Elections in Maine
Election results in Maine comprise voting for local, gubernatorial and federal public offices, members of the state legislature, as well as ballot measures.Maine is seen as a swing state, with unusually high support for independent candidates.While the governorship remains competitive, Republicans have held both houses of the state legislature simultaneously for only two years since 1974.After the act was passed in 2016, legislators voted for the suspension of the law until December 2021, thus making it inoperative until the 2022 United States elections.[11][12] The state's senate took legal action to attempt to disallow the petition, but the Maine Supreme Court issued a ruling enabling ranked choice voting to be used in the 2018 election.