{
  "id": 18346504,
  "title": "Race for open Golden House seat in Maine heads to ranked-choice voting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/race-for-open-golden-house-seat-in-maine-heads-to-ranked-choice-voting",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T17:33:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6201480-maine-house-race-ranked-choice-voting/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The race for the Maine House seat represented by outgoing Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) is headed to ranked-choice voting, the Maine Secretary of State’s office announced on Thursday. In the first round of votes, Republican Paul LePage edged out Democrat Matt Dunlap with nearly 50 percent the initial vote to the Democrat's 48 percent. But...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}