1982 Maine gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1982 Maine gubernatorial election Maine presidential no 1978 Maine gubernatorial election 1978 1986 Maine gubernatorial election 1986 November 2, 1982 150x150px Image:Joseph Brennan desk portrait (cropped).jpg Joseph Brennan Democratic Party (United States) 281,066 61.91% Image:Defense.gov News Photo 970912-A-3569D-001 (cropped).jpg Charles Cragin Republican Party (United States) 172,949 38.09% 280px County results 280px Municipality results Brennan: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Cragin: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90% Tie: #D2B1D9 40–50% #AE8BB1 50% Governor Joseph Brennan Democratic Party (United States) Joseph Brennan Democratic Party (United States) The 1982 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan defeated Republican challenger Charles R. Cragin. Brennan defeated Cragin, winning his re-election by the highest percent margin in more than thirty years. Brennan would be challenged in the Democratic primary by Lewiston state representative Georgette Berube, but would easily dispatch her. Cragin defeated Falmouth state representative Sherry Huber and Waterville state senator Richard Pierce in the GOP primary. Berube and Huber would be the first women to ever run for Governor of Maine. The 281,066 votes received by Brennan represented the single highest vote total for governor in Maine history, until the election of Governor Paul LePage in 2014. Brennan's coattails allowed Democrats to win the first trifecta in the state since 1913. This was the first time a gubernatorial candidate won a majority of the vote since 1970, and the last time a gubernatorial candidate would win a majority of the vote until 1998. This was the only Maine gubernatorial election between 1970 and 2022 that no third-party or independent candidate received at least 5% of the vote. Democratic primary Candidates Georgette Berube, member of the State House, of Lewiston Joseph E. Brennan, incumbent Governor, of Portland Results Democratic primary resultshttps://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Elections/Returns/1982/19820608/elec_19820608c.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20241123215952/https://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Elections/Returns/1982/19820608/elec_19820608c.pdf 2024-11-23 Maine Primary Election Results - June 8, 1982 Maine.gov Joseph E. Brennan Democratic Party (United States) 56,990 76.80 Georgette Berube Democratic Party (United States) 17,219 23.20 74,209 100.00 Republican primary Candidates Charles Cragin, attorney and candidate for Governor in 1978, of Falmouth Sherry Huber, member of the State House, of Falmouth Richard Pierce, member of the State Senate, of Waterville Results Republican primary results Charles Cragin Republican Party (United States) 32,235 38.02 Sherry Huber Republican Party (United States) 27,739 32.71 Richard Pierce Republican Party (United States) 24,820 29.27 84,794 100.00 General election results Brennan won reelection in a landslide, carrying all 16 counties with at least 50% of the vote. This was the first election in which a Democrat carried all 16 counties in Maine since the 1964 presidential election, and the first — and to date, only — time in history a Democratic candidate would win all 16 counties in a gubernatorial election.1982 Maine gubernatorial election results Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II CQ Press 2005 1497–1499 https://archive.org/details/guidetouselectio00cqpr/page/1497 978-1-56802-981-8 2009-05-06 Democratic Party (United States) Joseph Brennan (Incumbent) 281,066 61.91% - Republican Party (United States) Charles Cragin 172,949 38.09% - 108,117 23.81% Democratic Party (United States) Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Hancock (largest municipality: Ellsworth) Knox (largest municipality: Rockland) Lincoln (largest city: Waldoboro) Piscataquis (largest municipality: Dover-Foxcroft) Waldo (largest city: Belfast) Notes expanded Gubernatorial 1982 Maine