QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Angel Loredo after voting Tuesday morning at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Donald Trump was elected president in a surprisingly decisive victory. Although Vice President Kamala Harris captured three of Maine’s four electoral votes, Trump was on track to win the country’s popular vote for the first time in his three campaigns.
Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race still hasn’t been decided. The race between U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and state Rep. Austin Theriault is one of a handful of pivotal races with a chance to influence control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Sen. Angus King is leading his three challengers. But with much of the vote yet to be counted early Wednesday morning, it’s unclear whether ranked-choice voting will be needed to decide the four-way race.
Mainers overwhelmingly passed campaign finance reform. But Question 1 may never become law since it likely will face legal roadblocks.
See all the results so far in Maine’s elections. Plus, check on results from around the country and in Maine’s referendums.
In other election news:
- Analysis: Trump wins decisive victory in a deeply divided nation
- Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate for first time in four years
- U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree easily won a ninth term
- Maine appeared poised for record turnout during Tuesday’s election
- A Republican lawmaker facing domestic violence allegations lost his reelection bid
- A Bangor city councilor won a seat on the Penobscot County Commission
- Two incumbents were reelected to the Bangor School Committee
- Brewer voters reelected two incumbents to City Council
- Hermon voters elected James Stubbs to School Committee
- Orono voters elected a newcomer to Town Council
- An Aroostook County town may have violated state law by asking voters for ID
- Bar Harbor voters rejected a proposal to relax cruise ship limits
- An incumbent and a newcomer were elected to the Ellsworth City Council
- Three incumbents on the Belfast City Council won reelection
- Rockland’s mayor won her reelection bid to City Council
- Old Orchard Beach passed Maine’s first rent control law for mobile home parks
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Schools across Maine placed on lockdown over hoax shooting threats
- 2 John Bapst administrators ‘stepped away’ from roles unexpectedly
- Gritty McDuff’s Brew Pub in Freeport to close after 30-year run
- Road worker injured after tractor trailer hits vehicle in central Maine
- Regional Maine field hockey championships are on the line Wednesday
- Why basketball star Bailey Breen chose UMaine despite 25 scholarship offers
- Analysis: UMaine power play is thriving thanks to player’s net-front presence
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“You might not like the results of Tuesday’s election. You might not even have the full results right away. It won’t be foul play. It won’t be a conspiracy. It will be democracy.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Maine’s midcoast antiques corridor boasts fascinating finds, from snowshoes and typewriters to Persian rugs, 16th-century furniture and a portrait of the Mona Lisa smoking a cigar.
Use your yard waste to make an ancient, multipurpose “dead hedge.” These Bronze Age cousins of traditional English hedgerows were once commonly made by people in Maine.
When you go up, you must come down. That’s the lesson that Ron Chase experienced on a recent mountain biking expedition in the Carrabassett Valley.