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← Rundown2026 Maine Senate race

2026 election · U.S. Senate

2026 Maine Senate race

Incumbent: Susan M. Collins (Republican)

Susan M. CollinsSusan M. CollinsRepublican45.5%
ALAndrea LaflammeDEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Public polling

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Collins
40%45%50%Jul 6Jul 13Jul 20Collins 45.3%Jackson 48.3%
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Declared candidates

Source: FEC filings + public polling
  • Susan M. Collins
    Susan M. Collins

    Republican · Incumbent

    Stated positions (7) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying the abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports the SAVE America Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections along with voter ID. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports gradual phase-out of energy tax credits and incentives for heat pumps and residential solar panels. [1]

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PollsterDatesCandidate%
University of New Hampshire2026-07-20Susan Collins46
University of New Hampshire2026-07-20Troy Jackson49
Z to A Research2026-07-08Susan Collins48
Z to A Research2026-07-08Troy Jackson47
Public Policy Polling2026-07-07Susan Collins44
Public Policy Polling2026-07-07Troy Jackson49
Wedgewood Polls2026-07-06Susan Collins43
Wedgewood Polls2026-07-06Troy Jackson48
  • Gun policy: Supports the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to fund crisis intervention, mental health resources, and measures against straw purchasing. [1]
  • Health care: Supports the Prescription Drug Price Reduction Act to lower costs, increase transparency, and cap out-of-pocket spending for seniors. [1]
  • Taxes: Supports extending tax relief for families and small businesses. [1]
  • Women's sports: Supports barring transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s athletics to uphold Title IX fairness and safety. [1]
  • AL
    Andrea Laflamme

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying abortion rights via the Women’s Health Protection Act, repealing the Hyde Amendment, and increasing Title X funding. [1][2][3]
    • Caregiver support: Supports publicly funded social insurance that pays informal caregivers including family members. [1]
    • Contraception access: Supports legislation ensuring universal access to birth control options and person-centered Title X care. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All including dental, vision and mental health, plus increased public health infrastructure investment. [1][2]
    • Medicaid: Supports increasing Medicaid reimbursements especially for perinatal services and the Better Care Better Jobs Act for home- and community-based care. [1]
    • Paid family leave: Supports the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act for national paid family and medical leave and the Healthy Families Act for paid sick days. [1]
    • Public health: Supports expanded investment in public health policies and infrastructure to prevent disease. [1][2]
    • Workers' rights: Supports raising the minimum wage and is the only elected union leader in the race. [1]
  • CV
    Carmem Vincent Mr. Calabrese

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • AI policy: Supports promoting the US as the AI center for the world and Maine as a key AI industry hub. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcing immigration laws and protecting American citizens and legal immigrants via ICE. [1][2]
    • Defense: Supports ensuring Armed Forces are the best equipped worldwide. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports investing in nuclear energy, natural gas, solar energy, oil and coal technologies to power AI revolution. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing government size and spending to prioritize US citizens over illegals or foreign interests. [1]
    • Foreign policy: Supports America First foreign policy and ensuring US remains the free world's leader. [1]
    • Infrastructure: Supports nationwide infrastructure renewal program to energize American companies and create jobs. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports tax relief and ending reporting of Venmo transactions to the IRS. [1]
  • CV
    Carmen Vincent Mr. Calabrese

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • AI policy: Supports promoting the US as the AI center of the world and Maine as a key AI industry hub. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcing immigration laws and protecting American citizens and legal immigrants via ICE. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Commits to serving a maximum of two terms in the Senate. [1]
    • Defense: Supports ensuring the US Armed Forces are the best equipped worldwide. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports investing in nuclear energy, natural gas, solar energy, oil and coal newest technologies to power the AI revolution. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing government size and spending to prioritize US citizens over illegals or foreign interests. [1]
    • Foreign policy: Supports an America First foreign policy advancing US national interests and ensuring strong US global leadership. [1]
    • Infrastructure: Supports a nationwide infrastructure renewal program to energize American companies and create jobs. [1]
  • DR
    Daira Rodriguez

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports protecting reproductive freedoms and rights. [1][2]
    • Corporate influence: Criticizes Big Food and corporate control over Congress driving up costs and limiting choices. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports expanding health care access. [1]
    • Housing costs: Seeks to address Maine's housing crisis and affordability challenges. [1][2]
    • Israel: Accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and opposes U.S. weapons and funding that support it. [1][2][3]
    • Labor unions: Identifies as pro-union. [1][2]
    • Pentagon oversight: Calls for an audit of the Pentagon and stronger oversight of military spending. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. [1][2]
  • DK
    Dan Kleban

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (7) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports the legal right to abortion and criticizes votes to overturn it. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports dismantling ICE. [1]
    • Childcare: Supports fixing childcare to strengthen the workforce and help families. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports investing in clean local energy to lower power bills and accelerate the clean energy transition. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports expanding access to healthcare and extending ACA subsidies. [1]
    • Housing costs: Supports boosting housing supply via missing middle housing, duplexes, ADUs, modular construction and streamlined permitting. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting red tape and streamlining permitting to help businesses and housing. [1]
  • DA
    David Alan Evans

    INDEPENDENT

    FEC filing ↗
  • DC
    David Costello

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying Roe v. Wade and increasing funding for reproductive health organizations like Planned Parenthood. [1][2]
    • Civil rights: Supports ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and broadening civil rights protections for all Americans. [1][2]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports imposing 24-year term limits on members of the U.S. House and Senate. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports increased funding for community policing, substance abuse, and mental health services along with enhanced police training. [1]
    • Education: Supports universal pre-kindergarten, aftercare, and increased investments in education. [1]
    • Election integrity: Supports resurrecting the Freedom to Vote Act and similar legislation to strengthen representative governance. [1][2]
    • Environment: Supports better safeguarding the planet and Maine’s environment along with clean energy investments. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Supports an assault weapons ban and building on common-sense gun safety laws and regulations. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports establishing a comprehensive Medicare for All program covering all health care and long-term care services. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports expanded federal housing assistance to ensure all Mainers have access to housing. [1][2]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports reconstituting critical government agencies and regulations such as the EPA. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports repealing tax benefits for the wealthy. [1]
  • Graham Platner
    Graham Platner

