Overview
- County election officials certified the June 23 Democratic primary on Monday, formally confirming Sarah David’s victory and her 54% share of the vote.
- David beat 19-year incumbent Scott Shellenberger by a wide margin and will run unopposed in November because no other party filed a candidate.
- Shellenberger did not immediately publicly concede; David has emailed him to thank him and has begun transition planning ahead of a January swearing-in.
- Her campaign outraised the incumbent and benefited from a roughly $1.3 million outside PAC spend tied to the Working Families Party plus a high-profile endorsement from Gov. Wes Moore.
- David, a prosecutor who handles public-corruption and police-misconduct cases, ran on modernizing the office with greater transparency, new juvenile-prosecution practices, and expanded tracking of case data, changes that could reshape how the county handles violent crime, sexual-assault cases, and police-misconduct investigations.