Eleven races for Maine Legislature will be recounted

Eleven legislative races from the Nov. 5 election will be recounted, per requests from the losing candidates.

Maine law does not require recounts, but candidates can request one. Candidates are allowed to request a recount without having to pay a deposit if the races are very close — 1% or less of the apparent margin of victory. Wednesday marked the final day a recount in a non-ranked-choice-voting race could be requested.

Of the recounts requested, two were for state Senate races — Senate districts 8 and 15 — and nine were for Maine House of Representative races: House districts 96, 98, 81, 58, 75, 52, 44, 142 and 141.

Only two of the requested recounts had a preliminary vote differential that exceeded 1%: House District 44, in which incumbent William Pluecker defeated Ray Thombs by 7.1%, and House District 142, in which incumbent Anne-Marie Mastraccio defeated challenger Amy Bell by 1.68%.

During the recount process, representatives for each candidate along with department staff will manually review each paper ballot. They are open, public proceedings.




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