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Hannah Pingree:
A Proven Leader for Maine

Hannah Pingree has spent her career stepping up when Maine families needed a champion, showing that real results come from hard work, collaboration, and listening to people. From serving as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives to chairing her local school board to working in Governor Mills’ administration, Hannah has a record of delivering for Maine people. She’s a mom of two great teenage kids in public school and a leader who never backs down from a fight against powerful interests or tackling big problems.

In tough times, Maine needs tough leaders. Hannah Pingree has spent nearly 25 years taking on the biggest challenges to protect Maine families, fight corporate greed, all the while bringing people together around solutions and getting things done. Learn more about how she’s—

Taking on Big Corporations

As the youngest woman in the country to be elected Speaker of the House, Hannah faced down corporate lobbyists and an all-out campaign from the chemical industry to pass landmark legislation keeping Maine kids safe. The Kid-Safe Products Act was a nation-leading law to remove toxic chemicals from everyday toys and clothing, protecting the health of our children. She has never shied away from a big fight, even against powerful allies, and she even garnered bipartisan support in a coalition to win.

Hannah has taken on the pharmaceutical industry to lower prescription drug costs for Maine families, she’s fought against private equity companies trying to buy up mobile home parks, and she’s battled the fossil fuel industry to take climate action. Her fearless advocacy and proven record mean Maine families can count on her to keep fighting for what matters most.

Working to Make Maine More Affordable

Everywhere you go, people are talking about the same thing: the cost of living in Maine is too high and families are struggling to make ends meet. Housing is out of reach for too many, utility bills keep climbing, and health care remains one of the greatest financial burdens people face. Hannah knows that Mainers aren’t looking for excuses or political talk, they’re looking for someone who can tackle these costs with a real plan and action.

As Speaker of the Maine House and in statewide leadership roles, she secured hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing, helped deliver property tax relief to Maine families, and worked to lower prescription drug and health care costs by expanding consumer protections and access to coverage. She’s taken on powerful interests to make sure working people aren’t left paying the price.

As governor, Hannah will take on the corporate interests that drive up costs and stand in the way of progress. She’ll push to build more housing that Maine families can actually afford, hold grid operators accountable for rising energy bills, and fight to lower health insurance premiums, reduce out-of-pocket costs, and expand access to reliable, affordable coverage with a public option and consumer protections. She’ll bring practical, Maine-tested solutions to the table and work with anyone to deliver results.

For Hannah, affordability isn’t a talking point. It’s a commitment to the families she’s spent her career fighting for.

Fighting for Attainable and Affordable Housing

Hannah has been a relentless advocate for housing that Maine families can afford. As a legislator, she helped secure one of the first state-funding sources for affordable housing production. In her hometown, she led efforts to build affordable rentals and ownership homes for seniors and working families, and later, in Governor Mills’ administration, she spearheaded the largest pipeline of new housing in production in MaineHousing’s 50-year history. She also fought to keep mobile home communities affordable, by helping them form co-ops, a model gaining traction across the state.

But she knows there’s more to do, read her comprehensive Housing Affordability Plan here. 

Protecting Health Care and Reproductive Rights

From the Legislature to the Governor’s office, Hannah has always fought to make health care more accessible and affordable. As Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, she worked to expand coverage for young adults, protected essential women’s health services, ended lifetime insurance limits, and challenged big drug companies to reduce prescription costs. Early in her career, she introduced legislation to ensure reproductive access, defend abortion as a human right and protect Maine families from threats to their health and autonomy. Hannah has a 100% voting record with Planned Parenthood.

Throughout her career, Hannah has proven herself a steadfast champion for health care, ready to deliver real results for Maine families. As governor, Hannah will take on the big insurance companies, fight for a public health insurance option and invest in our health care workforce and provide greater support for primary care—ensuring every Mainer can access affordable, high-quality care, no matter where they live or how much they earn.

Ready to Advance Tribal Sovereignty

Hannah supports full tribal sovereignty and would work with Tribal Nations and the Legislature to pass legislation within the first 100 days in office. She believes the Wabanaki Nations deserve the same rights and opportunities as every other federally recognized tribe — not only as a matter of fairness and justice, but to build a stronger future for all. Hannah has partnered with Tribal leaders and governments on climate resilience and clean energy, and she would work to expand collaboration on economic development, health care, infrastructure, natural resources, and environmental protection.

