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View MoreElrich leads at-large council race after executive tenure ends
Term-limited County Executive Marc Elrich holds an unofficial lead in the four-seat at-large Montgomery County Council race, joined by Laurie-Anne Sayles, Scott Goldberg and Karla Silvestre, though roughly 35,000 mail-in ballots remain uncounted.
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View MoreRaskin wins sixth term, positioned to lead House Judiciary
Rep. Jamie Raskin won re-election with 83% of the vote and is in line to chair the House Judiciary Committee when Democrats take control of the chamber in January. In Bethesda's District 16, delegates Marc Korman, Sarah Wolek and Teresa Woorman also won re-election.
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View MoreWomen broke barriers on election night 2026
The victories put new leaders in charge of policy – and raise a harder question for the political establishment: whose judgment about viable candidates deserves to be trusted?
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View MoreHistoric Democratic blue wave reshapes Washington and the states
Democrats break Republican strongholds in Senate and governor races. Dems likely to control both chambers of Congress.
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View MoreMontgomery District 3 school board results: McCarthy ahead in unofficial returns
Sally McCarthy led Cassi Sung in unofficial countywide results, with 257 of 257 election day precincts reporting and provisional votes unreported.
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View MoreDOJ sends election monitors to Prince George's, not Montgomery
Montgomery County is not on the Department of Justice's published list of jurisdictions receiving federal election monitors on Nov. 3, though neighboring Prince George's County is the sole Maryland jurisdiction included in the DOJ's largest-ever deployment of approximately 1,000 monitors to all 50 states.
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View MoreMoCo school board candidate Diaz has two state tax liens
Montgomery County Board of Education at-large candidate Brenda M. Diaz has two state tax liens totaling nearly $10,000 on a Gaithersburg property, according to a Capital News Service investigation. Diaz says the assessment may be in error.
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View MoreSullivan targets Yang's school board record in new District 1 mailer
Republican Reardon Sullivan has released a new contrast mailer criticizing Democrat Julie Yang's school board record in the Montgomery County Council District 1 race, one week before the Nov. 3 election.
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View MoreMarc Korman seeks reelection to District 16 delegate seat
Democrat Marc Korman is seeking reelection to represent District 16 in the Maryland House of Delegates. He has served in the House since 2015.
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View MoreSally McCarthy seeks MCPS board District 3 seat
Sally A. McCarthy, an education policy researcher and Chevy Chase resident, is running for the Montgomery County Public School Board District 3 seat in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election, emphasizing reading instruction, school facilities and smaller class sizes.
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View MoreBrenda Diaz seeks MCPS board at-large seat in 2026
Brenda M. Diaz, a Montgomery County social studies teacher, is running for the at-large seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election.
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View MoreOmar Lazo seeks MCPS board at-large seat in 2026
Omar Lazo, who says he served as a Montgomery College trustee, is running for the Montgomery County Board of Education at-large seat in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election, emphasizing fentanyl prevention, educator support and budget transparency.
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