During its first incarnation in the early 20th century, prominent members included naturalist Norman Wallace Lermond of Warren, artist Charles L. Fox of Portland, and writer George Allan England of Woodstock, each of whom ran for governor as Socialist Party nominees.
The party's platform included equal suffrage, public insurance, pensions for mothers and elders, a minimum wage, abolition of the U.S. Senate, equalization of funding for schools, and conservation of water power.
[3] In August of that year, Socialist Party USA members established a local in Southern Maine.
[5] In the 2018 elections, the party nominated Maia Dendinger for Maine Senate in the fifth district.
[6] In 1956, Darlington Hoopes ran as the final nominee of the Socialist Party of America but was not on the Maine ballot.