PORTLAND — Incumbent City Councilor Cheryl Leeman on Tuesday proved why only one person in the last five elections has challenged her for the District 4 seat. Leeman dispatched of challenger Ezekiel Callanan by a more than 2-1 margin, 2,771 to 1,124, earning another three-year term on the council. Incumbent Councilor John Coyne won a […]

TOPSHAM — Voters on Tuesday ousted a pair of incumbents from the Board of Selectmen and School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors. David Douglass Jr., who challenged incumbents Ronald Riendeau and James Trusiani for one of two seats on the Board of Selectmen, led all vote-getters in the selectmen’s race. Riendeau won the second […]

SCARBOROUGH — Neil D. Jamieson Jr. of Scarborough appears to have clinched victory in the race for Cumberland County Commissioner in District 1. With all but one town in the district reporting preliminary results, Jamieson was the victor with 6,741 votes. The runner-up, Annalee Rosenblatt, also of Scarborough, pulled 4,912 votes and Lissa R. Villa […]

PORTLAND — Bradford Cleaves on Tuesday won a seat on the Portland Water District by a more than 2-1 margin. According to preliminary results, Cleaves, of Salem Street, took more than 67 percent of the vote, besting competitor John Safarick, of Ivy Street, by a vote of 9,111 to 4,351. In the race to represent […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Stephen Gorden of North Yarmouth defeated Mark Grover of Gray, 6,899 to 5,617, to become county commissioner in Cumberland County’s new District 3. The seat was created when the County Charter was approved last year and expanded the districts from three to five. District 3 includes Brunswick, Freeport, Gray, Harpswell, New Gloucester, […]

PORTLAND — Incumbent Cheryl Leeman easily dispatched her opponent in the race for the District 4 seat on the City Council. Leeman, who is finishing her 27th year on the council, garnered about 71 percent of the vote. Political neophyte Ezekiel Callanan only netted nearly 28 percent of the vote, falling to the lone Republican […]

PORTLAND — Former state Sen. Michael Brennan received the most first place votes in the race to become Portland’s first popularly elected mayor in nearly 90 years. But he did not win the election, because he didn’t receive more than 50 percent of the vote. The city will conduct an instant runoff starting at 8 […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — About 50 percent of voters elected two incumbents and three newcomers to seats on the Town Council and School Board in uncontested races. Town Councilor David Sherman was re-elected with 2,748 votes and former School Board member Kathy Ray was elected to her first term on the Town Council with 2,720 votes. […]

PORTLAND — Voters strongly supported a $33 million bond to renovate the Cumberland County Civic Center in a referendum Tuesday. On Nov. 8, Cumberland County voters approved the bond referendum 40,217 to 27,791 in unofficial counts, with several small towns not yet reporting. “I’m extremely pleased we were able to get the message out,” said […]

PORTLAND — Three incumbents will return to their seats on the School Board for another three years. In the only contested race in Tuesday’s election, Elizabeth Holton, was re-elected to an at-large seat with more than 60 percent of the vote. Holton received 8,736  votes to 5,747 for Somali women’s advocate and political newcomer Josephine […]