Oxford County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

Elizabeth Bosworth is a longtime educator, chair of the MSAD 72 School Board and leader of outdoor education programs with The Great Outdoor Company of Western Maine, and lives in Fryeburg, per Bosworth's campaign site. Bosworth is the Democratic nominee for Senate District 18, per The Maine Monitor.

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.

Kimberly Pomerleau is a two-term state representative from Standish with more than 40 years of experience as a small business owner, per Pomerleau's campaign site. Pomerleau owns Roadway Utility Trailers, Standish Auto and Trailer Sales, and Standish Towing and Recovery, and is a Republican candidate for Senate District 22, per the same source.

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.

Hetrick spent 22 years as a union industrial painter, working on bridges, power plants and refineries, per the campaign site. Hetrick grew up in a union family in West Virginia and now lives on a small farm in western Maine, per the campaign site.

Hughes is a potter who has kept a working studio since 1980 and taught for more than 25 years at the college level, finishing the last nine years of a teaching career at Gould Academy in Bethel, per the campaign site. Hughes and a spouse bought and ran the Mill Hill Inn for seven years, per the campaign site.

Brianna Fern Lueck was raised in Sumner, Maine and graduated from Buckfield Jr.-Sr. High School and Oxford Hills Technical School in 2012, per the campaign site. She works as a farmer and a lender and is running for Maine House District 79, per the campaign site.

Azalea D. Cormier, of Buckfield, is an independent candidate for the open Maine House District 80 seat, per The Maine Monitor. Cormier is serving a second term on Buckfield's Select Board and studied at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service, per the campaign site.

Fitts is a second-generation small business owner who serves as a Selectman in the Town of Oxford, per the campaign site. Fitts has served on the Oxford Town Budget Committee and the Recreation Department Committee, and is running for House District 80, which covers Buckfield, Hebron, Otisfield and Oxford, per the campaign site.

Christopher A. Easton, of Waterford, is a Democratic candidate for Maine House District 81, per the campaign site. Easton taught in the Oxford Hills school system for 11 years and coached Nordic skiing for 42 years, and has also worked as a carpenter, farmer, beekeeper and small business owner, per the campaign site.

Lewey is the Executive Director and Founder of RAVEN Interpretive Programs and holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern Maine and a master's degree in Environmental Studies, per the campaign site. Lewey lives in Fryeburg and is running in House District 82, whose towns include Brownfield, Fryeburg, Hiram, Porter and Lovell, per the campaign site.

Ness is a skilled metal fabricator who works at Harmac, a local rebar fabrication shop, and founded the Constitutional Awareness Pact in 2015, per the campaign site. The site describes Ness as a former State Representative who served in the 131st Legislature on the Joint Standing Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business, per the campaign site.

Timothy J. Becker, of Bridgton, is a Democratic candidate for Maine House District 83, per the campaign site. Becker is a tax attorney who grew up in a working-class Boston neighborhood, delivering newspapers and bagging groceries as a teenager, per the campaign site.