In addition to deciding on candidates for two Town Council seats and two School Committee seats, voters decided on one local question, a citizens’ initiative, one bond question, and one constitutional amendment.
Below is the breakdown of how Gorham voted on November 2. Bold denotes the overall winner(s). For more detailed voting information by ward, please visit www.gorham-me.org.
TOWN COUNCIL:
Philip Gagnon – 1709
Lee Pratt – 2321
Paul Smith – 1325
Virginia Wilder Cross – 2173
SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Anne Schools – 2717
Leisl Turner – 1833
Darryl Wright – 2184
LOCAL QUESTION 1:
Shall the Town of Gorham be authorized to expend not more than $575,000 from the school capital reserve fund and not more than $244,900 from undesignated fund balance in addition to the $2,265,000 in funding from bond approved by referendum in 2020 for the Gorham Middle School HVAC Heat Pump Upgrade and Repair Project?
Yes – 3775
No – 1180
STATE REFERENDUM QUESTIONS:
Question 1: Do you want to ban the construction of high-impact electric transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec Region and to require the Legislature to approve all other such projects anywhere in Maine, both retroactively to 2020, and to require the Legislature, retroactively to 2014, to approve by a two-thirds vote such projects using public land?
Yes – 2785
No – 2342
Question 2: Do you favor a $100,000,000 bond issue to build or improve roads, bridges, railroads, airports, transit facilities and ports and make other transportation investments, to be used to leverage an estimated $253,000,000 in federal and other funds?
Yes – 3693
No – 1438
Question 3: Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being?
Yes – 2764
No – 2315