Maine Congressional Candidates 2026

• Chellie PingreeDemocraticIncumbent✓ Verified

  $531K raised
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• Ronald RussellRepublican✓ Verified

  $192K raised
  • Official FEC

Where they differ: Chellie Pingree supports allowing asylum seekers to apply for work permits 30 days after applying for asylum and voted against multiple immigration enforcement bills while supporting a national emergency resolution 12. She believes gun violence is preventable, prioritizes community safety, and voted yea on prison staff safety bills but nay on gun rights and violent offender bills 56. Ronald Russell opposes Biden’s open border policies, supports securing the border and reforming amnesty with proper vetting, and described a January immigration enforcement action as a coordination failure without faulting the administration 34. He supports restoring law and order by ensuring violent criminals serve sentences and providing law enforcement with needed resources and decent wages 7.
AI-written comparison of the sourced positions on the district page. Generated Oct 19, 2026.

• Paul LePageRepublican✓ Verified

  $3.2M raised
  • Official FEC
• Matt DunlapDemocratic✓ Verified

  $2.7M raised
  • Official FEC

Where they differ: Paul LePage supports growing the economy by creating jobs, lowering taxes, and cutting red tape, and he supports securing the border by finishing the wall, ending illegal immigration, and restoring law and order 14. Matt Dunlap supports fighting tariffs and foreign wars to lower prices and create good-paying jobs and affordable housing, including proposing a revolving federal loan fund for affordable-housing developers, and he opposes ongoing foreign wars, particularly the war in Iran, supporting a war powers resolution to end it to reduce costs 231415.
AI-written comparison of the sourced positions on the district page. Generated Oct 16, 2026.