With the deadline for major party candidates passing Thursday, March 15, the races for Maine House and Senate seats are finalized.

Last week, the Lakes Region Weekly detailed races affecting Windham and Gray voters. Those included District 111 in Windham, District 110 in East and North Windham and West Gray; and Senate District 12, which encompasses Windham, Raymond, Casco, Hollis, Standish and Frye Island.

This week’s roundup covers nominees for seats representing Raymond, Standish, Naples and Casco, as well as the Senate District affecting towns west and north of Sebago Lake.

In Raymond, voters will see a rematch of the 2010 race in which Republican incumbent Mike McClellan defeated Democrat Jim Stephenson. Dana Desjardins, also of Raymond, may run as an unenrolled candidate. He has yet to submit paperwork but as a non-party candidate he has until June to do so.

In Standish, another 2010 electoral rematch will see two-term incumbent Democrat Mike Shaw facing off against Republican Todd Delaney.

In Naples and Casco, Republican Rich Cebra is term-limited for the House seat representing District 101. Vying for the open seat is Republican Laurie Mondville and Democrat Kelley Simpson.

Cebra is seeking higher office and faces a primary battle in the Senate District 13 race against Oxford resident James Hamper. Also vying for that seat is Democrat Dennise Whitley.

District 102

The District 102 race is a rematch of 2010’s contest between incumbent Democrat Mike Shaw and Republican Todd Delaney.

Shaw, 39, of Perimeter Avenue, Standish, is married and works as a conductor on the Amtrak Downeaster. He is serving his second term in the State House.

When asked why he’s seeking a third term, Shaw said, “I believe that the state needs to have more hard-working regular people up in Augusta. That’s basically why I do it. I like to give the perspective of the working folks.”

Todd Delaney, who lives with his wife, Helen, and daughter on Spear Road in Standish, has served on the School Administrative District 6 School Board, is the current secretary of the Standish Kiwanis Club and Standish Republican Town Committee. Delaney got into the 2010 race late after two previous candidates dropped out. He said he’s intending to give Shaw a stronger challenge this cycle.

“As a parent, and as a person with years of experience in sales and technology, I have seen first-hand the impact state policies have on our schools, our economy and our community,” Delaney said of his reasons for running. “We need to focus on the economy and making Maine more hospitable to job creation. If I’m elected, I will continue to work to reduce Maine’s tax burden, and set thoughtful priorities to ensure that we have safe roads, provide our children a solid education, continue the effort to bring down the cost of health insurance, and protect our most vulnerable citizens – especially our elderly and children.”

District 103

District 103, which comprises Raymond, parts of Poland and Standish and Frye Island, has been held for the last two years by Republican Mike McClellan of Raymond.

McClellan, 52, and his wife, Michelle, have two adult kids. He is the former executive director of the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce and served for 20 years in the mental health field. He also ran a business apprenticeship program at Poland Regional High School, and is an economic development consultant. He also served several terms on the Raymond School Board.

“I feel I have a better grasp of the job the second year,” McClellan said when asked why he’s seeking reelection. “I think we accomplished a lot in the first session and after 40 years of another party having leadership we really impacted things like taxes and health care, local control, education. I’ve heard people say the tone in Augusta has changed, you’re more accessible, it’s just a better working situation up there. So I think we’re doing really good things. I think we’re really on the right track.”

Running against McClellan is Jim Stephenson, former owner of Jordan Bay Animal Hospital in Raymond. Stephenson, 57, of Raymond

is retired from clinical veterinary practice but runs a consulting firm, Simmons Northeast, in which he advises veterinarians across New England and New York in regard to business management. He has served as co-chair of Raymond’s Comprehensive Master Plan Committee, Zoning Board of Appeals and the Route 302 and You committee. He will be listed on the ballot at Leslie Stevenson, his given name.

“I’m committed to the Democratic process and in a democracy, people deserve a choice. I understand I’m running against an incumbent and that’s a greater challenge but I just want to make sure the voters in the district have an alternative,” Stephenson said. “My baseline orientation is toward small business owners and certainly doing what I can to facilitate the growth of small business owners and making it easy for small business owners to get started and to maintain their businesses is primary in my DNA.”

