Result
Rep. Traci Gere (D-Kennebunkport) has won a fourth term in Maine House District 134, defeating independent Allen Daggett on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Unofficial results show Gere with 3,429 votes, or 63.8%, to Daggett’s 1,946, or 36.2%.
Her share was in line with her earlier wins. Gere beat Republican Elizabeth Jordan twice, with 63.1% in 2022 and 62% in 2024, after first winning in 2020 in what was then District 9. Her new two-year term begins Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Candidates and Platforms
Gere chairs the Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee. A development consultant educated at Brown University and Boston University, she works as a strategic development advisor for Maine MILL and previously owned a Kennebunkport business and led the arts nonprofit River Tree Arts. This spring she sponsored laws to promote investment in housing and to support owners of manufactured housing, mobile homes and tiny homes.
In the Portland Press Herald’s Maine Voter Guide, Gere listed housing, environmental protection and an economy that provides jobs and affordability as the priorities she hears most from constituents.
Daggett, who is not enrolled in a party, ran as an independent with traditional campaign financing rather than public Clean Elections funds. Gere ran as a Clean Elections candidate.
District and Chamber
District 134 covers Kennebunkport and parts of Kennebunk and Biddeford in York County and has 7,186 actively registered voters. Statewide, Democrats expanded their House majority on Nov. 3, winning at least 85 of the 151 seats, up from 76 last session, based on races called by The Associated Press.
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