BRINGING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES

After leaving the legislature due to term limits, Hannah helped run a family small business gaining firsthand experience with the challenges Maine small business owners face every day.

As Director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, Hannah helped lead Maine’s historic Jobs and Recovery Plan, putting over $211 million directly into businesses, workforce training for 26,000 Mainers, and more than 700 job-creating infrastructure projects. She helped expand career and technical education, invest in Maine’s community colleges, create thousands of child care and pre-K slots, and improve connections between workers and employers. Maine was among the first states in New England to put federal recovery funds to work, showing how practical, results-driven leadership can make a real difference for families and small businesses.

Her work went beyond immediate economic recovery. Hannah guided Maine’s climate resilience efforts, supported workforce development and innovation, and helped small businesses rebound after the 2023–2024 winter storms. She supported the work of the Maine Technology Institute, higher education programs, and initiatives through the Office for New Americans to prepare Maine workers for the jobs of the future. Across every project, her focus has been clear: create opportunity, support Maine’s workers and small businesses, and strengthen the backbone of Maine’s economy.

Championing Equality and Fairness

Since her earliest days in the Legislature, Hannah has been a leader for fairness and equality in Maine. As Speaker, she confronted opposition in her own party to lead the fight in the Legislature and pass one of the nation’s first marriage equality laws. She has fought for protections for LGBTQ+ Mainers, including nondiscrimination in housing, employment, and public services, as well as inheritance and domestic partner rights. Hannah has always stood for equality and justice, ensuring every LGBTQ+ Mainer can live openly, safely, and with the full rights and protections they deserve, and she always will.

Putting Kids and Families First

Hannah believes that giving Maine kids a strong start is the foundation of our state’s future. She chaired her local school board, helped launch a child-care center in her community, and always brought that commitment with her to Augusta, where she helped re-start the Children’s Cabinet improving coordination across state agencies to better support Maine kids and their families. She has championed quality education at every level, advocating for increased school funding and higher teacher pay, strengthening Maine’s public schools, and expanding investments in CTE programs, training programs and apprenticeships, tuition reimbursement and other affordability initiatives, community colleges, and universities so every student has a pathway to opportunity.

Hannah also helped Maine create thousands of new child-care and pre-K slots through the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan, opening doors for families who’ve struggled to find affordable, reliable care. She has been a leading voice for children’s health and well-being, from passing the Kid-Safe Products Act to supporting the statewide Plan to End Hunger by 2030.

For Hannah, as a working-mom and leader, supporting kids and families isn’t a talking point, it’s been the work of her entire career.

Caring for Older Mainers

Hannah knows that every Mainer deserves to age with dignity, independence, and support. That’s why she helped launch Maine’s first Cabinet on Aging to coordinate state efforts on housing, health care, and community supporters, recognizing that Maine has the oldest population in the nation and tens of thousands of people will be retiring in the coming years. Hannah understands that older Mainers bring tremendous experience to our state and communities, and she believes efforts to continue to support programs that engage older Mainers in our workforce, our schools, and non-profits are crucial.

During her time in the Legislature, Hannah worked to lower prescription drug costs, expand property tax relief, support Maine’s long-term care system, and invest in programs that help seniors stay safely in their homes, connected to their communities, and financially secure. And in her own community she helped develop a small elder care facility, so seniors could age with dignity without having to leave their hometown.

Hannah will always advance solutions that protect seniors’ independence, strengthen their communities, and honor their contributions to Maine life.

Standing with Maine’s Workers

Hannah knows that Maine’s workers are essential to strong communities, our economy, our schools and state government. She believes that unions and organized labor are essential to building economic security and opportunity across the state. Throughout her career, she has stood with Maine workers, advocating for fair wages, benefits, and the right to organize. She had a 100% voting record with the Maine AFL-CIO during her time in the Legislature. She worked with Firefighters to secure health benefits, and they were essential allies in her fight against the chemical industry to remove toxic chemicals in consumer products.

Hannah has championed workforce training programs, pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships, strengthened Career and Technical Education programs, invested in community colleges, and expanded programs to help people get transportation to work through the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan.

