AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Senate President Elizabeth “Libby” Mitchell has been nominated by the state’s Democrats to be their candidate for governor.

Mitchell, of Vassalboro, drew about 35 percent of the vote to win the four-way race.

She will face Republican Paul LePage, a favorite of the conservative tea party movement, and three nonparty independents in November in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. John Baldacci.

Mitchell, an attorney, is the first woman in America to serve as both state Senate president and state House speaker. The former teacher served 12 terms in the Legislature and for seven years on the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.