From a slate of seven candidates for three Rockport Select Board positions, Rockport voters elected three. Samantha Appleton and Kim Graffam were elected for a three-term, and Linda Greenlaw for a one-year term.

Rockport voters also approved its Rockport's net municipal budget  (see page 21 for a summary) is $12,476,332, down .74 percent from the net municipal budget of 2025-2026, of $13,132.104 million. And, voters approved various land use amendments.

The Select Board votes were:

Three-year term
Samantha Appleton, 932
Kimberlee Graffam, 758
Darren Robbins, 364
Michael Thompson, 310

One-Year Term
Linda Greenlaw, 592
Craig Mitchell, 478
Geoffrey Parker, 303

From a slate of four candidates for the Budget Committee, Rockport voters elected three:
Terry Abrams, 591
William Bow, 448
Clark Doran, 438
Richard Mitchell, 576

In the contested political primary races held in advance of the Nov. 3 general elections, Rockport's Democrats favored Josh Gerritsen for District 41, Patrick Polky for Knox County Sheriff, Natasha Irving for Sixth District Attorney, Hannah Pingree for Governor, and Graham Platner for U.S. Senate.

The Republicans favored Jonathan Bush for Governor and Ronald Russell for Congressional District 1.

The School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) budget is $22,047,687 up $631,873, or 2.94 percent, from the current $21.5 million budget.  Rockport's share is $8,357,657.

YES:  1,052     NO:  419

Rockport voters also approved of the proposed $19,200,174 million Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) budget, up 3.76 percent from the current 2025-2026 budget. Rockport's share is $5,042,620.73

YES:   1,049   NO:  414

Rockport's net municipal budget  (see page 21 for a summary) is $12,476,332, down .74 percent from the net municipal budget of 2025-2026, of $13,132.104 million. The gross appropriations for the municipal budget are $15,851,755, up 5.0% from 2025-2026. 

All the Municipal ordinance amendments passed:

Article 3: Shall the Town adopt the amendments to the Rockport Land use Ordinance Map in accordance with the 2025 Comprehensive Plan? 

YES:   1,142    NO:  272

The proposed zoning map amendment includes many parcels in town that either had two, or more, zone districts over them and are proposed to converge to one district, as well as changing some zone districts over parcels that do not meet the purpose of the existing zone district to a zone district that is more suitable and stays with the character of the area.

Article 4: Shall the Town adopt amendments to the Rockport Subdivision Ordinance?

YES:  1,094     NO:  307

This amendment simplifies the Planning Board subdivision review process, by reducing the number of meetings required from three to four down to one. 

Article 5: Shall the Town adopt amendments to the Rockport Land Ordinance regarding Chapters 300, 800, 900 and 1300?
This article amends the Land Use Ordinance in accordance with implementation of the Comprehensive Plan. Amended areas includes clean up items, definition clarification, a density bonus specific to the 901 Harbor Village District which would allow an additional building story and allow drive through restaurants within 0.5 miles of the Town of Rockland Line and within the 906-zone district with frontage on US-1.

YES:   1,080    NO:  309