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Election Results: County Primary Races

Isiah Leggett, on the campaign trail in April in Randolph Hills

All incumbent Montgomery County leaders won their primaries, while Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz and Silver Spring Del. Tom Hucker grabbed the two vacant County Council spots.

All three county executive candidates got at least 22 percent of the vote and Hucker beat closest competitor Evan Glass by a mere 217 votes in District 5:

COUNTY EXECUTIVE (D):

Ike Leggett — 37,047 (45.46 percent)
Doug Duncan — 26,348 (32.33 percent)
Phil Andrews — 18,091 (22.20 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL AT-LARGE (D):

Marc Elrich — 53,394 (21.15 percent)
Nancy Floreen — 49,094 (19.45 percent)
Hans Riemer — 46,473 (18.41 percent)
George Leventhal — 42,835 (16.97 percent)

Beth Daly — 36,787 (14.57 percent)
Vivian Malloy — 23,829 (9.44 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 (D):

Roger Berliner — 16,395 (78.51 percent)
Duchy Trachtenberg — 4,487 (21.49 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2 (D):

Craig Rice — 6,478 (76.35 percent)
Neda Bolourian — 2,007 (23.65 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 (D):

Sidney Katz — 5,578 (40.90 percent)
Tom Moore — 4,527 (33.20 percent)
Ryan Spiegel — 3,074 (22.54 percent)
Guled Kassim — 458 (3.36 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 (D):

Nancy Navarro — 11,530 (100 percent)

COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 (D):

Tom Hucker — 7,184 (38.60 percent)
Evan Glass — 6,967 (37.44 percent)
Christopher Barclay — 1,789 (9.61 percent)
Terrill North — 1,687 (9.07 percent)
Jeffrey Thames — 982 (5.28 percent)

BOARD OF EDUCATION AT-LARGE:

Jill Ortman-Fouse — 26,678 (33.94 percent)
Shebra Evans — 24,746 (31.48 percent)
Edward Amatetti — 16,237 (20.66 percent)
Merry Heidorn — 10,938 (13.92 percent)

Full election results are here.

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