The candidates' positions on the president and his agenda will play a role in their campaigns, and foreshadow what the next administration in Maine will look like.

That's significantly lower than during presidential years but was higher than the past two, referendum-only elections in the state.

In Maine's latest statewide election, half of the absentee ballots cast and counted were returned by Democratic voters, more than twice the number by Republicans.

A total of 47% of registered voters cast ballots in the November election, the highest percentage for an off-year election in 15 years.

Maine's firebrand GOP state Rep. Laurel Libby says she won’t seek re-election and plans to create a conservative PAC to help re-elect Republican Sen. Susan Collins

At the congressional level, though, the 2nd District behaved differently, electing first Bruce Poliquin to succeed Democrat Mike Michaud, then Democrat Jared Golden. Golden consistently won reelection by winning over many Trump-LePage voters, but he also drew the ire of his own party time and time again.

The National Labor Relations Board notified Northern Maine Medical Center on Sept 15 that the registered nurses have asked that