United States Senate election in Maine, 2014

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United States Senate election in Maine, 2014
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  Sen Susan Collins official.jpg Shenna Bellows.jpg
Nominee Susan Collins Shenna Bellows
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 413,495 190,244
Percentage 68.46% 31.50%
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County Results
U.S. senator before election

Susan Collins
Republican

 Elected U.S. Senator

Susan Collins
Republican
Elections in Maine
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The 2014 United States Senate election in Maine took place on November 4, 2014. Incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has served in the position since 1997, ran for re-election to a fourth term in office.[1][2]

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Write-in candidates

  • Erick Bennett, conservative activist and director of the Maine Equal Rights Center (unenrolled as a Republican, see Campaign section)[5][6][7]

Declined

Campaign

Maine Republican Party Chairman Rick Bennett was critical of Erick Bennett's campaign, stating that he did not believe Erick would get the necessary signatures to get on the ballot. After making it clear the two men are not related, Rick felt that this would be due to Erick's views as expressed on his Facebook page. These included referring to U.S. Representative Mike Michaud as a "closet homo" and criticism of Nelson Mandela, comparing him to Stalin and Karl Marx.[10] Furthermore, Erick Bennett was convicted in 2003 of assaulting his wife, which was upheld by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, though he maintains his innocence.[11] Rick Bennett stated that Erick's views "do not represent the views of the Republican Party".[10]

Erick Bennett announced before the primary filing deadline on March 17 that he had left the Republican Party and would run as an independent.[5] Maine law, however, requires that an independent candidate must have not been in a political party by March 1 of the election year in order to run as an independent, meaning Bennett cannot legally run as such.[12] The Kennebec Journal has reported that Bennett is a write-in candidate for the Republican nomination.[7]

On April 3, 2014, Collins' campaign announced the joint endorsement of Bath Iron Works' labor unions, which the campaign claimed was the first time the unions issued a joint endorsement as well as the first time they endorsed a Republican candidate for federal office.[13]

Polling

Results

Republican primary results[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Susan Collins (Incumbent) 59,767 100
Total votes 59,767 100

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Results

Democratic primary results[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Shenna Bellows 65,085 100
Total votes 65,085 100

Independents

To qualify as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maine, a candidate needs to submit at least 4,000 valid signatures to the Secretary of State by June 1. Any independent candidate must not have been enrolled in a political party after March 1 of the year the election occurs.[19]

Former Republican candidate Erick Bennett announced just before the March 17 primary filing deadline that he had left the Republican Party and would run as an independent, but Maine law requires him to have unenrolled as a Republican by March 1 to do so. Therefore, he cannot legally run as an independent.[5][12]

Candidates

Declared

  • Erick Bennett, conservative activist and director of the Maine Equal Rights Center (unenrolled as a Republican, see Campaign section)[5]

Declined

General election

Background

Heading into the 2014 cycle, only 12 U.S. Senate elections had involved two major party female nominees in U.S. history.[21]

Candidates

Endorsements

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Susan
Collins (R)		 Shenna
Bellows (D)		 Other Undecided
Maine People's Resource Center October 31–November 2, 2014 906 ± 3.25% 57.4% 37.3% — 5.3%
Bangor Daily News/Ipsos October 23–29, 2014 488 ± 5.1% 64% 32% 2% 3%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 2014 1,177 ± 5% 54% 35% 0% 10%
Pan Atlantic SMS October 15–21, 2014 400 ± 4.9% 66.6% 27% — 6.5%
University of New Hampshire October 15–21, 2014 667 ± 3.8% 65% 30% — 4%
Bangor Daily News/Ipsos October 6–12, 2014 540 LV ± 4.8% 56% 31% 5%[43] 7%
903 RV ± 3.7% 53% 31% 7%[44] 10%
Pan Atlantic SMS September 23–29, 2014 400 ± 4.9% 68.1% 24.8% — 7.3%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 2014 1,531 ± 3% 57% 33% 1% 9%
University of New Hampshire September 18–25, 2014 482 ± 4.4% 59% 29% — 11%
Rasmussen Reports September 3–4, 2014 750 ± 4% 59% 31% 2% 7%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 2014 1,202 ± 4% 58% 26% 3% 12%
Public Policy Polling* August 16–18, 2014 679 ± 3.8% 57% 33% — 10%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 2014 1,356 ± 2.7% 63% 28% 2% 6%
University of New Hampshire June 12–18, 2014 527 ± 4.3% 72% 17% — 10%
Rasmussen Reports April 23–25, 2014 830 ± 3% 60% 24% 6% 9%
Public Policy Polling November 8–11, 2013 964 ± 3.2% 59% 20% — 22%
  • * Internal poll for Shenna Bellows campaign

Results

Maine's US Senate Election, 2014[45]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Susan Collins (Incumbent) 413,495 68.46
Democratic Shenna Bellows 190,244 31.50
Others 269 0.04
Total votes 604,008 100
Republican hold

See also

References

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