Dana Desjardins, 53, of Webbs Mills Road in Raymond is also planning to run for the District 103 seat as an unenrolled independent. Desjardins, who is married to Paula Desjardins and has two children, served for nine years on the Raymond Board of Selectmen and for many years as a director and coach for Raymond Recreation. He has yet to submit his paperwork but said he plans to do so by the June deadline.

Desjardins, a conservative, said he decided not to run as a Republican but as an independent because “the [Republicans are] not conservative enough for me. Not only [regarding the] budget, but they had a chance to change the dynamic of the political landscape after the 2010 census was taken and they failed to redo [Congressional] District 2 over. Not only that, they’re just not getting the job done. They’ve been given a responsibility and they’re not doing their job. And I don’t like them playing with the public education.”

District 101

With Rich Cebra term-limited after four terms representing House District 101, two Casco residents, Laurie Mondville and Kelley Simpson, have filed papers for the seat. The district comprises Casco, Naples and part of Poland.

Laurie Mondville, 44, is a Republican who is serving her second year on the School Administrative District 61 School Board. She serves as the board’s finance committee chairwoman. She lives in Casco with husband David Mondville and has three children. She operates A Loving Attachment child care center in Windham.

Asked what’s motivating her to run for state office, Mondville said, “I believe the state is in not-so-good a place speaking of the budget. And we need to balance that budget. We need good welfare reform. We need new educational policies that are pro-school and right now I feel as though LePage is on the right page, he’s doing the right thing and we need to keep moving that forward. I’ve always had a desire to serve my community. I’m on the school board and this is just another level of that and I want to keep fighting for more responsible government.”

Kelley Simpson, 58, of Casco, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1984 to 1992. His son, Mac Simpson, ran for the District 101 seat last term. He and wife, Barbara, own Overlook Farm on Heath Road in Casco as well as the Mayberry Hill Preschool.

“The biggest issue in our district is the loss of school funding from the state,” Simpson said when asked why he’s pursuing the seat. “We used to be a 40-percent receiver from the state of Maine under the school funding formula, and now we’re receiving 0 percent in the last two years so all the school’s budget is paid for through property taxes. And we need to change the school funding formula at the state level. The school funding formula’s a very complicated issue and very controversial because every district wants more money from the state to reduce their property tax debt, so that’s the primary issue to me and I would imagine most of the voters.”

Senate District 13

Towns arcing around the northern side of Sebago and Long lakes have been represented in the Maine Senate by David Hastings for the last eight years. The large district includes Porter, Hiram, Baldwin, Brownfield, Naples, Fryeburg, Denmark, Sebago, Bridgton, Harrison, Otisfield, Oxford and Norway.

With Hastings term-limited, two Republicans, Rich Cebra of Naples and James Hamper of Oxford, have submitted papers and will face off in a June primary. Democrat Dennise Whitley is the lone Democrat candidate.

Whitley, 71, has been the American Heart Association’s government relations director for the last 13 years. She also ran the American Red Cross branch in Arizona for three years, came back to Norway. Much of her work life has been spent in health care management. She also served four years as a commissioner for the Maine Human Rights Commission in the 1990s.

When asked why she’s running, Whitley said, “I have always wanted to serve and that started when I was a junior in high school and I got selected to go to Girls State. And I love government. I love learning about it. I love working in it. It’s a great process.”

Republican James Hamper, of Oxford, has been a conservative voice in Augusta and says he holds similar views to Rich Cebra his primary contender.

“I want to continue the policies that we’ve passed already,” Hamper said when asked why he is running. “Job creation is really the top target and it’s not so much what the government can do to create jobs, but we have to set up the conditions for others to make the jobs. And that boils down to regulations, insurance, electricity, worker’s comp, unemployment, all those factors.”

Republican Rich Cebra, of Naples, is married, has two children and has owned Steamboat Landing mini-golf course in Naples for the last 13 years. Cebra says he has enjoyed public service and says, “I’ve led on a lot of issues but there’s still a lot of work to do. I’ve done a lot as far as securing our driver’s licenses, welfare reform. I’ve defended the second amendment. I’ve worked on multiple, multiple bills and while we’ve made some headway in the last two years with the change in direction in Augusta, there’s still a lot of work to do. And while I’m term-limited in the House, I think I could be an effective senator.”