Our Wins
Maine Democrats
Senate Nominating Convention
In just 17 days, Maine Democrats did something no state party has ever done: built a full nominating process from scratch — and made it transparent, open, and accessible from day one.
You made that possible. Because of your support, the Maine Democratic Party:
- Stood up delegate-selection meetings in all 16 counties in under two weeks
- Ran a secure, credentialed convention for 601 delegates in Bangor
- Gave Democrats across the state — not just party insiders — a direct vote on our nominee
- Emerged united behind Troy Jackson, ready for a 101-day sprint to defeat Susan Collins
By the numbers
Participation
- 20,408 validated Democrats participated statewide
- 17,279 voters cast a ballot — an 84.7% turnout rate
- 3,666 Democrats stepped up as delegate candidates across all 16 counties
- 152 third-party or duplicate registrations were caught and rejected — proof the process held up
- 484,180 texts sent inviting Maine Democrats to take part
Organizing Programs
In 2025, the Maine Democratic Party ran its first off-year organizing programs in response to Republican threats to voting rights and to prepare for one of our biggest election cycles in Maine’s history.
We scaled our staff from four to eighteen members and successfully raised $2.2 million. This number is a great feat – over $1 million more than what we raised in 2023 and $700,000 more than 2021 – and all thanks to our staff’s efforts and funding of two boots-on-the-ground organizing programs. These programs grew our volunteer coalition to 871 hardworking volunteers – 156 of which had never been involved before last year – all fighting for our Democratic values and Maine’s working people.
Question 1
In 2025, we ran a statewide field program to defeat Question 1, which was a voter suppression bill aimed at making absentee voting harder for Mainers. With 45% of Mainers and roughly 60% of seniors using absentee voting to cast their ballots, the Maine Dems knew we had to take on this fight. With a field director and six field organizers—half in CD1 and half in CD2—working with volunteers across the state, we knocked on 41,000 doors and made 320,000 calls, resulting in tens of thousands of real conversations with voters, neighbor to neighbor and kitchen table to kitchen table.
Down Ballot Victory Program
In 2025, our Down Ballot Victory Program invested directly in local and municipal races. With a director and two field organizers, we competed in 70 races and won 51, a 73% win rate. We trained 71 potential candidates through our Run Local Training, a core component of the program with an 88% win rate among participating candidates. We flipped entire school boards and town councils, winning races in red and rural areas like Standish and Orland. Investing in municipal races doesn’t just deliver Democratic control of Maine towns, it also expands the pool of potential up-ballot Democratic candidates in the future.
