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1910 Maine gubernatorial election
← 1908 September 12, 1910 1912 →
 
Nominee Frederick W. Plaisted Bert M. Fernald
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 73,304 64,644
Percentage 52.01% 45.86%
Governor before election

Bert M. Fernald
Republican

Elected Governor

Frederick W. Plaisted
Democratic

The 1910 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 12, 1910.

Incumbent Republican Governor Bert M. Fernald was defeated for re-election by Democratic candidate Frederick W. Plaisted.

Plaisted was the first Democrat elected Governor of Maine since his father, Harris M. Plaisted, who won election as a Greenback-Democrat fusion candidate in 1880.

Results

1910 Maine gubernatorial election[1][2][3][4][5][a]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Frederick W. Plaisted 73,304 52.01%
Republican Bert M. Fernald (incumbent) 64,644 45.86%
Socialist Robert V. Hunter 1,641 1.16%
Prohibition James H. Ames 1,296 0.92%
Scattering 63 0.05%
Majority 8,660 6.15%
Turnout 140,948 100.00%
Democratic gain from Republican Swing

Notes

  1. ^ The Maine Senate Journal gives Plaisted's vote as 73,354, and scattering votes as 67.[6]

References

  1. ^ "ME Governor, 1910". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  2. ^ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 126–127. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
  3. ^ Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II. CQ Press. 2005. p. 1499. ISBN 978-1-56802-981-8. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  4. ^ Dubin, Michael J. (2010). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7864-4722-0.
  5. ^ Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual. Vol. No. 55. Portland, Maine: Portland Directory Company. 1924. p. 273. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  6. ^ "Legislative Record – Senate". Legislative Record of the Seventy-Fifth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1911 (PDF). p. 12.
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