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Troy Jackson’s Victory Flips Maine Senate Seat as Democrats Prepare to Take Control
By Eleanor Ever Loyal
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Troy Jackson, a Democrat and Maine’s senator-elect for the incoming 120th Congress, will arrive in Washington after defeating Republican Sen. Susan Collins and flipping a Senate seat from Republican to Democratic control.
Jackson’s victory was part of an election in which seven Senate seats flipped from Republican to Democratic control. Democrats are set to hold the Senate by a 55–44 margin, with one race, in Alaska, still uncalled.
The new Congress is scheduled to be sworn in on January 3, 2027, when Jackson is set to take his seat in the Senate.
Before his election to the Senate, Jackson built a record in Maine state government. He served in the Maine Senate and became its president, after earlier serving in the Maine House of Representatives.
Outside and alongside his political career, Jackson worked as a logger in Maine.
His path from the state Legislature and Maine’s logging industry to the U.S. Senate will now place him among the incoming members of a Congress shaped by the Democratic gains of the 2026 election.
What is established is that Jackson defeated an incumbent Republican senator, helping produce one of seven Republican-to-Democratic Senate seat flips and contributing to the Democratic majority that will take office with the 120th Congress.
Jackson’s election is the subject of this installment of The Library Media’s The New Congressional Class series, profiling newly elected members of the 120th Congress.
Eleanor Ever Loyal
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