| The Green Papers: Maine 2010 Midterm Election |
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Maine
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress Primary: Tuesday 8 June 2010 General Election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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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 | |||||
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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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• 15 March 2010: Does not appear on any list recently provided by recognized election authorities. |
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• 31 December 2009: Dropped out of the race for governor with intentions of running for the state Senate. |
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• Inactive |
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Democratic | former Department of Conservation Commissioner Patrick K. "Pat" McGowan | |||
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Democratic | state Senator Elizabeth H. "Libby" Mitchell | |||
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Democratic | John G. Richardson | |||
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Democratic | former Attorney General Glen Steven "Steve" Rowe | |||
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Democratic | Rosa W. Scarcelli | |||
• 15 March 2010: Does not appear on any list recently provided by recognized election authorities. |
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Republican | Steven W. "Steve" Abbott | |||
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Republican | William H. "Bill" Beardsley | |||
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Republican | Matthew C. "Matt" Jacobson | |||
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Republican | Waterville Mayor Paul R. LePage | |||
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Republican | state Senator S. Peter Mills | |||
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Republican | Leslie B. "Les" Otten | |||
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Republican | Bruce Poliquin | |||
• Inactive |
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• 15 March 2010: "I am announcing today that I am suspending my campaign for governor ... we fell short of the required 2,000 signatures from Green Independent Party members needed to put my name on the Party's primary ballot." |
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Independent | Samme "Sam" Bailey | |||
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Independent | Beverly Cooper-Pete | |||
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Independent; (Democratic) | Eliot Cutler | |||
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Independent | Augustus Edgerton | |||
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Independent | Alex Hammer | |||
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Independent | Sidney Selectman/Assessor John Whitcomb | |||
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Unenrolled | Christopher Cambron | |||
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Unenrolled | Kevin L. Scott | |||
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Unenrolled | J. Martin "Marty" Vachon • 23 February 2010: Switched from Republican to Unenrolled |
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| 111th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2008, 2010. 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: $245,044 |
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Republican | Dean Peter Scontras • FEC H8ME01179: $0 |
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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: $482,380 |
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Republican | Jason John Levesque • FEC H0ME02059: $116,307 |
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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. |