Maine

Avangrid Inc. is the owner of Central Maine Power, and Central Maine Power is the largest electric utility in the state of Maine.

An emergency heating assistance program in Maine typically begins on November 1 each year and provides assistance to about 7,000 Maine households annually.

Independent U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine caucuses with the Senate Democrats.

In 48 U.S. states, presidential electors are selected to cast their electoral votes for the candidate who won that state's popular vote, while Maine and Nebraska allocate some electoral votes based on congressional district results and others based on the statewide result.

Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan are U.S. Senators from New Hampshire who previously served as governors of New Hampshire; Angus King is a U.S. Senator from Maine who previously served as governor of Maine.

Maine's 'yellow flag' law requires police to take a person deemed potentially dangerous into protective custody for a mental health evaluation and allows police to initiate a process intended to keep that person away from firearms.

Maine's proposed voter identification initiative ('Question 1') would have required voters to present a photo ID for both in-person and absentee voting, limited election drop boxes to one per municipality, and required absentee voters to submit a written application before each election.

An extreme risk protection order law (commonly called a 'red flag' law) prohibits the purchase, possession, or control of a dangerous weapon if a person is suspected of posing a significant danger of causing physical injury to themselves or another person.

Maine's 'yellow flag' law requires law enforcement to take a person believed to be a danger to themselves or others into protective custody and to have the person undergo a mental health evaluation before a judge can order the temporary removal of their firearms.

A 'yellow flag' law, as implemented in Maine, permits only law enforcement officers to petition a court to temporarily restrict a person's access to firearms.

Margaret Chase Smith, William Cohen, and Olympia Snowe each served as Republican U.S. senators from Maine, and George J. Mitchell served as a Democratic U.S. senator from Maine.

Nearly half of voters in Maine used absentee ballots in the 2024 U.S. presidential election (November 5, 2024).

Susan Collins is a five-term incumbent U.S. senator from Maine.

Maine is generally considered a Democratic-leaning state in federal elections.

Janet Mills won reelection as governor of Maine in 2022 by a 13-point margin.

Janet Mills won re-election as Maine governor in 2022, defeating former Governor Paul LePage by a margin described as double digits.

Janet Mills was re-elected governor of Maine in 2022, defeating former Republican governor Paul LePage by double-digit margins.

In the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Maine, the Democratic nominee lost to incumbent Susan Collins by eight percentage points.

In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden carried Maine by nine percentage points.

Janet Mills has served as governor of Maine since 2019 and previously served as Maine's attorney general.

Janet Mills was the first woman elected governor of Maine, first winning the governorship in 2018.

Janet Mills won the Maine gubernatorial election in 2018 by more than seven percentage points.

Janet Mills won Maine's 2018 gubernatorial election, becoming the state's first female governor.

Janet Mills was elected in 2018 as Maine's first female governor.

Susan Collins has served as a U.S. Senator from Maine since 1997.

Democrats had not won a U.S. Senate election in Maine since George Mitchell's 1988 reelection.

Janet Mills served as Maine's first female attorney general.

Verified cases of voter fraud in Maine elections are described as exceedingly rare.

Maine uses a ranked-choice voting system to elect members to Congress.

Paul LePage is a two-term former governor of Maine.