Your Vote 2025

Mainers have enacted a red-flag gun law at the ballot box, with 58.8% of the vote. The Associated Press called the race at 9:55 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2025.

Question 1 failed by large margins in southern and coastal areas but also struggled in some rural parts of western and central Maine.

Alongside the statewide questions, voters will decide multiple local elections including whether to implement a $19-per-hour minimum wage in Portland.

On Tuesday, Maine voters will settle long-running policy debates over voter ID and guns during an off-year election that has been overshadowed by events in DC and primary contests that won't be decided until next year.

Maine voters will cast ballots on two statewide referendum questions as well as local races during the off-year election.

County officials said after years of poor accounting practices, it's the only way to pay off the county's debt and keep critical operations running.

The Wabanaki Alliance has come out in opposition to Question 1 on November’s ballot, warning that the Wabanaki nations would be harmed by changes to absentee voting and its exclusion of tribal IDs as a valid form of voter identification.

Proponents of Question 2 argue that the existing law — often referred to as Maine’s yellow flag law — is a failed experiment that was not used to stop a gunman in Lewiston from killing 18 people and injuring and traumatizing countless others in 2023 despite warnings about his deteriorating mental health.

What to know about Question 1, which proposes state law changes to voter ID, absentee voting, and drop box use

The competing narratives about Question 1’s true objectives and potential impacts are perhaps best epitomized by the names of the groups leading the fight on either side: Voter ID for ME and the Save Maine Absentee Voting Coalition.