Montgomery County Election 2022: County Executive Race, Legal Weed, Term Limits

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — Maryland's general election is on Nov. 8, meaning there are dozens of positions on the ballot in Montgomery County.

Voters will decide their next county executive and county council members. Several local offices in the Maryland General Assembly are also up for grabs.

Statewide races include those for governor, comptroller and attorney general. Federal contests feature battles for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

Here is everything you need to know about the 2022 Maryland general election in Montgomery County.

What District Am I In?

Voters can see which districts they live in by using this tool. That resource also tells Marylanders their:

• Review their voter registration record.
• Request a duplicate voter registration card.
• Learn where to vote.
• Find out their voting districts
• See their current state and federal representatives.
• Contact your local board of elections.
• Check the status of their mail-in or provisional ballot.
• View their sample ballot.

Montgomery County residents can click here to see who their county council member is.

Who Is Running For County Government?

All the candidates are posted below. The names of incumbents are bolded and starred.

Patch asked every county executive and County Council candidate to complete a questionnaire. The names of candidates who completed our survey are linked to their responses.

We also included all the campaign websites listed on the Maryland State Board of Elections candidate portal.

County Executive

• Reardon Sullivan (R)
• Marc Elrich (D)*

County Council At Large - Vote for up to 4

• Christopher P. Flotes (R)
• Lenard Lieber (R)
• Dwight Patel (R)
• Gabe Albornoz (D)*
• Evan Glass (D)*
• Will Jawando (D)*
• Laurie-Anne Sayles (D)
• Dan Robinson (G)

County Council District 1

• Andrew Friedson (D)*

County Council District 2

• Dan Cuda (R)
• Marilyn Balcombe (D)

County Council District 3

• George Hernandez (R)
• Sidney A. Katz (D)*

County Council District 4

• Cheryl Riley (R)
• Kate Stewart (D)

County Council District 5

• Kate Woody (R)
• Kristin Mink (D)

County Council District 6

• Viet H. Doan (R)
• Natali Fani Gonzalez (D)

County Council District 7

• Harold C. Maldonado (R)
• Dawn Luedtke (D)

County State's Attorney

• John McCarthy (D)*

Clerk of the Circuit Court

• Karen Bushell (D)*

Register of Wills

• Joseph M. Griffin (D)*

Sheriff

• Maxwell Cornelius Uy (D)

Board of Education At Large

• Mike Erickson
• Karla Silvestre*

Board of Education District 1

• Grace Rivera Oven
• Esther L. Wells

Board of Education District 3

• Scott Joftus*
• Julie Yang

Board of Education District 5

• Valerie M. Coll
• Brenda Wolf*

Who Is Running For State Government?

Governor/Lt. Governor

• Dan Cox/ Gordana Schifanelli (R)
• Wes Moore/Aruna Miller (D)
• David Lashar/Christiana Logansmith (L)
• Nancy Wallace/Patrick Elder (G)
• David Harding/Cathy White (WCP)

Comptroller

• Barry Glassman (R): barryglassman.com
• Brooke Elizabeth Lierman (D): brookelierman.com

Attorney General

• Michael Anthony Peroutka (R): facebook.com/patriots4peroutka
• Anthony G. Brown (D): anthonybrown.com

State Senate District 14

• Alex Bieber (R)
• Craig J. Zucker (D)*

State Senate District 15

• David Wilson (R)
• Brian J. Feldman (D)*

State Senate District 16

• Susan C. Lee (D)*

State Senate District 17

• Cheryl C. Kagan (D)*

State Senate District 18

• Missy Carr (R)
• Jeff Waldstreicher (D)*

State Senate District 19

• Anita M. Cox (R)
• Ben Kramer (D)*
• David George Jeang (G)

State Senate District 20

• Will Smith (D)*

State Senate District 39

• Nancy J. King (D)*
• Moshe Landman (G)

State House District 14 - Vote for up to 3

• Kathy Gugulis (R)
• Kate Walshe (R)
• Anne R. Kaiser (D)*
• Eric Luedtke (D)*
• Pamela Queen (D)*

State House District 15 - Vote for up to 3

• Jodi Colella Noah (R)
• Stacey Sauter (R)
• Matt Wade (R)
• Linda Foley (D)*
• David Fraser-Hidalgo (D)*
• Lily Qi (D)*

State House District 16 - Vote for up to 3

• Arian Kelly (D)*
• Mark Korman (D)*
• Sara N. Love (D)*

State House District 17

• Helene F. Meister (R)
• Donald "DP" Patti (R)
• Kumar P. Barve (D)*
• Julie Palakovich Carr (D)*
• Joe Vogel (D)

State House District 18 - Vote for up to 3

• George M. Cecala (R)
• Aaron M. Kaufman (D)
• Emily Shetty (D)*
• Jared Solomon (D)*
• Jon Foreman (G)

State House District 19 - Vote for up to 3

• Frank Nice (R)
• Charlotte Crutchfield (D)*
• Bonnie Cullison (D)*
• Vaughn Stewart (D)*

State House District 20 - Vote for up to 3

• Lorig Charkoudian (D)*
• David Moon (D)*
• Jheanelle Wilkins (D)*

State House District 39 - Vote for up to 3

• Gabriel Acevero (D)*
• Lesley J. Lopez (D)*
• Kirill Reznik (D)*

Who Is Running For Federal Government?

