| The Green Papers: Maine 2009 General Election |
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Maine
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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The state legislators who will meet over the two years from 2009 through 2010 will make up the 124th MAINE LEGISLATURE. (NOTE: the numbering of Maine's LEGISLATURES dates back to its Admission as a State in 1820: the Legislature beginning in 1821 and ending in 1822 was the 1st; each session was thereafter numbered consecutively on an annual basis (the legislators of both houses being elected for one-year terms) through the 59th, which ended in 1880; the 60th Legislature, the first for which both chambers were elected for two-year terms, was in session from 1881 thru 1882 and every Maine Legislature from then on has, therefore, been numbered on such a biennial basis). |
| U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
| Class 1 | Republican | Senator Olympia J. Snowe First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006 [also served in U.S. House-elected: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992] Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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| Class 2 | Republican | Senator Susan M. Collins First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002, 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2014 |
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| Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer, All Governors | |||||
| Democratic | Governor John Elias Baldacci First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006 Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election. Open Chair - At term limit |
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| Democratic | Donna J. Dion | ||||
| Democratic | state Representative Dawn Hill | ||||
| Democratic | Eriq Manson | ||||
| Democratic | state Senator Elizabeth "Libby" Mitchell | ||||
| Democratic | former Attorney General Steve Rowe | ||||
| Democratic | Rosa Scarcelli | ||||
| Democratic | Peter Truman | ||||
| Republican | Steve Abbott | ||||
| Republican | Matthew C. "Matt" Jacobson | ||||
| Republican | Waterville Mayor Paul R. LePage | ||||
| Republican | state Senator Peter Mills | ||||
| Republican | Leslie B. "Les" Otten | ||||
| Republican | Bruce Poliquin | ||||
| Republican | Marty Vachon | ||||
| Green | Patrick Quinlan | ||||
| Green | Lynne Williams | ||||
| Independent | Samme "Sam" Bailey | ||||
| Independent | Beverly Cooper-Pete | ||||
| Independent; (Democratic) | Eliot Cutler | ||||
| Independent | Augustus Edgerton | ||||
| Independent | Alex Hammer | ||||
| Independent | Sidney Selectman/Assessor John Whitcomb | ||||
| 111th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House | |||||
| Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 2 Democratic (2 Undetermined) | |||||
| CD 1 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Chellie M. Pingree First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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| Democratic | Congressman Chellie M. Pingree FEC H8ME01120: $217,333 |
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| CD 2 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Michael H. Michaud First elected: 2002 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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| Democratic | Congressman Michael H. Michaud FEC H2ME02097: $393,711 |
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| Republican | Jason John Levesque FEC H0ME02059: $94,593 |
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| Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |