Republican U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin won a narrow plurality of votes in his re-election bid in the Second Congressional District in Maine, but because he didn't get a majority of votes he could still lose in an unusual tiebreaker.
Voters who picked two independent candidates who got small percentages of the vote (5.7 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively) will decide between the two major-party candidates, through ranked choice.
Republican U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin won a narrow plurality of votes in his re-election bid in the Second Congressional District in Maine, but because he didn't get a majority of votes he could still lose in an unusual tiebreaker.
Voters who picked two independent candidates who got small percentages of the vote (5.7 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively) will decide between the two major-party candidates, through ranked choice.…
