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Source: The Bowdoin Orient

HJ YunGET OUT THE VOTE: Members of the nonpartisan Bowdoin Votes organize student transportation to the polls. Turnout among Bowdoin students was high in the midterm elections, where a "blue wave" took place nationwide. On Tuesday, Americans across the country voted in local, state and federal midterm elections. For the Bowdoin community, elections included candidates running for Brunswick’s school board, town council, Maine state representative and senator, Governor and U.S. Representative and Senator. Troy Jackson was declared the winner of the election after 30-year incumbent Sen. Susan Collins conceded early Wednesday morning. Rep. Chellie Pingree won reelection to Congress representing Maine’s first district, while her daughter, Hannah Pingree, was elected Governor.

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