Veteran District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau appears headed for a seventh straight term.
With 74 of the 77 towns in Knox, Waldo, Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties reporting, Republican Rushlau had 33,352 votes, while Democrat David Sinclair had 32,773 votes.
The three towns that the BDN did not have official results were Bowdoin, Prospect and Monhegan Island Plantation. Rushlau said he heard that he had received the most votes in Bowdoin. Prospect has 709 residents and Monhegan has 75, which makes it nearly impossible to overcome the incumbent’s margin.
Rushlau of Dresden is one of the state’s longest-serving elected prosecutors, having been appointed to the district attorney post in June 1993 by then-Gov. John McKernan, when William Anderson was appointed to a judicial post. Rushlau won a close election to the post in 1994, and he was re-elected in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Rushlau had previously served as an assistant district attorney in Androscoggin County and then Sagadahoc County beginning in 1981.
Sinclair, a Democrat, is completing his second consecutive three-year term on the Bath City Council. He’s run a private law practice in Bath for four years.
He said he returned to law school after 16 years of running a software development company and being a computer consultant.
Rushlau said Wednesday he would reserve comment until final results are available.
Sinclair said he was buoyed by returns but realizes the numbers were increasingly difficult for a win. He said he also was waiting for final results.
(Ed. note: Rushlau received six votes to Sinclair’s 34 on Monhegan, according to Town Clerk Lisa Brackett.)