COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the communities of Lewiston (partially).
There are 2,788 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Kristen Cloutier, a Democrat from Lewiston. Rep. Cloutier is the assistant majority leader and has served in the state legislature since being elected in November 2018.
As assistant majority leader, Rep. Cloutier helps lead the 82-member House Democratic Caucus, and her office provides staff and support to all House Democratic members. Prior to her time in the Legislature, she was the mayor and city council president of Lewiston, representing Ward 5. Rep. Cloutier is a class of 2015 alumnae of Emerge Maine, and in 2017 she was awarded their Rising Star Award for her mentorship and support of other women running for elected office. That same year, she was recognized as a Woman of Excellence by the National Foundation of Women Legislators for her work on the Lewiston City Council. In 2019, she was honored with the YWCA of Central Maine’s Lee Young Leadership Award in recognition of her civic, organizational and community leadership. More recently, she was selected for the Council of State Government’s 2022 Henry Toll Fellowship.
Rep. Cloutier serves as a member of the Community Concepts Board of Directors, the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College Community Advisory Board and the Lewiston-Auburn Railroad Board of Directors. She has also served as a mentor for the Maine NEW Leadership Program through the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine.
Rep. Cloutier serves on the legislative council, which is responsible for the overall management of the entire Legislature. The Council is responsible for providing professional, nonpartisan staff support services to the Legislature and its officers, members, committees and commissions. These services include legislative research, bill drafting; policy, legal and fiscal analysis; fiscal note preparation; committee staffing; computer support services; public information; library and reference services and support; and general administrative services. The Legislative Council’s staff is organized into the nonpartisan offices that operate under the direction of the Council’s Executive Director. Other responsibilities delegated by the Legislature to the Council include preparing legislative budget requests and overseeing the legislative budget; establishing salary and benefit schedules for all legislative employees, except as otherwise provided by law; approval of employment practices; planning and oversight of projects designed to improve the organization, operation and physical facilities of the Legislature; and assignment of work to legislative committees when the Legislature is not in session. The Council also has responsibility for screening and approving requests to introduce legislation after cloture (after deadline bills) in any legislative session and exercises this same role for all bill requests prior to their introduction in the second regular session and all special sessions.
Rep. Cloutier is also the chairwoman of the elections committee.
Information for this lawmaker’s biography has been compiled from numerous public sources, including pages maintained by political parties, individual lawmakers and the Maine Legislature.
Contact this lawmaker: Kristen.Cloutier@legislature.maine.gov or 207-807-1637
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat is on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat are Kristen Cloutier (D) and Kendil Snow-Black (R).
View contributions to each candidate, campaign expenditures and campaign filings on the Maine Ethics Commission website.
On Election Night in November, this section will feature live results for this race:
LEGISLATIVE WORK:
The following chart is a compilation of legislation sponsored by Rep. Cloutier during the 131st Legislature. To learn more about each legislation and see where it is in the legislative process, click on the bill ID in the first column. View each vote cast by Rep. Cloutier.
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