Franklin County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

Sullebarger describes himself as an engineer and business leader who has spent his career building companies, creating jobs and solving real-world problems, per the campaign site. Sullebarger is running for Maine Senate District 5, which includes Farmington, Anson, St. Albans and New Sharon in Franklin County, per the campaign site.

Southam spent over thirty years as an educator, teaching science, and earned a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College in 1987, per the campaign site. Southam also started Bethel Bicycle in 2008 and ran it for seven years, and has served on the board of the trail organization he helped found in 2011, now named Inland Woods and Trails, per the campaign site.

Bridges is a retired postmaster who has also worked as a baseball coach and animal control officer, per the campaign site. Bridges is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, per the campaign site.

Sharon Frost represents Maine House District 58, covering Belgrade, Fayette, Mount Vernon, New Sharon, Rome and Vienna, and has served in the 132nd Legislature, per her official Maine House member profile. Frost is a former educator who has volunteered extensively in schools, served on a local school board as chair of its Educational Programming Committee, and worked as an agro-forestry volunteer in the Peace Corps, per her campaign website. She sits on the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee and the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, per her official profile.

Simonds studied Forestry at the University of Maine and spent 20 years managing woodlands in the forest products industry, per the campaign site. Simonds founded a consulting business specializing in environmental standards for the wood products industry and has lived in Rangeley since 1990, per the campaign site.

Soboleski is a Marine Corps veteran who attended the University of Maine at Machias and founded, built and later sold a fitness equipment sales and service company, per the campaign site. Soboleski led field operations in Maine for the 2020 Census for the U.S. Census Bureau and serves on the Labor Committee and the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, per the campaign site.

Marc Edwards is a semi-retired assistant carpenter who has lived in Strong for nearly 20 years with his wife, Michaela, per his campaign site. He spent much of his career in parks and natural resources work, including as a park ranger at Acadia National Park and a naturalist at Baxter State Park, and received the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's Commissioner's Print award for research on brook trout anglers, per his campaign site.

Gauvin worked in emergency medicine in Farmington for an entire career, first as a first responder and paramedic and then as a Physician Assistant in the Franklin Memorial Hospital emergency room, retiring in 2020, per the campaign site. Gauvin organizes and works at the St. Joseph Center Food Pantry, serves on the Farmington Board of Selectmen and belongs to the Rotary Club of Farmington, per the campaign site.

Landry spent nearly four decades in the insurance business before retiring and now runs a small farm, per the campaign site. The site mentions service as a Farmington selectman and says Landry represented the region in the Maine Legislature for three terms, per the campaign site.

Trevor Alex Doiron is a fourth-generation Jay resident who works as a consultant for the U.S. Small Business Administration, per his campaign site. He holds a graduate degree in public policy specializing in real estate and economic development and serves on the Jay Planning Board, per the same source. He is the Democratic candidate for Maine House District 76 in 2026.