Result
Rep. Ann Matlack (D-St. George) won the open Maine Senate District 12 seat on Tuesday, Nov. 3, defeating independent Nicole Kalloch with 58.9% of the vote. Unofficial results show Matlack with 11,924 votes to Kalloch’s 8,313, or 41.1%.
The seat opened when Democratic Sen. Pinny Beebe-Center of Rockland, who has held it since 2022, did not seek reelection. Matlack, a four-term state representative, was unopposed in the June 9 Democratic primary, and no Republican appeared on the November ballot. She will take office when the new Legislature convenes Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Candidates and Platforms
Matlack has represented House District 43, which includes St. George, Cushing, Thomaston, South Thomaston and part of Owls Head, since 2022 after first winning a House seat in 2018. She sits on the Appropriations and Taxation committees, and before the Legislature she was assistant to Rockland’s city manager and served 10 years on the Knox County budget committee. She backed permanent state funding for LifeFlight, the medical air transport service.
Kalloch, a former Republican running as an independent, is a two-term Rockland city councilor whose colleagues chose her as mayor. She manages the Sierra Peaks manufacturing plant in Rockland and focused her campaign on affordability and keeping young people in Maine.
District and Chamber
District 12 includes all of Knox County except Isle au Haut and Washington. Statewide, Democrats kept control of the Maine Senate, winning at least 18 of 35 seats as of Nov. 4 and flipping four Republican-held seats, according to the Associated Press.
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