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

The chair of a Maine school board outlined Tuesday how her district can resist deportation efforts, referencing the outcome of the presidential election.

In November 1819, the former president said in a letter that he found the proposed state constitution was marked with wisdom at every point with one exception.

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.

Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has emerged victorious after the state conducted its ranked choice runoff for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.

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, Maine — 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.

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

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Maine on Friday. Golden is one of just a handful of Democratic House members who represents a district that Republican Donald Trump carried in 2020,

The ranked choice vote tabulation went on for several days after neither candidate surpassed 50 percent of first-place votes on Election Day.

Democrat Jared Golden wins reelection to U.S. House in Maine's 2nd Congressional District.

Two weeks after the Presidential Election, results are still up in the air across the state for many different positions.