Who raised what, from the state’s own filings.

How to read this

Maine candidates for governor and the Legislature register and report with the Maine Ethics Commission. Since 2026 the Commission's filings are kept in the Maine Campaign Finance Disclosure System, built and run for it by MapLight; the Commission's website links to a public datasets page (hosted on MapLight's help site) where the Commission posts CSV exports of every itemized 2026 transaction on filed reports, updated about daily. We saved those exports unchanged and recomputed every figure from them with scripts/build_summary.py; no figure is read from a summary page. What the figures are: money raised and spent in calendar year 2026 through Oct. 20, 2026, not whole-campaign totals. The exports hold only transactions dated in 2026, so 2025 fundraising and spending (much of it reported on the Commission's earlier system, mainecampaignfinance.com, which did not answer us) is missing, and cash on hand cannot be computed: no opening balance is in the data. 'Raised' is itemized monetary contributions less contributions returned. Loans, in-kind contributions, bank interest, transfers from a candidate's previous campaign and, for Maine Clean Election Act (MCEA) candidates, the public MCEA payments from the state are each shown separately and never counted as money raised. 'Spent' is expenditures plus payments on earlier debts less returned expenditures; loan repayments are shown separately. The Commission's exports include itemized transactions only; contributions of $50 or less that a campaign reported as a lump sum may be missing, so 'raised' can understate small-dollar money. Maine has no statewide ballot question on Nov. 3, 2026, so there are no ballot question committee accounts.

Raised, spent and cash on hand are different measures from the same reports and are never added together. Loans are shown on their own and are not counted as money raised. Periods differ between accounts when committees file on different schedules.

Source: Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices (Maine Ethics Commission), Maine Campaign Finance Disclosure System and its public datasets.

What is not here yet

• Cash on hand is not given for any account. The Commission shows each filer's current cash balance on its profile page in the Maine Campaign Finance Disclosure System (mainecampaignfinancedisclosure.com), but that site answered our requests with a Cloudflare browser challenge (HTTP 403), which we did not try to get around, and our web reader was not permitted to open it. The cash balance cannot be recomputed from the datasets, which hold 2026 transactions only and no opening balance.
• Money from 2025 is missing. The Commission's datasets cover transactions dated Jan. 1, 2026 on; the governor candidates' 2025 activity (reported in the July 2025 and January 2026 semiannual reports) is not in them. The Commission's earlier campaign finance site, mainecampaignfinance.com, returned HTTP 522 (origin unreachable) on Oct. 30, 2026, so no 2025 figures were pulled. Figures here are therefore 2026 figures, not campaign totals; the 'reported' totals in the national data cover a different span and must not be compared with them as if they measured the same thing.
• The datasets hold itemized transactions only. If a campaign reported contributions of $50 or less as one lump sum rather than itemizing them, that money is not in 'raised'. We could not check the reports themselves (profile pages blocked).
• We could not see which reports each campaign has filed (the filings list is on the blocked profile page). The period figures assume each candidate's 11-Day Pre-General report (due Oct. 23) was on file when the dataset was published; an account with no transactions dated Sept. 16-Oct. 20 is named below.
• The Commission's 'All Filers' transaction exports posted Oct. 28 and Oct. 29, 2026 are 1-byte files; the legislative figures use the Oct. 27, 2026 8:00 AM export, two days older than the governor export. Late-filed 11-Day Pre-General reports that arrived after Oct. 27 8:00 AM would be missing for legislative candidates.
• Legislative candidates are matched to Commission filers by chamber, district and last name, using the Secretary of State's general-election list (July 27, 2026, which the Secretary of State says already drops withdrawn primary winners and adds replacements; withdrawals list updated Sept. 22). Separate special-election accounts are excluded. A verifier should spot-check the matches.
• Declared write-in candidates for governor (John Glowa, Randy Wilcox) are not printed on the ballot; they are included with ballot_status 'declared write-in' because the Secretary of State lists them and they have Commission accounts.
• The Commission's 'Primary Cash-on-Hand' dataset (saved; posted again Oct. 26, 2026) gives per-candidate totals and a cash balance in whole dollars, but it is not used because it is not current and does not say what date it reflects. For example, it lists Hannah Pingree's monetary contributions for the 2026 primary as $649,626.00; the gubernatorial transactions dataset has $981,934.79 in itemized 2026 monetary contributions designated for the primary, and its running total first reaches the older figure with contributions dated 2026-05-27, around the end of the 11-Day Pre-Primary period (May 26, 2026). Its 'all elections' columns, which include pre-2026 money, show that the governor candidates raised substantial sums before 2026 that this summary's 2026 figures leave out.
• Randy Wilcox (declared write-in for governor) has no itemized 2026 transactions in the Commission's gubernatorial dataset; no figures are shown for him, which is not the same as zero.
• 18 legislative candidates on the ballot have no itemized 2026 transactions in the all-filers dataset; they are listed with empty figures (not zero). This can mean little or no activity or a reporting exemption, which candidates who stay under the Commission's threshold may request; we could not check their profile pages: Jaric Fontaine (state senator, District 10); Scott Eccleston (state senator, District 31); Nicole Richards (state representative, District 9); Jonathan Goble (state representative, District 18); Anthony Weaver (state representative, District 25); John Contreni (state representative, District 30); James McClymer (state representative, District 34); Clifton Foster III (state representative, District 36); David Sinclair (state representative, District 50); Robin Crawley (state representative, District 61); Brett Barrett (state representative, District 100); Lauren Jones (state representative, District 112); Yusuf Yusuf (state representative, District 118); Meagan Smith (state representative, District 121); Scott Doherty (state representative, District 124); Kelly Murphy (state representative, District 125); Morgan Rielly (state representative, District 127); Michelle Conners (state representative, District 136).

Gaps in the campaign finance records as of the date checked.