The 1982 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982.
 Incumbent Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan defeated Republican challenger Charles R. Cragin.
 Brennan defeated Cragin, winning his re-election by the largest number of votes in the state's history, and the highest percent margin in more than thirty years.
 The 281,066 votes received by Brennan represented the single highest vote total for Governor in Maine history, until the re-election of Governor Paul LePage in 2014.
William Beardsley (born July 4, 1942) is an American politician from Maine.
 A resident of Ellsworth, Maine, Beardsley served as the Commissioner of Conservation in the cabinet of Maine Governor Paul LePage from 2011 to August 2012 after serving from 1987-2009 as the President/CEO of Husson University in Bangor, Maine.
Eliot Cutler (born July 29, 1946) is an American lawyer who was an Independent candidate in Maine's 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial races.
Maine Question 1, formally An Act to Legalize Marijuana, is a citizen-initiated referendum question that qualified for the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot.
 It was qualified for the ballot after a Maine Superior Court judge ordered that petitions rejected by the Maine Secretary of State be reconsidered.
 The proposal seeks to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Maine for those over the age of 21, and institute a 10 percent tax on its sale.
 As the Maine Legislature and Governor Paul LePage declined to enact the proposal as written, it will appear on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States, Maine's two U.S. House seats, the Legislature, other statewide ballot questions, and various local elections.
Paul Richard LePage ( ; born October 9, 1948) is an American businessman and politician who is the 74th and current Governor of Maine.
 Born in Lewiston, LePage grew up with seventeen siblings.
 After some initial difficulty entering college due to speaking French as his first language, he succeeded in obtaining a Bachelor of Science in business administration in finance and accounting from Husson College, later earning a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maine.
 LePage worked for a lumber company in New Brunswick, Canada, from 1972 to 1979 and then for Scott Paper in Winslow, Maine.
 He later founded the business consulting firm LePage & Kasevich Inc and in 1996, he became general manager of Marden's Surplus and Salvage, a Maine-based discount store chain.
H. Sawin Millett Jr. (born October 8, 1937) is a Maine politician.
 A Republican, Millett served as the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services in the administration of Governor Paul LePage from 2011 to 2014.
 In January 2011, Millett was unanimously approved as Commissioner by the Maine Senate, with key Democrats also endorsing his appointment.
 In December 2011, a poll of policymakers by the Bangor Daily News ranked Millett as the ninth most influential person in Maine politics.
Chandler E. Woodcock is an American politician from Maine.
 Woodcock served as a Republican State Senator from Franklin County from 2000 to 2006.
 He was the Republican candidate for Governor of Maine in 2006.
 He won a close primary election by 3% on June 13, 2006, against David F. Emery and Peter Mills.
 He faced Democrat incumbent John E. Baldacci in the November 7 election.
 He lost by about 42,000 votes.
 In 2011, Republican Governor Paul LePage nominated Woodcock to be Maine's Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and he took office in the spring of that year.
Matthea "Mattie" E. L. Daughtry is a Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives for the 49th District.
 Representative Daughtry was first elected in 2012.
 Daughtry is a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.
 She also serves as the House Chair of the Maine Commission on College Affordability and College Completion.
 On June 12, 2015 Governor Paul LePage vetoed a bill sponsored by Daughtry, LD 537 "An Act To Prohibit Standardized Testing of Children Before Third Grade", as part of his pledge to veto every bill sponsored by a Democrat until they agree to the elimination of the Maine income tax.
 Two days later, the Senate unanimously overruled Governor LePage's veto.
Stephen L. Bowen (born June 6, 1969) is an American politician and educator from Maine.
 A Republican, Bowen served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2002 to 2006, representing Camden and his residence in Rockport.
 Prior to serving in the Legislature, Bowen taught social studies for 10 years.
 After leaving elected office, Bowen directed the Center for Education Excellence at the Maine Heritage Policy Center.
 During the 2010 gubernatorial election, Bowen served as then candidate Paul LePage's policy adviser on education, government reform, budget and marine resources policy.
 LePage won the 2010 election and, in February 2011, newly elected Governor Paul LePage appointed Bowen Commissioner of Education.
 In August 2013, Bowen resigned as Education Commissioner effective September 12.
 He did so in order to take a position with the national Council of Chief State School Officers.
Elizabeth H. "Libby" Mitchell (born Elizabeth Anne Harrill on June 22, 1940) is an American politician from Maine.
 Mitchell, a Democrat, represented part of Kennebec County in the Maine Senate from 2004 to 2010.
 Mitchell was also the Democrats' 2010 candidate for the office of Governor of Maine.
 She finished in third place behind Republican Paul LePage and unenrolled attorney Eliot Cutler.
 She is the only woman in United States history to have been elected as both speaker of her state house of representatives and president of her state senate.

Question: What county was represented by the politician who finished behind Paul LePage and a lawyer in the Maine race for Governor in 2010?
Answer: Kennebec County