Montgomery County Results: State Senate, Delegate and Register of Wills Races

Moderately MOCO has called six more contested races on Montgomery County’s ballot, based on unofficial State Board of Elections results as of 1:37 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4. Sens. Katie Fry Hester (District 9) and Cheryl C. Kagan (District 17) won new terms. Delegates Linda Foley, Lily Qi and David V. Fraser-Hidalgo (District 15) and Marc Korman, Sarah Wolek and Teresa Saavedra Woorman (District 16) were re-elected. Barbara Ebel won the race for Register of Wills, and voters statewide kept Judge Dan Friedman on the Appellate Court of Maryland.

In each race, the winner’s lead is larger than the number of mail-in ballots left to count there as of 6 p.m. Nov. 2, according to the State Board of Elections’ reports by legislative district and by county. Results are unofficial until every ballot is counted and the county certifies them.

Results, race by race

Party labels: (D) Democrat, (R) Republican. “Incumbent” means the candidate holds that seat now, according to the General Assembly’s Senate and House member lists.

• State Senate, District 9: Katie Fry Hester (D, incumbent) vs. Ben Hightower (R). Results are for the whole district, which includes parts of Howard and Montgomery counties. Hester won with 64.9% district-wide, unofficial results show.
• State Senate, District 17: Cheryl C. Kagan (D, incumbent) vs. Helene Meister (R). Kagan won with 82.9%, unofficial results show.
• House of Delegates, District 15 (three seats): Linda Foley (D, incumbent), David V. Fraser-Hidalgo (D, incumbent), Lily Qi (D, incumbent) and Peter Chan (R). Foley, Qi and Fraser-Hidalgo won the three seats, unofficial results show.
• House of Delegates, District 16 (three seats): Marc Korman (D, incumbent), Sarah Wolek (D, incumbent), Teresa Saavedra Woorman (D, incumbent), Ann Guthrie Hingston (R) and Bob White (Working Class Party). Korman, Wolek and Saavedra Woorman won the three seats, unofficial results show.
• Register of Wills: Barbara Ebel (D) vs. T. Dolores Reyes (R). Ebel won with 81.5%, unofficial results show.
• Appellate Court of Maryland, Judge Dan Friedman: yes or no on keeping him in office. Voters statewide approved keeping Friedman, 83.3% yes with 1,956 of 1,979 precincts reporting, unofficial results show. Montgomery County voted 89.4% yes.

About these races

Montgomery County has 4 of District 9’s 29 precincts, according to the State Board of Elections’ District 9 results page. Senators and delegates serve four-year terms beginning the second Wednesday of January, under Article III of the Maryland Constitution.

The Register of Wills seat is open. Paul J. Dollahite was appointed Dec. 10, 2025, to replace the late Joseph M. Griffin, according to the Maryland Manual, and his name is not on the State Board of Elections’ Montgomery County results page. The winner serves a four-year term.

Friedman’s name appeared on ballots statewide without an opponent. A yes vote keeps an Appellate Court judge in office for a 10-year term, under Article IV, Section 5A of the Maryland Constitution. Statewide results are on the State Board of Elections site.

Every other State Senate and House race on Montgomery County ballots, apart from District 9A, had no more candidates than seats; those winners are in our list of candidates elected unopposed.

What’s still to count

The Montgomery County Board of Elections resumes counting Thursday, Nov. 5, then counts Nov. 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to its canvass schedule. The board says the dates are subject to change.

Provisional ballots are counted at a later canvass. A mail-in ballot postmarked by Nov. 3 still counts if it is received by 10 a.m. Nov. 13, under state regulations. Results for every county race are on our live results page.

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