With 46 percent of the state’s precincts reporting at 11 p.m., the Bangor Daily News projected five of the six bond questions would win passage. With almost equal vote totals at 11 p.m., Question 5 — which would benefit Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — remained too close to call.

The bonds come as the state has borrowed little in the last few years, mostly because of Gov. Paul LePage’s resistance to approve bonds. As the governor has that power, the outcome of the hotly contested race for governor this year also will have an influence on whether any borrowing that voters might approve Tuesday will be issued any time soon.

Each bond question generated little specific opposition in the lead-up to the campaign, but some opponents in the Legislature objected to the borrowing in general.

Bugs and agriculture

Question 2 asked voters to let the state borrow $8 million in order to build a new laboratory at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Orono to help those in the state’s agriculture industry diagnose plant and animal diseases.

Small business

Question 3 asked voters for two batches of borrowing for loan programs administered by the Finance Authority of Maine to help businesses acquire bank loans and to give more money to rural development agencies that, in turn, lend to small businesses.

Bar Harbor cancer lab

If the voters approve borrowing $10 million, The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has agreed to put up $11 million to build a new facility where its researchers hope to find genetic cures for cancer.

MDI Lab

The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory stands to benefit from approval of Question 5, which would borrow $3 million to help build a new laboratory and training facility near the laboratory in Salisbury Cove.

Culverts

Question 6 asked voters to approve $10 million, broken into $5.4 million to upgrade stream crossings and culverts, $4.2 million to replenish a revolving loan fund used to upgrade drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities and $400,000 to start a program to work around Maine wetlands.

Marine products

Question 7 asked voters for $7 million that could support researchers, seafood producers, community organizations and other businesses with connection to Maine’s marine industries, based on a competitive bidding process.

The borrowing would need to be matched by $7 million in private money.