In Latest Vote Count, Elrich Lead Over Blair Grows Slightly

photo of David Blair and Marc Elrich

After a 12th day of vote counting, incumbent County Executive Marc Elrich’s very slim lead over businessman David Blair has grown slightly.

According to the latest numbers released late Friday night, Elrich now leads Blair by 198 votes. With over 106,000 ballots counted, Elrich has 53,224 votes to Blair’s 53,026. The difference in votes amounts to less than two tenths of one percent (.15%).

Canvassing will continue Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Germantown campus of Montgomery College. You can watch the vote counting live at the Board of Elections website. At this point, no canvassing sessions have been listed after Saturday.

From elections.maryland.gov:

Democratic Candidates – Vote for 1

(258 of 258 election day precincts reported)

Name Party Early Voting Election Day Mail-In Ballot / Provisional Total Percentage
David T. Blair
Democratic 8,328 21,026 23,672 53,026 39.14%
Marc Elrich
Democratic 7,453 20,575 25,196 53,224 39.29%
Peter James
Democratic 325 1,142 840 2,307 1.70%
Hans Riemer
Democratic 4,203 10,838 11,873 26,914 19.87%

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