The Bangor Daily News reports:
Gov. Janet Mills held off a late surge from former Gov. Paul LePage to win a second Blaine House term in a Tuesday election that was the most expensive of its kind in Maine history.
The Democratic governor bested her predecessor in their political rivalry stretching back into LePage’s eight-year tenure as governor.
Mills served as attorney general for six of them and won the 2018 election to succeed the Republican by running to overturn much of his legacy. Her refrain this year was that Maine “won’t go back” to LePage after his divisive tenure.
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Janet Mills had 53.6 percent of votes to LePage’s 44.3 percent when the BDN and Decision Desk HQ called the race at 11:47 p.m. Tuesday. https://t.co/2ZqYo9E3ap #mepolitics
— Bangor Daily News (@bangordailynews) November 9, 2022