
Maine voters will cast their ballots in local elections on June 10.
All communities will be voting on the fate of school budgets and many ballots include school board or town council positions, as well as other spending decisions.
Polls open between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. See more information about how and where to vote here.
Below is a look at what’s on the ballots in communities across Southern Maine. Each city or town also has a sample ballot available at the municipal office or online.
Arundel
Kennebunk-based Regional School Unit 21 voters will decide whether to approve the school budget and whether to continue the annual budget votes for three more years.
Voters will fill two seats on the Board of Selectmen, with candidates Charles Bassett and Velma Jones Hayes effectively unopposed. Also on the ballot are RSU 21 director seats. Mandy Cummings is seeking a one-year term and Britney Gerth is running for a three-year term, and both are running uncontested.
Biddeford
The city ballot asks whether voters approve the proposed school budget, and whether to continue holding budget referendums for the next three years.
Brunswick
Brunswick voters will decide on the school budget and vote on whether to continue the budget votes for the next three years.
Also on the ballot is two-way race for an at-large school board seat, with candidates Shaun M. Hogan and Katie Stansky.
Buxton
Two seats are open on the Buxton Board of Selectmen, with Mark J. Blier, Heath D. Knight and Thomas J. Peters vying for the positions. Craig S. Lefebvre and Jeremiah K. Ross III are running unopposed for two open seats on the Planning Board.
The Buxton budget committee has three open seats with four candidates: David F. Kessler, Luke G. Plummer, Cody B. St. Louis and Ronald G. Tardif.
School Administrative District 6 has one open board seat each in Buxton, Frye Island, Hollis, Limington and Standish, all with uncontested candidates.
Buxton also voters decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
A town meeting on June 14 at 9 a.m. at town hall has voting – in-person only – on town meeting warrants.
Cape Elizabeth
Cape Elizabeth voters will decide on the school budget, but also will be asked whether they believe the budget is too high, acceptable or too low, and whether to continue budget votes. Also on the ballot are a proposed $86.5 million school construction project and a referendum on proposed town center zoning amendments.
Cumberland
Cumberland’s Town Council has two at-large seats up for grabs, with three candidates: Michael Edes, Ann Marie Maksymowicz and Robert Vail. Geoffrey Michalak is running unopposed for the council seat representing West Cumberland.
The School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors has two Cumberland seats open with three candidates: Cara Orton, Kimberly Vine and Lauren Weliver.
Voters also decide on the school budget and whether to continue the budget votes for the next three years.
Falmouth
Four candidates are seeking three seats on the Falmouth Town Council: Aristides Diax-Pedrosa, Robert Kline, Andrew Sharp and Danielle Tracy.
The school board has two open seats, with candidates Melissa Cilley and Katie Knapp running unopposed.
Falmouth voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue the budget votes for the next three years.
Freeport
Freeport-based RSU 5 voters will decide on the school budget for fiscal 2026.
The Board of Directors for the district, which also covers Durham and Pownal, has proposed a $44.5 million budget — an increase of 6.83%, or about $2.8 million, over last year’s.
A budget brochure shared by the district says 94% of that requested increase would cover negotiated salary and benefit increases for staff.
Gorham
Gorham school committee has one seat up for grabs, with Jaci J. Reynolds as the sole candidate.
Voters also decide on the school budget and whether to continue voting on budget for the next three years.
Gray
Gray voters decide on budget warrant article 5 to allot an additional $111,000 for contract law enforcement services through the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office to increase patrol. The Town Council recommends passage of the budget warrant.
Vincent Palange is running for a three-year term on the Town Council and is uncontested.
Gray’s Town Council also has a seat open for the balance of a three-year term to end June 2026, with candidates Kenneth Farrington and Levi Robinson running. A seat is also open for a vacated three-year term to end June 2026, with David Hall and Charity Klinger vying for the position.
The School Administrative District 15 board has two Gray seats open with three candidates: Tod Bennett, Hunter Johnson and Frances Monroe. Voters also will decide on the SAD 15 school budget.
Kennebunk
Kennebunk voters will decide on a proposal to eliminate a pay-as-you-throw trash program and spend $669,000 for trash collection and disposal.
Another referendum on the ballot seeks voter approval to spend $1.65 million on capital improvement projects for public safety, including a new ambulance and police cruisers.
Voters also will decide on the Kennebunk-based RSU 21 school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport voters will elect a Kennebunk representatives to the Regional School Unit 21 board, with candidate Rachel Kennedy-Smith running uncontested for the three-year term. Robert Domine is running for a one-year term on the RSU 21 board.
Voters in RSU 21 will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
There are two open seats on the Kennebunkport Board of Selectmen, with Jon Dykstra and Joseph Moan running unopposed.
Kennebunkport ballots also contain four referendum questions related to ordinance changes.
Kittery
Kittery voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for three years. The ballot also contains town budget warrants.
New Gloucester
On the ballot in New Gloucester are two school board director seats, with candidates Penny L. Collins and Misty L. Coolidge running, and two select board seats with Carolyn Justice, Joshua James Pietrowicz and Rachel Lyn Rumson vying for the positions.
New Gloucester voters also will vote on the SAD 15 school budget.
North Yarmouth
The Select Board in North Yarmouth has two seats open, with Andrea Berry and Paul William Whitmarsh running unopposed. Two seats are also open on the Budget Committee, with candidates Christina A. Benn, Paul W. Hodgetts and Sean James Holshouser vying for the positions.
The SAD 51 Board of Directors has one seat open representing North Yarmouth, with Leanne Hemphill Candura running uncontested.
Voters also will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Portland
Cassidy Lacroix and Jayne Sawtelle are running for one at-large school board seat in Portland.
Voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Saco
Saco voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Sanford
Sanford voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Scarborough
Scarborough ballots contain three open seats for the school board, with Charlotte Jacobs, John Kelleher III and Jillian Trapini-Huff running. There is also a town council special election for one seat, with candidates Lawrence W. Cain, Donald Scott Gondzar and Crescencia Maurer vying for the position.
Voters also will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
South Portland
Voters in South Portland will decide on the school budget.
Westbrook
Westbrook voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
Waterboro
Waterboro has two town council seats open, with Dennis Abbott and David Chauvette running.
The Regional School Unit 57 Board of Directors has an open seat for a three-year term, with candidates Adam Tanguay and Thomas Lee vying for the position. There is also a one-year term seat for the RSU 57 Board of Directors, with Deanna Vigliotta running uncontested.
Voters also will decide on an article to appropriate $200,000 for contract deputies, an increase not supported by the Board of Selectmen or the Budget Committee.
Wells
Wells voters will decide on two open seats for Selectmen, with candidates Mark Bagdasarian, Scott DeFelice, John Macleod III and Avery Seuter vying for the positions. Wells Sanitary District also has two open seats, with Paul Baratta, Justin Batchelder and Andre Brosseau running.
Voters will decide on the school budget and whether to continue a budget vote for the next three years.
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