About The Guide
The Voter Guide is back, and it’s more comprehensive than ever.
Beginning over the summer, we sent surveys to every candidate for state and federal office in Maine, including candidates for all 186 legislative races. For the first time, we also included most candidates for local office in Maine’s biggest cities — even the ones we don’t normally cover. (As always, if you are a candidate and you want to fill out our survey, get in touch with us!)
We’re also rolling out a new feature: Build your ballot. We want to give you a tool you can use to actively mull your voting decisions, complete with each candidate’s biographical information and their answers to our survey questions — if they got back to us. While we weren’t able to send our survey to every candidate for every office in the state, the guide includes information about more than 400 races.
While you use this tool, please note that your ballot may include more offices or questions than what we’ve provided.
Putting this guide together involved dozens of reporters and editors, and hundreds of combined hours of outreach, combing through answers and logging responses.
In the spring, more than 20,000 readers read the guide. As we gear up for one of the biggest elections in Maine history, we hope you find this version even more useful.
Note: Local election surveys were primarily sent to contested candidates only. If you are an uncontested candidate, or a contested candidate who we missed and would like to participate, please email election@metln.org.