Hannah will always stand with Maine workers. She will fight for fair pay and benefits, work to increase protections for workers’ rights and bargaining power, and she will continue to partner with unions and workers to expand good-paying job opportunities, secure affordable health care, quality educational opportunities, and liveable wages.

EXPANDING VOTING RIGHTS AND STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY

Democracy works best when every eligible voter can participate and every vote is counted fairly. At a critical moment for our country, Hannah believes our elections should reflect the will of the people and make it simple for Mainers to have their voices heard.

As a legislator, Hannah cosponsored early ranked choice voting legislation, helping lay the groundwork for the system we use today. In the wake of the 2000 elections, she sponsored legislation to require paper records for ballots so every vote could be verified and counted accurately. That work has proven critical in close races and recounts over time. She also cosponsored legislation to establish permanent absentee ballot status and early voting, expanding access to the ballot for seniors, people with disabilities, and working families by making it easier to vote in every election.

As governor, she will be on the frontline of protecting our democracy, from ensuring fair elections to standing up against efforts that undermine our fundamental voting rights.

Building Strong Communities and Resilient Infrastructure

As a lifelong resident of a working waterfront community, Hannah understands firsthand the challenges Maine families and businesses face when storms and economic pressures hit. When storms devastated Maine’s working waterfronts in December 2023 and January 2024, she stepped up, leading state efforts to rebuild businesses, waterfronts and community infrastructure while strengthening protections for the future. She was the driving force behind a $60 million relief package—the largest investment in storm recovery in Maine history. 

Under her leadership, the state established a commission that produced Maine’s first-ever plan to strengthen infrastructure resilience, and in 2025, she led efforts to pass LD 1, landmark bi-partisan legislation she designed to improve community preparedness and resilience for future storms for homeowners, communities, and businesses. She’s had communities’ backs at every step, launching a grant program that’s awarded nearly $19 million to fund local investments in resilience, clean energy, and energy efficiency projects—benefiting more than 250 Maine communities and Tribal governments.

Hannah has also championed broader investments to strengthen Maine communities. As Speaker of the House, she advanced legislation to expand broadband access and supported legislation creating the Efficiency Maine Trust to promote energy efficiency across the state.

Hannah will always fight to ensure Maine communities are resilient, connected, and ready for the challenges ahead.

Standing Up for Maine’s Environment, Climate Action, and Energy Independence

Hannah has spent her career fighting for Maine’s people and the natural resources that define our state. She has taken on big oil companies, the chemical industry, and other powerful interests—and won—because protecting our air, our water, our health, and our communities has always been central to her work. It’s why Maine Conservation Voters Action Fund endorsed her in the Democratic primary, the first time in their history they have endorsed in a governor’s race at this stage. They cited her unmatched record, her courage, and her steady leadership.

As a legislator and Speaker of the House, Hannah passed major environmental health laws like the Kid-Safe Products Act, advanced Maine’s first meaningful greenhouse gas reduction targets, invested in clean water, and sponsored a Land for Maine’s Future bond that protected working waterfronts, family farms, forestland, and the open spaces that are essential to Maine’s heritage economy and recreational opportunities.

As co-chair of the Maine Climate Council, she helped shape Maine Won’t Wait into a national model. Her leadership earned Maine national recognition, when energy experts rated the state “Most Improved” on energy efficiency. She championed the effort to install more than 100,000 heat pumps – two years ahead of state goals, invest in weatherization and energy efficiency, expand affordable clean energy projects in towns and schools, support active and public transportation opportunities – all to reduce emissions, increase Maine’s energy independence, and lower costs for families and businesses. 

Hannah also launched the Community Resilience Partnership, which has now helped more than 250 towns prepare for storms, strengthen local infrastructure, and plan for a changing climate. She pushed for stronger storm preparedness and coastal resilience long before the devastating storms of 2023 and 2024, and she has continued standing with communities as they rebuild stronger.

For Hannah, this work comes down to core Maine values: responsibility, fairness, and protecting people and places for the next generation. As governor, she will carry those values forward by holding corporate polluters accountable, lowering energy costs, encouraging local clean energy jobs and industries, and safeguarding Maine’s environment and democracy in the face of growing threats.

Hannah Pingree has always put Maine people first — taking on powerful interests, protecting our communities, and delivering results that matter. And as Maine’s next governor, she always will.