Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick and Surry votes overwhelmingly for Biden/Harris
Blue Hill voters enter the gymnasium of the Blue Hill Consolidated School, a little past noon Tuesday, November 3, to cast their ballots.
by Jeffrey B. Roth
In Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick and Surry, Democrat
Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris won 3,293 votes, compared to 1,817 votes
for Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
In Blue Hill, Biden/Harris received 1,310 votes; while
Trump/Pence, won 624 votes; in Brooklin, the tally was 426 for
Biden/Harris; and, 189 for Trump/Pence; Brooksville voters supported
Biden/Harris with 450 votes compared to 219 for Trump/Pence; in
Sedgwick, 511 votes were cast for Biden/Harris; and, 321 for
Trump/Pence; and, in Surry, Biden/Harris drew 596 votes and Trump/Pence
picked up 464 votes.
In the U.S. Senate race, voters of the
five towns favored Democrat Sara Gideon, over Republican incumbent Susan
Collins. In Blue Hill, Collins received 752 votes and Gideon won 1,083;
in Brooklin, it was 231 for Collins and 351 for Gideon; in Brooksville,
the tally was Collins 277 and 344 for Gideon; in Sedgwick, Collins won
255 and Gideon received 326 votes; and, in Surry, it was 545 for Collins
and 471 for Gideon.
In the race for the House of Representatives, District 2,
incumbent Democrat Jared Golden defeated his Republican opponent, Dale
Crafts. In Blue Hill, Crafts won 554 votes compared to 1,410 cast for
Golden; in Brooklin, the vote tally was 171 for Crafts and 447 for
Golden; in Brooksville, it was 183 for Crafts and 505 for Golden; in
Sedgwick, it was 291 for Crafts and 550 for Golden; and in Surry, it was
438 for Crafts and 654 for Golden.
In the County Registrar of Probate, incumbent Republican Juliette
Wilbur won the election against a Republican write-in candidate, Velma
Jordan, by a large margin.
In State House District 133, Democrat incumbent Sarah Pebworth ran
unopposed. She garnered a total of 4,442 votes for her re-election.
In Blue Hill, out of a total of 1,993 votes cast, 1,297 were by
absentee ballots; in Brooklin, 382 absentee ballots were received out of
632 total votes cast; in Brooksville, there were 697 total votes cast,
of which 412 were absentee; in Sedgwick, a total of 851 votes were cast,
which included 383 absentee ballots; and, in Surry, there were 583
absentee ballots received out of a total 1,106 votes cast.
