United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, 2018
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Both Maine seats to the United States House of Representatives |
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The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine will be held on November 6, 2018, to elect the two U.S. Representatives from the state of Maine, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections will coincide with elections to the United States Senate, a gubernatorial election, and various state and local elections.
These U.S. House elections are scheduled to be the first in Maine to be conducted with ranked choice voting, as opposed to a simple plurality, after Maine voters passed a citizen referendum approving the change in 2016. An advisory opinion by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court holding that ranked choice voting would be unconstitutional only affects state office elections, but some legislators seek to repeal the measure in full, leading to uncertainty about this election's format.
Chellie Pingree, the incumbent representative, was first elected in 2008, and in 2016 defeated Republican nominee Mark Holbrook with just under 58 percent of the vote.
Bruce Poliquin, the incumbent representative for the second district, defeated Democrat Emily Cain in the 2016 election in a rematch of the 2014 election where Poliquin was first elected.
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