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (19) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports a strong federal guarantee of the right to choose. [1][2]
    • Ban billionaires buying elections: Supports a constitutional amendment to ban billionaires buying elections and overturn Citizens United. [1][2][3]
    • Campaign Finance: Supports banning billionaires from buying elections and overturning Citizens United. [1][2][3]
    • Civil Rights: Supports passing federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation. [1][2]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning lawmakers and spouses from trading stocks while in office. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits of two terms in the Senate and six in the House. [1][2]
    • Drugs: Supports legalization of cannabis and clemency. [1]
    • Education: Opposes any federal support for private school vouchers. [1]
    • Energy: Supports ending Big Oil price gouging and targeting the fuel tax to reduce costs. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports ending Big Oil price gouging and building clean energy while freezing electricity rate increases. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Supports red flag laws and opposes badly drafted assault weapons bans. [1]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All and opposes any cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports serious federal support for building housing. [1]
    • Immigration: Supports strong border security and a path to citizenship. [1]
    • Israel: Supports using every means available to end the Gaza war. [1][2]
    • Marijuana legalization: Supports legalization of cannabis along with clemency for those caught up in the war on drugs. [1][2]
    • School choice: Opposes any federal support for private school vouchers. [1][2]
    • Supreme Court: Supports removing two conservative Supreme Court justices and potentially expanding the court. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports taxing billionaires and large corporations while cutting taxes for middle-class Americans and lifting the Social Security cap. [1][2]
  • Janet Trafton Mills
    Janet Trafton Mills

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (14) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports restoring and protecting reproductive health care rights. [1][2]
    • Campaign finance: Supports overturning Citizens United to get money out of politics. [1][2][3]
    • Child care: Supports expanding access to affordable child care. [1][2][3]
    • Clean energy: Supports embracing clean energy to lower energy costs, fight climate change, and protect the environment. [1][2]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning Congressional stock trading. [1][2][3]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits for members of Congress, limiting representatives to six terms and senators to two terms. [1][2][3]
    • Filibuster reform: Supports reforming the filibuster by requiring senators to remain on the floor and speak. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports universal health care, breaking up health care conglomerates, and capping prescription drug costs. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports reigniting the dream of home ownership and expanding housing access. [1][2][3]
    • Immigration reform: Supports a humane immigration system with a pathway to citizenship and reforms to ICE accountability. [1][2]
    • Public education: Supports restoring public education. [1][2]
    • Reassert congressional authority: Supports reasserting Congress's authority, including modernizing the War Powers Resolution and strengthening oversight of the executive. [1][2]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports a wealth tax on highest earners and closing federal tax loopholes. [1][2]
  • JW
    Jordan Wood

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (14) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports codifying Roe v. Wade into law and restoring funding to Planned Parenthood. [1]
    • Campaign finance reform: Supports constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, ending dark money loopholes, banning corporate PACs and lobbyist donations, and public financing of elections. [1][2]
    • Childcare: Supports capping childcare at $10 a day and universal child care. [1][2]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. [1]
    • Education: Supports making need-based federal student loans interest-free, enacting free community college for all, and passing universal pre-K nationwide. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports keeping communities safe from gun violence. [1]
    • Health care: Supports passing Medicare for All to create a universal single-payer system with no deductibles, co-pays or premiums, plus a public option and Medicaid expansion. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports increasing funding for affordable housing, restricting corporate ownership of homes and short-term rentals, and providing tax credits for building workforce housing. [1][2]
    • Immigration: Supports fixing the broken immigration system and abolishing ICE to replace it with an agency that answers to the people. [1]
    • Israel: Supports ending funding for Israel’s actions in Gaza described as genocide. [1][2]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting and strengthening Social Security without cuts, expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental and hearing, and negotiating all drug prices. [1][2]
    • Supreme Court reform: Supports reforming the Supreme Court to reduce partisan control and strengthen ethics rules. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports an ultra-millionaire tax on households worth over $50 million and drastically cutting taxes for working families to 1% on the first $50,000 earned. [1][2]
    • Unions: Supports the PRO Act, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and protecting shipyards and prevailing wage laws. [1]
  • PL
    Paige Loud

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (11) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports federally codifying Roe v. Wade as fundamental rights. [1]
    • Civil rights: Supports passing the Equality Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [1]
    • Defense / Veterans: Supports free and complete VA coverage including medical, mental health, dental, vision, and long-term care. [1]
    • Education: Supports legislation providing universal childcare to every American. [1]
    • Environment / Energy: Supports safeguarding wetlands and waters while holding polluters accountable for contamination. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports background checks for all firearm purchases and closing loopholes. [1]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare-for-All to guarantee comprehensive coverage including dental, vision, and long-term care. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports dramatically increasing permanently affordable housing supply and tenant protections including right to counsel. [1][2]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports preserving Social Security and expanding Home and Community Based Services under Medicaid. [1]
    • Student loan forgiveness: Supports canceling all federal student loan debt and tuition-free public universities and trade schools. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports closing corporate tax loopholes and raising taxes on high earners and corporations. [1][2]
  • PR
    Phillip Rench

    INDEPENDENT

    FEC filing ↗
  • TF
    Tucker Favreau

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
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