WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage has won re-election, CBS projected on Tuesday, retaining his seat in a three-way race against six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Michael Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler.
LePage, 66, a former millworker, is an outspoken Tea Party-backed conservative who was considered one of the most vulnerable governors in the country when the campaign began. He won by a narrow margin in 2010 in another three-way race in which Cutler placed second.
(Reporting by Michael Flaherty; Editing by Peter Cooney)