LePage Leads Dunlap in Maine House District 2 Election

Republican Paul LePage holds the lead over Democrat Matthew Dunlap in the 2026 general election for Maine House District 2, according to NBC News results published November 3. LePage has secured 49.9% of the reported vote, compared with Dunlap's 48.3%, while independent write-in candidate Gregory Ward remains at 0.0%.

The reported results list 341,281 votes in total. Despite the narrow margin between the leading candidates, Dunlap would need to capture 84.7% of the remaining ballots to catch or surpass LePage, according to NBC News' election analysis.

LePage's advantage also appears across several township-level results published in the district breakdown. His reported share ranges from 58.1% to 69.6% in the displayed local results, while Dunlap's share ranges from 27.8% to 39.7%.

Gregory Ward, running as an independent write-in candidate, recorded between 0.0% and 0.3% in the displayed township results. The available figures show that the contest is primarily between LePage and Dunlap.

NBC News also reported that the District 2 race has shifted 7.65 percentage points toward Democrats compared with the 2024 presidential election. The comparison measures changes in the political balance across the district rather than the candidates' individual vote totals.

The township breakdown includes communities across Maine, with reporting units such as Abbot, Addison, Alexander and Allagash. The results page provides local voting figures and comparisons where enough expected ballots have been counted to calculate a shift.

According to the published reporting-unit data, Addison had reported 95% of its expected vote, with a 20.2-point Republican advantage in the comparison baseline and an 11.53-point shift toward Democrats. Alexander also reported 95% of its expected vote, with a Democratic shift of 8.34 points.

Allagash had reported 95% of its expected vote and recorded a 2.67-point shift toward Democrats, despite maintaining a Republican advantage in the comparison. Abbot had reported 82.1% of its expected vote, but the displayed comparison figures were not yet available.

The election results remain subject to the completion of vote reporting, with the published figures showing LePage ahead and Dunlap facing a substantial remaining-vote requirement to overtake him.