Republicans failed to win a single U.S. House seat in New England this year, despite flipping several congressional seats across the country to retake the House:
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, speaks at a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. He won a third term on Thursday.
Bruce Poliquin, a Republican running for Congress in northern Maine, lost his bid on Thursday. He is pictured above speaking at a forum in Lewiston, Maine in October. But the only Republican in Congress from New England will remain Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate who won another six-year term in 2020. Democrats control the other 32 House and Senate seats in the region and swept every contested federal race this month.issue," according to Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library at Saint Anselm College.
Some New England Republicans were also hampered by the long shadow of former President Donald Trump, Levesque said. Trump lost every New England state in both 2016 and 2020 and has become deeply unpopular in many parts of the region.
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