Democratic Rep. Jared Golden came out ahead in the congressional race through Maine's ranked choice system, election officials said Friday. If the results stand it would be the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate.

After days of uploading ballots and data and running ranked-choice tabulation, Rep. Jared Golden has been declared the winner of the race for Maine's Second Congressional District U.S. House seat. During last week's election,

But the campaign for Republican Austin Theriault immediately requested a hand recount, meaning the winner likely won't be officially declared until December.

The ranked choice results in Maine’s Second Congressional District are expected to be finalized Friday evening.

We are getting closer to the ranked choice voting tabulation results for the second congressional district between Democratic Incumbent Jared Golden and Republican Candidate Austin Theriault.

The ranked-choice runoff tabulation in the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District is now in its third day.

It is well past Election Day and there is still no winner in the race for Maine's Second Congressional District.