Maine State Senate District 19

COMMUNITY PROFILE:

This district serves the Oxford County communities of Andover, Bethel, Buckfield, Byron, Canton, Dixfield, Gilead, Greenwood, Hanover, Hartford, Lincoln Plantation, Lovell, Magalloway Plantation, Mexico, Milton Township, Newry, North Oxford UT, Peru, Roxbury, Rumford, South Oxford UT, Stoneham, Stow, Sumner, Upton, West Paris and Woodstock.

This district also serves the Franklin County communities of Avon, Carthage, Coplin Plantation, Dallas Plantation, Eustis, Jay, North Franklin UT, Phillips, Rangeley, Rangeley Plantation, Sandy River Plantation, South Franklin UT, Temple, Weld and West Central Franklin UT.

A map showing which communities are in this legislative district.

There are 26,397 actively registered voters within this district:

CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:

Lisa Keim, a Republican from Dixfield. Sen. Keim is the assistant minority leader and has served in the state legislature since being elected in November YEAR.

headshot of Lisa Keim.

Sen. Keim is a member of the New England Board of Higher Education’s (NEBHE) Legislative Advisory Committee, is a state director for Women in Government, and serves on the Council of State Governments (CSG) East Executive Committee. She is a graduate of the 2017 Eastern Leadership Academy, and is also a Henry Toll Fellow. She has also served as chair of the Working Group to Improve the Provision of Indigent Legal Services, the Right to Know Advisory Commission, and the Criminal Records Review Advisory Committee.

Sen. Keim serves on the senate rules committee and on the government oversight committee. The mission of the Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee, hereafter called the “Committee”, is to oversee program evaluation and government accountability matters in State government. The Committee seeks to ensure that public funds are expended for intended purposes, and that programs and activities are effectively, efficiently and economically managed. The Committee accomplishes this mission by conducting public inquiries and directing the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability to conduct independent, objective reviews of State agencies and programs and other entities receiving public funds or expending private monies for public purposes.

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: Lisa.Keim@legislature.maine.gov or 207-562-6023

ELECTIONS 2024:

This seat is on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat are Bruce Bryant (D) and Joseph Martin (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 also feature live results for this race.

LEGISLATIVE WORK:

The following chart is a compilation of legislation sponsored by Sen. Keim 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 Sen. Keim.

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