Maine Voter Guide 2026

Hannah Pingree is the Democratic nominee for Maine governor in 2026, a former speaker of the Maine House and former director of the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future. Her campaign emphasizes affordability, housing, climate resilience, health care, child care, workforce development, and continuing Democratic executive leadership after Janet Mills.

Priorities: Address affordability, housing, and child care · Support climate resilience and Maine's coastal economy · Use legislative and executive-policy experience to manage state government

Bobby Charles is the Republican nominee for Maine governor in 2026, a lawyer, author, and former U.S. assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush. His campaign emphasizes public safety, lower taxes, energy costs, education, state management, and a Republican change message after eight years of Democratic control.

Priorities: Lower taxes, costs, and regulatory burdens · Strengthen public safety and state management · Promote energy affordability and education accountability

Susan Collins is Maine's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026. First elected in 1996, she is running on seniority, bipartisan dealmaking, federal funding for Maine, defense and shipbuilding, health care, small business, and her long record as a moderate Republican senator.

Priorities: Use Senate seniority to deliver federal funding for Maine · Support defense, shipbuilding, health care, and small businesses · Emphasize bipartisan work and moderate Republican leadership

Troy Jackson is the new Democratic nominee for Maine's 2026 U.S. Senate race, chosen at a special July 25 nominating convention after Graham Platner suspended his campaign and withdrew from the ballot, per the Maine Democratic Party and NPR reporting. A fifth-generation logger from Allagash and president of the Maine Senate from 2018 to 2024, Jackson challenges Senator Susan Collins in November on working-family cost

Priorities: Lower costs for working families and rural Maine · Health care and prescription drug affordability · Take on corporate power and protect reproductive freedom