

The Democrats picked up another seat in the House, this one in Maine, but it wasn’t enough to stop a Republican takeover of the 435-seat chamber with Republican incumbent Mike Garcia’s announced win in California late on Nov. 16.
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) was used in Maine on Nov. 16 to decide the race between incumbent Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Republican challenger Bruce Poliquin for the state’s 2nd Congressional District seat, the largest district east of the Mississippi River.
After three days of collecting, scanning, and tabulating the votes, Golden was declared the winner, dashing New England’s last hope of sending a Republican who ran in the Nov. 8 midterm elections to Washington….}