A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount.

The hand recount in Maine’s hotly contested Second Congressional District race won't happen until after Thanksgiving. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says the recount will begin on Monday, December 2.

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate.

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden won the ranked choice vote with 50.35% for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which election officials determined Friday through a tabulation process that took four days.

Maine is one of a handful of states that use Ranked Choice Voting, where voters rank in order of preference who they would like to see win. In this case, when the bottom candidates were eliminated, their votes were reallocated to their second and third choices until a remaining candidate received over 50 percent.

PORTLAND (WGME) -- A Maine lawmaker is looking to change the rules when it comes to blank ballots to avoid a situation the ranked choice tabulation in Maine's Second District this year.

Representative Jared Golden, a three-term Democrat, defeated Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver, in one of a handful of districts held by Democrats that Donald J. Trump won in 2020.

The ranked choice results in Maine’s Second Congressional District are expected to be finalized Friday evening.

Recounts for a dozen close races continue this week, including the 2nd Congressional District race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and state Rep. Austin Theriault.

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U.S. Rep. Jared Golden was declared the winner of the ranked-choice tabulation last Friday, but his challenger, Maine Rep. Austin Theriault, had formally requested a recount before state election officials announced ranked-choice counting would be needed to decide the winner.

According to the recount results, Lanigan received 2,478 votes while Kidder received 2,477 votes. Election officials said 424 ballots were still deemed to be blank following the recount.