Communities across Maine voted Tuesday on school budgets. Some also elected local office holders or decided on new ordinances or spending projects.
Here are results of school budget votes and contested elections in southern and midcoast Maine. Results of school budget votes in multi-town school districts are listed at the bottom.
Arundel:
Board of Selectmen – two seats
Daniel Dubois (i)Â Â Â Â 216 votes
Philip Labbe (i)Â Â Â Â Â Â 220 votes
Rodney Sparkowich     59 votes
Biddeford:
School budget
Yes   83 percent  (206 votes)
No    17 percent  (43 votes)
Brunswick:
School budget
Yes   73 percent  (730 votes)
No    27 percent  (270 votes)
Cape Elizabeth
School budget
Yes       67 percent  (294 votes)
No       33 percent  (145 votes)
Cumberland
Town Council
Mark Segrist      68 percent  (1,356 votes)
George Turner       32 percent  (634 votes)
School Board MSAD 51 (two seats)
Hannah Barry        21 percent  (784 votes)
Adam Dougherty     13 percent  (498 votes)
Ann Maksymowicz   24 percent  (915 votes)
Jason Record        22 percent  (822 votes)
Vijayarani Suresh      20 percent  (777 votes)
Falmouth
School budget
Yes      78.8 percent  (1,185 votes)
No      21.2 percent  (318 votes)
Town Council (two seats)
Hope Cahan    40.8 percent  (1,106 votes)
Amy Kuhn      44.4 percent  (1,201 votes)
John Winslow    14.8 percent  (401 votes)
School Board (two seats)
Nicole Plette Bezanson      791 votes
Whitney Bruce             748 votes
Laura Farraher              459 votes
Anne Rutherford            397 votes
William Walker              359 votes
Gorham
School budget
Yes      67 percent  (439 votes)
No       33 percent  (215 votes)
Hollis
Adult-use marijuana businesses
Yes       65 percent  (303 votes)
No       35 percent  (163 votes)
Kennebunk
Select Board  (three seats)
Wayne Berrry (i)Â Â Â Â Â 599 votes
Shiloh Schulte (i)Â Â Â Â 871 votes
John Costin         652 votes
Anthony Michaud    297 votes
Kortney Nedeau     1,024 votes
Gwen Page           400 votes
Lisa Joy Pratt         770 votes
Kyle Roberts          566 votes
Select Board (two-year term)
Sally Carpenter       61.1 percent  (1,047 votes)
Thomas Wellman       38.9 percent  (667 votes)
RSU 21 Board of DirectorsÂ
Joshua Barstow        796 votes
Amanda Downing      1,098 votes
Alison Riggieri          585 votes
Peter Sentner           1,027 votes
Kennebunkport:
RSU 21 board
James McMann
Megan Michaud  (uncontested)   735 votes
Kittery
School budget
Yes         84 percent  (1,029 votes)
No          16 percent  (199 votes)
Town Council, seat expires Nov. 2023
Cameron Hamm       65 percent  (771 votes) Â
Joshua Seymour       35 percent  (418 votes)
Town Council, seat expires Nov. 2022
Robert Gray                219 votes
Colin McGuire              130 votes
Thomas Orlando            205 votes
Mary Gibbons Stevens       675 votes
New Gloucester
Board of Selectmen (two seats)
Karen Gilles         431 votes
Paul Larrivee Jr.     629 votes
Stephen Hathorne    492 votes
Board of Selectmen (one seat)
Linda Chase            249 votes
Scott Doyle             261 votes
Brian Shedlarski         129 votes
Dustin Ward            308 votes
School Board
Jason Hart                467 votes
Deborah Lang              320 votes
Charter Commission (six seats)
Michael Arata          456 votes
Peter Bragdon          535 votes  Â
Lucinda Brakey         423 votes
Daniel Ellingson         387 votes
Karen Farrell            393 votes
Stephen Hathorne       543 votes
Penelope Hilton         473 votes
Michael Lang            114 votes
Kathleen Potter          154 votes
John Salisbury           465 votes
Benjamin Tettlebaum     435 votes
Cleo Werner             351 votes
North Yarmouth
Town Council
Steven Berry     47 percent  (470 votes)
Paul Hodgetts    53 percent  (526 votes)Â
School Board MSAD 51
Vanessa Bryant         47 percent  (405 votes)
Thomas McGuinness    53 percent  (461 votes)
Ogunquit
Wells-Ogunquit school board
Aneliya Georgieva-Petrov     28 percent  (96 votes)
Michele Tourangeau         72 percent  (285 votes)
Old Orchard Beach
School budget
Yes        72 percent  (138 votes)
No        28 percent  (54 votes)
Portland
School budget
Yes       77 percent  (6,698 votes)
No       23 percent  (1,992 votes)
Precincts reporting: 12 of 12
Charter Commission District 1 (one seat)
*Twain Braden
David Cowle                          14.5 percent  (245 votes)
Karen Snyder                         19.7 percent  (333 votes)
Shamika (Shay) Stewart-Bouley    64.9 percent  (1,096 votes)
* withdrew
Precincts reporting: 4 of 4
Charter Commission District 2
*Emma (Em) Burnett
Robert O’Brien (uncontested)
* withdrew
Charter Commission District 3
Zachary Barowitz  51.2 percent  (1.010)
Brian Batson      37 percent  (731)
Charles Bryon     11.8 percent  (233)
Precincts reporting: 3 of 3
Charter Commission District 4
Marcques Houston   51.2 percent  (979 votes)
Cheryl Leeman       48.8 percent  (933 votes)
Precincts reporting: 3 of 3
Charter Commission District 5
Mony Hang        46 percent  (763 votes)
Ryan Lizanecz      54 percent  (899 votes)
Precincts reporting: 3 of 3
Charter Commission At-Large (four seats)
Note: Winners (in bold) were chosen by ranked-choice instant runoffs. Candidates with the least votes were eliminated one by one and their votes redistributed until one candidate exceeded 50 percent and was declared a winner. That process was repeated with the remaining candidates until three more candidates exceeded 50 percent of the remaining votes. The numbers below represent each candidate’s vote totals after the first choice ballots were counted.
