1994 Maine gubernatorial election
November 8, 1994
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King: 20–30%
30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Brennan: 20–30% 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Collins: 20–30% 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% >90% Tie: 20–30% 30–40% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1994 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1994 to elect the governor of Maine. Incumbent Republican governor John McKernan was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. Independent candidate Angus King won the election.
King defeated Democratic nominee Joseph Brennan, a former governor and congressman, Republican nominee Susan Collins, a regional coordinator of the Small Business Administration and the former Deputy Treasurer of Massachusetts, and Green nominee Jonathan Carter, an environmentalist activist. This was the first election since 1974 in which Maine elected an independent governor. Both King and Collins have represented the state's delegation in the United States Senate since 2013.
Carter's 6.4% of the vote allowed the Maine Green Independent Party to be recognized as a political party by the state.