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9:24 p.m.

With 11% of votes counted, Mills leads with 58.5%, and LePage trails behind with 39.7%. Hunkler has 1.9% of the vote.

Poliquin is at 15,005 votes with Golden falling behind with 12,959 votes.

9 p.m.

LePage leads with 54.8% of the votes, while Mills holds 43.1%. Hunkler trails behind with 2.1%. Less than 25% of all votes have been counted.

8:25 p.m.

1,385 votes have been counted. Poliquin leads with 761 votes. Golden trails behind with 540 votes, and Bond has 84 votes.

8 p.m.

Polls are now officially closed. According to Orono town clerk Shelly Crosby, roughly 3,600 people voted in person at the field house.

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“It’s always a good day to get out and vote. I feel like I’m
doing something,” said Ryan Shetzline, a third-year electrical engineering student.

5:15 p.m.

At least 1,000 Orono residents have voted at the New Balance Field House and Memorial Gym.

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“I’ve been up super early and the energy is good in the polling
locations. Everyone is here. I’m feeling hopeful and I see a lot of people coming out to vote,” Jordyn Miller, a third-year UMaine student, said.

3 p.m.

Polls in Orono opened at 7 a.m. to the New Balance Field House and Memorial Gym.

As of 1:40 p.m. 235,164 absentee ballots have been returned in Maine. The Independent Voter Project puts the total number of registered voters in Maine at 1,063,383, putting the percentage of voters who have voted by absentee ballot at 22.12%.

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Sonja Birthisel, member of the Orono Town Council and director of the Wilson Center, drove her 1949 Greyhound bus bedazzled with chalk and car paint on Nov. 8, 2022, to encourage college students to vote.