ROCKLAND, Maine — The race between veteran district attorney Geoffrey Rushlau and challenger David Sinclair was still too close to call on Wednesday afternoon.
With 70 of the 77 towns in Knox, Waldo, Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties reporting, Republican Rushlau had 31,694 votes while Democrat Sinclair had 31,227.
Most of the towns that have yet to report are in Waldo County, where power outages remain from this past weekend’s snowstorm.
Rushlau, of Dresden, is one of the state’s longest-serving elected prosecutors, having been appointed to the district attorney post in June 1993 by then-Gov. John McKernan, when William Anderson was appointed to a judicial post. Rushlau won a close election to the post in 1994, and was re-elected 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Rushlau had previously served as an assistant district attorney in Androscoggin County and then Sagadahoc County beginning in 1981.
Sinclair, a Democrat, is completing his second consecutive three-year term on the Bath City Council. He’s run a private law practice in Bath for four years.
He said he returned to law school after 16 years of running a software development company and being a computer consultant.
Rushlau said Wednesday he would reserve comment until final results are available.
A message left Wednesday for Sinclair was not immediately returned.