# Republican Susan Collins falls in Maine stunner to Graham Platner swap-in Troy Jackson 

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/republican-susan-collins-falls-in-maine-stunner-to-graham-platner-swap-in-troy-jackson/
- Published: 2026-11-04T05:42:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T04:51:23+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/us-news/republican-susan-collins-falls-in-maine-stunner-to-graham-platner-swap-in-troy-jackson/
- Topics: Elections, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Troy Jackson defeated Susan Collins in Maine’s Senate race.
- Jackson won 52.7 per cent to Collins’s 47.2 per cent.
- The result is a major boost for Democrats in the Senate fight.

## Summary

Democrat Troy Jackson defeated Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine’s closely watched midterm election, ending her nearly 30-year Senate career. The result gives Democrats a significant win in a race that could affect Republicans’ effort to retain their narrow majority.

With about two-thirds of ballots counted, Jackson had 52.7 per cent of the vote to Collins’s 47.2 per cent. A former state Senate president and fifth-generation logger, Jackson was selected after original Democratic nominee Graham Platner withdrew in July following a woman’s allegation that he raped her in 2021. Collins, 73, highlighted her record of bipartisanship and disagreements with Donald Trump, while Jackson criticised her support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Campaign advertising spending topped an estimated $166 million, making the race the most expensive per capita of the cycle, according to the article.

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