Pollster · Nonprofit

Maine People's Resource Center

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 4
Latest poll ended: March 31, 2026
Record vs. results, relative: R+1.1

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Maine People's Resource Center describes itself as a Maine nonprofit that trains grassroots leaders and does community organizing, public education, issue advocacy and research; its about page says it is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1984 by leaders of Maine People's Alliance, with which it still partners on campaigns for progressive social change.¹ The about page names three co-directors: Amy Halsted, Jesse Graham and Ben Chin.¹ It releases public polls under its own name: a 2016 survey report says that survey was conducted by phone and online and that the center adheres to the AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices, and a poll release hosted by NOTUS says the center surveyed 1,167 likely Maine voters from March 20 to March 31.^2,3

Kind: Nonprofit¹
Founded: 1984¹

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Founded by

Maine People's Alliance (1984). The center's about page says leaders of Maine People's Alliance founded it in 1984 and that the two organizations partner on local, statewide and national campaigns.¹

Led by

Amy Halsted (2018–now). The about page names Amy Halsted as a co-director since 2018.¹
Jesse Graham (2018–now). The about page says Jesse Graham was executive director from 2006 to 2018 and has been a co-director since.¹
Ben Chin. The about page names Ben Chin as a co-director.¹

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. The center's about page says that as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit it limits itself to permissible nonpartisan, non-electioneering activities, and names no campaign or party clients; the same page says it partners with Maine People's Alliance on campaigns for progressive social change. This rests on the firm's own description.¹

Of its 4 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁴.

§4Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data^5,6: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published as	Polls	Elections	Average miss	Relative to other polls	Typical size of miss	538's last rating
Maine People's Resource Center	14	2010–2016	D+0.5	R+1.1	6.2 pts	1.9 of 3

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§5Its polls

The 4 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	Sample
March 20–March 31, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Graham Platner 48.3 · Susan Collins 39.3	1,167 LV
March 20–March 31, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Susan Collins 45 · Janet Mills 41.9	1,167 LV
October 26–October 29, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Graham Platner 45 · Susan Collins 41	783 RV
October 26–October 29, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Susan Collins 46 · Janet Mills 42	783 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

The about page does not give an office location or say when the center began polling.
The most recent methodology statement found is in a 2016 report; the 2026 release hosted by NOTUS gives no mode, fieldwork vendor or year, and no fieldwork or panel vendor is named anywhere read.
No standing news partners or non-news clients were found beyond its founding tie to Maine People's Alliance; the Maine People's Alliance and Maine Beacon pages carrying its releases returned HTTP 403.
Searches and AAPOR's statements page found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the center.