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2026 candidates we're tracking in ME-1
Chellie Pingree
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Lowering prescription drug costs, protecting reproductive freedom, and strengthening Social Security and Medicare
- Supporting livable wages for working families
- Addressing climate change by expanding clean energy jobs
About Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree represents Maine's 1st Congressional District. She is an organic farmer and small business owner on North Haven Island who previously served as a school board member and local tax assessor before her election to the Maine State Senate in 1992, per her congressional office. In Congress she serves on the House Agriculture Committee and is founder and chair of the Slow Fashion Caucus, per the same source.
Ronald C. Russell
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Reducing crime and supporting first responders
- Education
- Civility, respect and productive congressional discourse
About Ronald C. Russell
Russell is a native Mainer born in Fort Fairfield and raised on a potato farm, a West Point graduate commissioned in the Infantry in 1976 who served 30 years in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and Green Beret, per the campaign site. Russell is also a business owner, per the campaign site.
About this race
Maine's 1st Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Maine primary is Tuesday, June 9, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.