Bruce Poliquin

Bruce Poliquin (2015)

Bruce Lee Poliquin (* 1. November 1953 in Waterville , Maine ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2015 to 2019, he represented Maine's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Bruce Poliquin graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and then studied at Harvard University until 1976 . Then he worked as a private businessman.

In 2010, Poliquin applied unsuccessfully to be nominated for governor of Maine. Between 2010 and 2012 he was State Treasurer as his state's Treasury Secretary. In 2012, his first candidacy for Congress failed .

In the 2014 election , Poliquin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Maine's second congressional constituency in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Mike Michaud , who ran unsuccessfully for governor, on January 3, 2015 . He won with 47 to 42 percent of the vote against the Democratic State Senator Emily Cain , with an eleven percent share going to the independent applicant Blaine Richardson. It was confirmed in 2016 .

In the 2018 election, he was defeated by his Democratic rival candidate Jared Golden . Poliquin had initially led by 2000 votes ahead of Golden after the first preference in the election, but since no applicant had achieved an absolute majority of 50 percent of the votes, the instant run-off voting was carried out for the first time in the United States : The voters had noted her second preference on the ballot papers, which gave Goldens a lead of 50.5 to 49.5 percent of the vote. Poliquin sued against the evaluation of the second preferences; this electoral system is against the constitution. On December 13, 2018, Federal Judge Lance Walker finally dismissed the lawsuit, so that Poliquin resigned at the end of the 115th Congress on January 3, 2019.

Web links

• Bruce Poliquin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Bruce Poliquin on Vote Smart (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Poliquin wins Maine 2nd District seat. In: WMTW.com , November 5, 2014.
2. ↑ Steve Mistler: Federal Judge Denies Poliquin's Challenge To Maine's Ranked-Choice Voting Law. In: Maine Public Radio , December 13, 2018.