2022 Maine gubernatorial election
The 2022 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Maine. Incumbent Democratic governor Janet Mills won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican nominee and former governor, Paul LePage. Neither candidate faced any primary opposition. An independent candidate, Sam Hunkler, received 2% of the vote, the lowest total for a third party or independent gubernatorial candidate in the state since 1982.
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| Registered | 1,145,052 ( 8.14 pp) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 59.47% ( 1.77 pp) | ||||||||||||||||
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Mills: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% LePage: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Tie: | |||||||||||||||||
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This was the first gubernatorial election in Maine since 1990 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president. With over 376,000 votes, Mills won more votes than any other gubernatorial candidate in Maine history, breaking her own record set four years earlier. Her 13-point margin of victory was the largest for a statewide Democratic candidate since George J. Mitchell won over 80% of the vote in the 1988 United States Senate election.
Mills's victory was also the largest for any gubernatorial candidate since incumbent Angus King won 59% of the vote in 1998.