Thomas Richard Carper is an American politician and former military officer serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware,having held the seat since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Carper served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993 and was the 71st governor of Delaware from 1993 to 2001.
Michael Avery Ross is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 2001 to 2013 and was his party's nominee for governor of Arkansas in 2014. He is currently the last Democrat to have represented Arkansas in the House of Representatives. He was also a member of the Arkansas Senate from 1991 to 2001,a member of the Nevada County Quorum Court from 1983 to 1985,and a small business owner.
Michael Herman Michaud is an American businessman and politician from Maine. Michaud served as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The primarily rural district comprises nearly 80% of the state by area and includes the cities of Lewiston,Auburn,Bangor,Presque Isle,and Ellsworth. It is the largest Congressional district by area east of the Mississippi River.
Thomas Hodge Allen is an American author and former politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maine's 1st congressional district,and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 against Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins. Allen lost to Collins 61.5% to 38.5%.
John Elias Baldacci is an American politician who served as the 73rd Governor of Maine from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat,he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.
Angus Stanley King Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maine since 2013. A political independent,he served as the 72nd governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003.
Mark Hamilton Schauer is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for Michigan's 7th congressional district from 2009 to 2011.
James Churchill Oliver was a U.S. Representative from Maine. He served three consecutive congressional terms as a Republican from 1937 to 1943,then later served a fourth term as a Democrat from 1959 to 1961.
Travis Wayne Childers is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 2008 to 2011. The district included much of the northern portion of the state including New Albany,Columbus,Oxford,Southaven,and Tupelo. A member of the Democratic Party,Childers previously served as Chancery Clerk of Prentiss County from 1992 until his election to Congress. On March 1,2014,Childers announced that he was running for the United States Senate. He won his party's nomination for the Senate seat in the Democratic primary on June 3. He lost the general election to Republican incumbent Thad Cochran.
The 1970 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 3,1970. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Maine Kenneth M. Curtis chose to seek re-election. Curtis won a landslide victory in the Democratic primary. His general election opponent was Maine Attorney General James Erwin,the Republican nominee. Erwin had also easily won his respective party primary and received the Republican nomination for governor. Curtis narrowly defeated Erwin,in one of the tightest elections in Maine history –the final margin of victory was a mere 890 votes. Curtis received 163,138 votes (50.14%),while Erwin had 162,248 votes (49.86%).
Froilan Cruz "Lang" Tenorio was a Northern Mariana Islander politician who was the fourth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. Elected in 1993,he served one term from January 10,1994 to January 12,1998. During his governorship and most of his political career,Tenorio was a member of the Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands,which was not then affiliated with the American Democratic Party. However,he later switched his affiliation to the Reform Party,a party he founded. Froilan Tenorio would later switch back to the Democrat in 2002 and then to the Covenant Party in 2009.
Paul Richard LePage is an American businessman and politician who served as the 74th governor of Maine from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the mayor of Waterville,Maine,from 2004 to 2011 and as a city councilor for Waterville from 1998 to 2002.
Bruce Lee Poliquin is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Maine's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. Poliquin was first elected to Congress in the 2014 general election. From 2010 to 2012,he was the 49th Maine State Treasurer. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2012,finishing second in the primary election. In January 2017,at the start of the 115th Congress,Poliquin was the sole Republican representing a U.S. House district in New England.
Shenna Lee Bellows is an American politician and a non-profit executive director. On December 2,2020,the Maine Legislature elected her to serve as the 50th Maine secretary of state. She was executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine between 2018 and 2020,and she served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine between 2005 and 2013.
Eric Brakey is the current Executive Director of the Free State Project,and an American politician,who served as a Maine state senator from 2014 to 2018,and again from 2022 to 2024.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 6,2018,alongside a gubernatorial election,U.S. House elections,and other state and local elections. Incumbent independent Senator Angus King won re-election to a second term,defeating Democratic nominee Zak Ringelstein and Republican nominee Eric Brakey. This was one of two independent-held Senate seats up for election in a state that Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election.
Maine Question 4,formally An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage,is a citizen-initiated referendum question that appeared on the Maine November 8,2016 statewide ballot. It sought to increase Maine's minimum wage from $7.50 per hour to $12 an hour by 2020,as well as increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees gradually to the same level by 2024. It would also index increases after 2024 to inflation. As the Maine Legislature and Governor Paul LePage declined to enact the proposal as written,it appeared on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States,Maine's two U.S. House seats,the Legislature,other statewide ballot questions,and various local elections. Efforts to place a competing,more moderate proposal alongside the citizen-initiated bill were unsuccessful.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine were held on November 6,2018,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of Maine,one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
Maine Question 1 is a citizen-initiated referendum that appeared on the November 6,2018 statewide ballot. It sought to implement a tax on higher incomes in Maine to fund in-home health care services for elderly and disabled Mainers,as well as to create a government board to administer the funds. The vote coincided with general elections for governor,U.S. Senate,U.S. House,the Maine Legislature,and other local elections. It qualified for the ballot due to supporters collecting signatures from registered Maine voters. It was defeated 62.86% to 37.14%.
The 1880 Maine gubernatorial election was held on September 13,1880 for a two-year term that was scheduled to run from January 13,1881 to January 3,1883. The contest resulted in the victory of Greenback and Democratic nominee Harris M. Plaisted,who narrowly defeated incumbent Republican governor Daniel F. Davis,one of the few times Republicans lost control of the governorship between the founding of the party in the 1850s and the Great Depression.
