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A number of cities and towns in Maine are holding elections on a variety of topics and issues on Tuesday, including school budgets.Maine's Total Coverage is tracking municipal election results in Androscoggin,
Tuesday is Election Day in many communities across the state with everything from school budgets to local races to referendum questions on ballots.
Thousands went to the polls in central Maine on Tuesday to vote on school budgets and local elected positions.
Maine voters will head to polling places across the state Tuesday to approve or reject local school budgets. Voters in many communities also will elect municipal and school officials or decide the fate of capital projects that could increase their taxes.
A bond project in Cape Elizabeth and the budget in Gorham are among the elections that are expected to be closely contested on Tuesday.
A political newcomer, Avery Seuter, earned the most votes in a four-way race for two seats on the Wells Select Board on June 10, 2025.
Camden residents have voted to remove a 200-year-old dam, marking the end of a controversy that divided the town.
Former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree, launched a bid for governor Tuesday.
Lawmakers have killed three bills requiring photo IDs to vote in Maine, but voters will get their say on one of them.
When poll workers opened the doors to Buxton Town Hall at 6 a.m., there were two voters waiting in line. A third arrived shortly after. It was a vastly different scene in November when dozens of people waited in a line that stretched down the sidewalk and around the side of the building.
Voting officials say they've never seen a demand like the one the Justice Department sent to Colorado last month.
Pingree joins a field of Democratic candidates that includes former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, and Angus King III.