Susan Collins
Electoral history
Table:
United States Senate election in Maine, 2008

Party

Candidate

Votes

%

±%

Republican

Susan Collins (incumbent)

444,587

61.5%

Democratic

Tom Allen

278,651

38.5%

Taking into account the following table labelled Susan Collins, section Electoral history, respond to this question in a short sentence: What percentage of votes did each candidate receive? Output only the correct answer as {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: Susan Collins of Republican received with 61.5% and Tom Allen of Democratic with 38.5%.