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2026 Maryland House race, District 7

Kweisi Mfume (Democrat) and Scott Collier (Republican) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Maryland District 7, as recorded September 21, 2026.

The November ballot

Mfume
$415K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Scott Collier (Republican).

Official candidate list: Maryland State Board of Elections. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Kweisi Mfume

Democrat · Holds the seat now

First took office 1987 · Age 77

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Maryland

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 21 days before, or same-day during early voting and on Election Day in person.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 82,467 votes

  • Kweisi Mfume Won: 70.1% 57,793
  • Mark Conway: 24.5% 20,197
  • Tashi Davis: 3.5% 2,904
  • Theo Gillespie: 1.9% 1,573

Primary source: Maryland State Board of Elections certified Democratic congressional results. Certified July 23, 2026.

Primary results as recorded October 11, 2026, ordered by votes. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$619K
Outside money
$174

Where each candidate's money comes from

2%from small donors
Small donors
2%$8.1K
Large donors
42%$173K
PACs
56%$234K
Other
<1%$316

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The largest group spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

3 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

D+63 in 2024

  • Kweisi Mfume Won: 80.3%
  • Scott Collier: 17.2%

290,137 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.5%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

The district

Census context
People
754K
Median household income
$64K
Unemployment
6.4%
Living below the poverty line
18.4%
Without health insurance
6.6%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through June 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.