ELLSWORTH – Hancock County’s legislative delegation will include some familiar faces along with a few new legislators after Tuesday’s election.

Incumbents retained their seats in the House and Senate, while two first-time county representatives will join the delegation, partly because of the results in two House districts reorganized after the last census.

Republican Richard Rosen of Bucksport will be a familiar face in a different post. A three-time state representative, Rosen dropped his bid for re-election to seek the state Senate seat in District 31 after incumbent Republican Ed Youngblood chose not to seek re-election.

Rosen won handily with 61 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Earl Sherwood, 9,948-6,244.

Democrat Dennis Damon retained his seat in Senate District 28, defeating Republican challenger John Linnehan.

With Rosen running for the senate, his seat in House District 40 was open. His wife, Republican Kimberly Rosen, received the nomination to run for that vacant seat. She won the election by 8 percentage points with 2,729 votes to 2,288 votes for Democrat Scott Frazier.

Democrats picked up two seats in reorganized House Districts 37 and 41, which had been shuffled in the reorganization. In the county’s only three-way legislative race, Democrat James Schatz of Blue Hill won in District 37. Schatz received 2,632 votes, or 47 percent, of the vote. Republican Denis Blodgett garnered 37 percent of the vote with 2,098 votes and Green Independent Party candidate Steven West got 16 percent, or 876 votes.

West’s showing was strong as the only Green candidate in the county. He improved on the 2002 showing in which the Green candidate received 14.6 percent of the vote in a close race between Schatz and Republican Eugene Churchill.

With Orland no longer in the district, replaced by the town of Sedgwick as part of the redistricting, the Green vote, generally assumed to pull votes from Democrats, did not have as big an impact on the outcome.

Redistricting pulled the towns of Orland and Verona from the former District 128 and combined them with Waldo County towns of Frankfort Prospect, Stockton Springs and Searsport to form House District 41. Orland Republican Eugene Churchill, the incumbent, chose not to seek re-election.

Democrat Kent Price won the seat in that district winning 1,899 to 1,624 over Republican Kenneth Lindell.

Incumbent Democrats Hannah Pingree and Theodore Koffman won easily in their respective races. In House District 36, which includes coastal towns in Hancock and Knox counties, Pingree pulled in 70 percent of the vote, defeating Republican John Bradford 3,770 to 1,640.

In District 35, on Mount Desert Island, Koffman, with 66 percent of the vote, defeated challenger Republican Caspar Weinberger Jr., 3,632 to 1,874.

Incumbent Republicans Robert Crosthwaite and Earl Bierman also won by comfortable margins. Crosthwaite defeated challenger Democrat Dan Shaw, 2,974 to 2,135 to retain his seat in House District 38. Bierman beat Democrat Arthur Keenan, 2,826 to 1,822.