William Bailey          4.8 percent  (414)
Catherine Buxton       11.2 percent  (970)
Marpheen Chann        17 percent  (1,478)
Lawson Condrey         2 percent   (174)
Steven DiMillo          21.1 percent  (1,837)
Anthony Emerson        2.5 percent  (214)
Benjamin Grant         12.4 percent  (1,082)
Ian Houseal              2.4 percent  (205)
*Hope Rovelto
Nasreen Sheikh-Yousef   22.4 percent  (1,947)
Patricia Washburn        4.2 percent  (367)
*withdrawn
Precincts reporting: 12 of 12
Pownal
Select Board
Angela Clark             25 percent  (48 votes)
Jonathan Morris          75 percent  (141 votes)
Raymond
Board of Selectmen (one seat)
Joseph Bruno      204 votes
Dana DesJardins    34 votes
Abigail Geer        171 votes
Saco:
School budget
Yes     63 percent  (257 votes)
No      37 percent  (92 votes)
Sanford:
School budget
Yes      70 percent  (407 votes)
No      30 percent  (177 votes)
South Berwick:
Allow and regulate adult-use marijuana stores
Yes     10 percent  (124 votes)
No     90 percent  (1,127 votes)
Allow and regulate adult-use marijuana cultivation
Yes      10 percent  (124 votes)
No      90 percent (1,134 votes)
South Portland
School budget
Yes       77 percent  (352 votes)
No        23 percent  (105 votes)
Westbrook
School budget
Yes    79 percent   (312 votes)
No    21 percent   (83 votes)
Yarmouth
School budget
Yes         72 percent  (1,246 votes)
No          28 percent  (489 votes)
Town Council (two seats)
Heather Abbott     (1,016 votes)
David Craig        (1,016 votes)
Christopher Kam   (904 votes)
Multi-town districts school budgets
RSU 1
Arrowsic
Yes      28 votes
No       0 votes
Bath
Yes       81 votes
No        21 votes
Phippsburg
Yes       191 votes
No         34 votes
Woolwich
Yes        17 votes
No         14 votes
Total
Yes        317 votes
No         69 votes
RSU Â 5
Durham
Yes      46 percent  (74 votes)
No       54 percent  (88 votes)
Freeport
Yes       75 percent  (348 votes)
No        25 percent  (116 votes)
Pownal
Yes      62 percent  (114 votes)
No       38 percent  (71 votes)
Total
Yes    66 percent  (536 votes)
No     34 percent  (275 votes)
RSU 14
Raymond
Yes     66 percent  (247 votes)
No      34 percent  (126 votes)
Windham
Yes      67 percent  (175 votes)
No       33 percent  (85 votes)
Total
Yes      60 percent (422 votes)
No       40 percent  (211 votes)
RSU 21
Arundel
Yes       76 percent  (211 votes)
No        24 percent  (66 votes)
Kennebunk
Yes      68 percent  (1,424 votes)
No        32 percent  (657 votes)
Kennebunkport
Yes       72 percent  (852 votes)
No       28 percent  (332 votes)
Total
Yes        70 percent  (2,487 votes)
No        30 percent  (1,055 votes)
SAD 6
Buxton
Yes      203 votes
No       93 votes
Standish
Yes      597 votes
No       274 votes
Hollis
Yes       337 votes
No       110 votes
Limington
Yes      102 votes
No       66 votes
Frye Island
Yes        0 votes
No         4 votes
Total
Yes          69 percent  (1,239 votes)
No          31 percent  (547 votes)
SAD 15
Gray
Yes      304 votes
No      145 votes
New Gloucester
Yes     672 votes
No      302 votes
Total
Yes      976 votes
No       447 votes
SAD 35
Eliot
Yes       484 votes
No        194 votes
South Berwick
Yes        890 votes
No         275 votes
Total
Yes        1374 votes
No         469 votes
SAD 51
Cumberland
Yes    63.6 percent  (1,271 votes)
No     36.4 percent  (727 votes)
North Yarmouth
Yes     58.9 percent  (573 votes)
No      41.1 percent  (400 votes
Total
Yes      62.1 percent  (1,844 votes)
No      37.9 percent  (1,127 votes)
SAD 75
Bowdoin
Yes
No
Bowdoinham
Yes      225 votes
No       88 votes
Harpswell
Yes     229 votes
No      27  votes
Topsham
Yes    199 votes
No      77 votes
Total
Yes
No
Wells-Ogunquit school district
Ogunquit
Yes         88 percent  (357 votes)
No          12 percent  (50 votes)
Wells
Yes         81 percent  (713 votes)
No         19 percent  (164 votes)
Total
Yes         83 percent  (1,070 votes)
No         17 percent  (214 votes)
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