PORTLAND, Maine — Portland's mayoral race will be decided Wednesday in a ranked-choice runoff after none of the five candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote in the initial count.
Over the course of their campaigns, candidates Pious Ali, Justin Costa, Mark Dion, Dylan Pugh and Andrew Zarro put forth different proposals and ideas for how to tackle the issues facing Portland.
According to the final but unofficial results late Tuesday night, Dion leads with 8,832 votes, followed by Zarro with 5,897 votes (26%), Ali with 4,876 (21%), Costa with 1,757, and Pugh with 902 votes.
The city planned to help the ranked-choice voting tabulation Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. in the State of Maine room in City Hall.