Maine elected a record number of women to the Legislature in 2018

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https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/10/politics/there-are-more-women-serving-in-the-maine-legislature-than-ever-before/

Women, especially Democratic women, were elected to office in record numbers in Maine and around the country Tuesday night.

Maine made history with the election of Janet Mills as the state’s first woman governor, and more women will serve in the Maine Legislature than ever before: 72 compared with 64 last year. While that’s well short of half of all seats at the State House, women on both sides of the aisle say they’re excited about having more seats at the table and what it could mean.

In rural Lincoln County, 26-year-old activist Chloe Maxmin, who helped organize the fossil fuel divestiture movement as a college student at Harvard, did something unusual for a Democrat in District 88: she knocked on nearly 10,000 doors over the past nine months, and she won a House seat that had been held by a Republican for the past eight years.

She says the experience left her with a key takeaway.

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