Pingree and Charles Will Face Off for Maine Governor

“Hannah Pingree, a former Maine House speaker who later worked on policy initiatives for Gov. Janet Mills and won her endorsement, won the state’s Democratic nomination for governor after a ranked-choice runoff, state officials said early Friday. She will face Bobby Charles, a conservative Republican and former State Department official,” the New York Times reports.

“The runoff, a feature of Maine’s ranked-choice voting system, was necessary because none of the candidates in either primary received more than 50 percent of the vote.”