U.S. Senate

• Chris Chaffee (R): facebook.com/ChaffeeforUSSenate
• Chris Van Hollen* (D): vanhollen.org
• Scottie Griffin (D write-in)
• Andrew J. Wildman (Unaffiliated write-in): commonsense2nd.com

U.S. House District 3

• Yuripzy Morgan (R): ymorgan.com
• John Sarbanes* (D): johnsarbanes.com

U.S. House District 6

• Neil C. Parrott (R)
• David J. Trone (D)

U.S. House District 8

• Gregory Thomas Coll (R)
• Jamie Raskin (D)*
• Andres Garcia (L)

Is Anybody Else Running?

Yes. Several court positions and party central committee seats are also on the ballot. A full list of every race in Maryland is posted at this link.

Also, Montgomery County voters will be choosing school members. More information about these races is available at this link.

For any other questions, visit elections.maryland.gov.

Are There Any Referendums?

Marylanders will decide five ballot measures in the Nov. 8 general election. The one with the widest impact is the question of whether recreational marijuana should be legal, known as Ballot Question 4.

If passed, residents 21 and older could use and possess up to 1.5 ounces of usable cannabis or 12 grams of concentrated cannabis on or after July 1, 2023.

More than half of Maryland's registered voters support legalizing recreational marijuana, multiple polls suggest.

Related: Biden Looks To Weed Decriminalization: What It Means Ahead Of MD Marijuana Referendum

The other statewide ballot measures, as explained by Ballotpedia, if approved would:

• Rename the Maryland Court of Appeals as the Supreme Court of Maryland and change the Maryland Court of Special Appeals to the Appellate Court of Maryland.
• Amend the Maryland Constitution to require that state legislators live in and maintain a residence in the district they wish to represent at least six months before an election.
• Amend the Maryland Constitution to increase the amount in which the right to a jury trial may be limited by state law from $15,000 to $25,000.
• Amend the state constitution to require that Howard County Circuit Court judges serve on the orphans' court and repeal the county's need to elect three judges to the orphans' court.

The exact wording of each ballot question is listed here. A non-technical summary of each question is available on this webpage.

Several jurisdictions also have local ballot questions. Montgomery County's two questions seek to amend the county charter to:

• require consent of both the County Executive and the County Council in order to remove the County Attorney.
• authorize the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County to issue a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license in Damascus (12th election district)

How Can I Register To Vote?

Voter registration closes on Oct. 18. Marylanders can register or update their information at this link.

How Can I Vote By Mail Or Dropbox?

Marylanders can request a ballot to return by mail or dropbox. Those ballots can be delivered by mail or fax. Voters can also download their ballot from the state's website.

Residents can request a ballot by:

• Completing this online form
• Visiting their local elections office
• Filling out this form and mailing, faxing or emailing it to their elections office

The deadline for ballot requests to be received, not just sent, is:

• Nov. 8 if requesting a ballot in person at a local board of elections office

Ballots received over the internet must then be printed. Voters should then return their completed ballot by mail or dropbox. Marylanders cannot cast their votes online.

Residents can return their completed ballot by:

• Hand delivering it to their local board of elections by 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 or taking it to an early voting center by the time the polls close
• Mailing it to their local board of elections. These ballots must be postmarked on or before Nov. 8. Election officials must receive these ballots by 10 a.m. on Nov. 18
• Placing it in one of these dropboxes in their county by 8 p.m. on Nov. 8

More information on mail-in and dropbox voting is available on this website.

When Is General Election Day?

The gubernatorial election day is Nov. 8. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Residents must vote at their assigned polling place on election day. Voters can look up their polling place by using this search tool.

To read more about the general election, visit this website.

When Will The Results Be Certified?

Media outlets may project winners on election night based on large leads, but election officials will not certify the final results for at least 10 days. Officials must wait for every mail-in and provisional ballot to come in.

Soon after polls close on Nov. 8, the Maryland State Board of Elections will release the jurisdiction-specific tallies from in-person early voting and mail-in ballots counted up to Election Day.

Officials will start releasing the Election Day vote counts over the following hours on election night.

All 24 jurisdictions will start releasing their early voting and Election Day tallies on Nov. 8. Only 10 will release the mail-in ballot results tallied before Election Day.

The Maryland Court of Appeals on Oct. 7 ruled that local election offices can opt to start counting mail-in ballots before Election Day. They cannot release these results until after polls close on Election Day, and they must continue accepting ballots until the statewide deadline of Nov. 18 at 10 a.m.

Related: Maryland's Highest Court Upholds Order Allowing Early Counting Of Mail-In Ballots

These jurisdictions plan to conduct pre-Election Day canvassing of mail-in ballots: Baltimore City and Allegany, Baltimore, Calvert, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Saint Mary's and Washington counties.

Fourteen jurisdictions do not have the space or personnel to count early mail-in ballots as they arrive.

These counties will start canvassing their mail-in ballots on Nov. 10, which is two days after Election Day: Anne Arundel, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Garrett, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester.

"We appreciate the diligence of the local boards in assessing the most appropriate canvassing approach for their individual teams and always placing the integrity of the election process above all else to ensure the will of Maryland voters is heard through their votes," Maryland State Board of Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone said in a press release.

Election officials will tally provisional ballots on Nov. 16. Mail-in ballots will be counted as they arrive until Nov. 18. Local boards cannot certify their results before Nov. 18.