Diedra Henry-Spires
Diedra Henry-Spires was a Democratic write-in candidate for District 26 of the Maryland House of Delegates. Ahmed was previously defeated in the Democratic primary.
Biography
Diedra Henry-Spires attended Pennsylvania State University. Her professional experience includes working in the United States Senate Finance Committee. Her organizational affiliations include the Dalton Daley Group as CEO.[1]
Elections
2018
Henry-Spires ran as a write-in candidate.
General election
General election for Maryland House of Delegates District 26 (3 seats)
Veronica Turner, incumbent Jay Walker, and incumbent Kris Valderrama won election in the general election for Maryland House of Delegates District 26 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Veronica Turner (D) | 35.1 | 35,748 |
| ✔ |  | Jay Walker (D)  | 32.0 | 32,523 |
| ✔ |  | Kris Valderrama (D) | 30.6 | 31,153 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.3 | 2,361 | ||
| Total votes: 101,785 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 26 (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 26 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Walker | 24.3 | 11,749 |
| ✔ | | Veronica Turner | 21.1 | 10,197 |
| ✔ | | Kris Valderrama | 19.8 | 9,590 |
| David Sloan | 9.2 | 4,430 | ||
| Sade Oshinubi | 8.6 | 4,153 | ||
| Leonard Moses | 7.2 | 3,475 | ||
 | Diedra Henry-Spires | 6.0 | 2,912 | |
| Sean Chao | 3.8 | 1,812 | ||
| Total votes: 48,318 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
Better Education, Better Healthcare, and Fair distribution of tax allocations for all Marylanders, especially those in the 26th Legislative District Is there anything you would like to add? We must move forward rather than backwards. In 2018 we can not operate legislatively with representation that hearkens back to 2003. It is time to change the way we are treated in the 26th Legislative District.[2] |
” |
| —Diedra Henry-Spires[1] | ||
See also
- State legislative elections, 2018
- Maryland House of Delegates elections, 2018
- Maryland House of Delegates
External links
Footnotes
