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Free public service for Maine votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked October 1, 2026General election November 3, 2026

Scope and limitations

What this Maine guide covers

This guide covers both statewide candidate contests and all 5 current printed choices confirmed by Maine's official final general-election workbook.

Included

Published now

  • 104,874 exact transactions across 698 filer accounts from the October 2, 2026, 9:40 AM ET official download
  • 803 independent-spending candidate allocations, reconciled to 353 parent payments and labeled as an overlapping view
  • Searchable account comparisons, contribution and spending charts, contributor-state map, and source-linked records
  • 5 printed choices in both statewide candidate contests
  • The official final candidate workbook and post-primary withdrawal and replacement record
  • All eight officially declared statewide write-in candidates, kept separate from printed choices
  • 3 exact Maine Ethics candidate profile summaries
  • 1 processed FEC U.S. Senate summary and one exact FEC candidate match without a processed summary
  • Registration, in-person absentee, absentee request, ballot receipt, ranked-choice, and Election Day rules
  • The finding of zero confirmed statewide ballot questions as of October 1, with the invalid school sports initiative excluded
  • The finding of zero statewide judicial election items, with the appointment system and county probate boundary stated
Not included

Outside this release

  • U.S. House, Legislature, county, probate, municipal, school, and local contests
  • Graham C. Platner after official withdrawal and replacement by Troy D. Jackson
  • Primary losers and candidates absent from the official final general-election workbook
  • District and county declared write-ins that are not statewide
  • Proposed ballot language for an initiative that did not qualify
  • County probate judge contests
  • Full-cycle finance totals and reconciliation of every filer to its latest controlling report and amendments
  • Unitemized amounts, complete report totals, cash balances and federal transaction records
  • Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research
Known finance limits

1 finance summary unavailable

  • Troy D. JacksonFEC candidate S6ME00464 and principal committee C00955609 match Troy D. Jackson, but the official FEC page reports no 2025-2026 financial summary as of October 1, 2026. Missing here does not mean $0.
View the finance source notes
Not yet published

Report reconciliation and district-level election coverage

The dated all-filer transaction download is now searchable. Latest-report reconciliation, full-cycle finance, district and local candidate guides, and local ballot styles remain unfinished. Missing source candidate IDs stay unjoined.

Dataset comparison: Maine's transaction explorer uses the October 2, 2026, official download and actual 2026 transaction dates, not full-cycle campaign totals. Its 17 source transaction classes stay separate. The 803 independent-spending candidate allocations describe the same dollars as 353 parent payments and must not be added again. Campaign-to-date Ethics profile summaries and FEC summaries remain separate, with their own reporting windows. Source office labels do not establish current ballot eligibility.
Version record

Maine guide 1.1

PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown2
Ballot choices5
Ballot measures0

2 statewide candidate contests, 5 printed choices, 3 Maine Ethics profile summaries, 1 processed FEC summary, one FEC no-summary record, eight declared statewide write-ins, voter deadlines, 0 statewide ballot questions, zero statewide judicial election items, and primary sources.

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Maine guide publication record
VersionPublishedScope
1.1October 1, 20262 statewide candidate contests, 5 printed choices, 3 Maine Ethics profile summaries, 1 processed FEC summary, one FEC no-summary record, eight declared statewide write-ins, voter deadlines, 0 statewide ballot questions, zero statewide judicial election items, and primary sources.

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