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128th Maine Senate

2017 to 2018 legislative session

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ28405717 ↗
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The 128th Maine Senate had 35 members each elected to two-year terms in November 2016. The first regular session was sworn in on December 6, 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “128th Maine Senate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.