Marques Dent

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Marques Dent

Democratic Party

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May 14, 2024

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Marques Dent (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Baltimore City Council to represent District 3 in Maryland. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 14, 2024.

Biography

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Dent earned his B.S. and M.S. in Information Systems from Webster University. He served in the United States Air Force, ending his service at the rank of Captain.

Elections

2024

See also: City elections in Baltimore, Maryland (2024)

General election

General election for Baltimore City Council District 3

Incumbent Ryan Dorsey won election in the general election for Baltimore City Council District 3 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ryan Dorsey (D)	96.1	15,691
		Other/Write-in votes	3.9	631

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 16,322
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council District 3

Incumbent Ryan Dorsey defeated Margo Bruner-Settles and Marques Dent in the Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council District 3 on May 14, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ryan Dorsey	64.9	5,296
		Margo Bruner-Settles	25.6	2,089
		Marques Dent	9.5	775

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,160
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2022

See also: Maryland's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Incumbent Dutch Ruppersberger defeated Nicolee Ambrose in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 2 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dutch Ruppersberger (D)	59.2	158,998
		Nicolee Ambrose (R)	40.6	109,075
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	361

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 268,434
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Incumbent Dutch Ruppersberger defeated George Croom, Marques Dent, and Liri Fusha in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dutch Ruppersberger	75.5	62,896
		George Croom	10.2	8,465
		Marques Dent	9.3	7,728
	Submit photo	Liri Fusha	5.1	4,218

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 83,307
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Brittany Oliver (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nicolee Ambrose	32.3	12,201
		Dave Wallace	20.2	7,643
		Michael Geppi	14.8	5,595
		Bernard Flowers	13.2	4,983
		Ellen McNulty	11.1	4,204
		Lance Griffin	8.4	3,192

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 37,818
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2020

See also: City elections in Baltimore, Maryland (2020)

General election

General election for Baltimore City Council President

Nick Mosby defeated Jovani Patterson in the general election for Baltimore City Council President on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nick Mosby (D)	79.5	178,689
		Jovani Patterson (R)	19.0	42,628
		Other/Write-in votes	1.5	3,361

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 224,678
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council President

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council President on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nick Mosby	40.2	55,424
		Shannon Sneed	29.4	40,474
		Carl Stokes	21.1	29,012
	Submit photo	Leon Pinkett III	4.0	5,503
	Submit photo	Dan Sparaco	2.7	3,755
		Marques Dent	1.6	2,199
	Submit photo	Leo Burroughs	1.0	1,408

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 137,775
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Baltimore City Council President

Jovani Patterson advanced from the Republican primary for Baltimore City Council President on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jovani Patterson	100.0	4,918

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,918
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2018

See also: Maryland House of Delegates elections, 2018

General election

General election for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Cheryl Glenn (D)	27.6	22,818
✔	Submit photo	Stephanie Smith (D)	27.3	22,524
✔		Talmadge Branch (D)	26.2	21,654
	Submit photo	Glenn Ross (G)	4.9	4,026
	Submit photo	Andy Ellis (G)	4.5	3,735
	Submit photo	Ronald Owens-Bey (R)	3.4	2,825
	Submit photo	Jewel Rucker (R)	3.0	2,485
		Andy Zipay (R)	2.9	2,375
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	136

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 82,578
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Talmadge Branch	19.6	6,394
✔		Cheryl Glenn	17.8	5,792
✔	Submit photo	Stephanie Smith	13.7	4,486
		Caylin Young	12.1	3,955
	Submit photo	Sharon McCollough	8.8	2,886
		Marques Dent	8.3	2,705
	Submit photo	Rita Church	7.8	2,561
		Linzy Jackson	5.7	1,863
	Submit photo	John Amankwah	2.1	697
	Submit photo	George Johnson	2.1	686
	Submit photo	Andy Pierre	1.8	602

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 32,627
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Angel Mack-Boyd (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 (3 seats)

Andy Zipay, Ronald Owens-Bey, and Jewel Rucker advanced from the Republican primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 45 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andy Zipay	34.5	339
✔	Submit photo	Ronald Owens-Bey	34.2	336
✔	Submit photo	Jewel Rucker	31.3	308

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 983
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2016

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary of the Baltimore City Council election for District 3.

Baltimore City Council Election (2016), District 3, Democratic Primary, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Ryan Dorsey	40.33%	3,988
	Democratic	Jermaine Jones	29.82%	2,949
	Democratic	George VanHook, Sr.	9.11%	901
	Democratic	Marques Dent	8.32%	823
	Democratic	Beatrice Brown	6.06%	599
	Democratic	Alicia Joynes	3.66%	362
	Democratic	Steven Mitchell	1.69%	167
	Democratic	Riha Richard	1.01%	100
Total Votes				9,889
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2016 Presidential Primary Election results for Baltimore City," May 31, 2016

2014

See also: Maryland House of Delegates elections, 2014

Elections for the Maryland House of Delegates took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 24, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was February 25, 2014. Cory V. McCray and incumbents Talmadge Branch and Cheryl D. Glenn defeated Marques Dent, Kevin W. Parson, Harry Spikes, Robert Stokes, Sr. and Aaron Keith Wilkes in the Democratic primary, while Rick Saffery and Larry O. Wardlow, Jr. were unopposed in the Republican primary. McCray, Branch and Glenn defeated Saffery, Wardlow and Ronald Owens-Bey (L) for three seats in the general election.

Maryland House of Delegates District 45, General Election, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Cheryl Glenn Incumbent	29.4%	18,197
	Democratic	Talmadge Branch Incumbent	29.1%	18,058
	Democratic	Cory V. McCray	27.6%	17,123
	Republican	Rick Saffery	5%	3,078
	Republican	Larry Wardlow	4.5%	2,805
	Libertarian	Ronald M. Owens-Bey	4.4%	2,734
Total Votes				61,995

Maryland House of Delegates, District 45 Democratic Primary, 2014

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Cheryl Glenn Incumbent	22.3%	6,446
Talmadge Branch Incumbent	21.2%	6,120
Cory V. McCray	19.5%	5,624
Robert Stokes, Sr.	16.9%	4,867
Kevin W. Parson	6.4%	1,842
Marques Dent	6.2%	1,793
Harry Spikes	4.9%	1,414
Aaron Kieth Wilkes	2.6%	738
Total Votes		28,844

Campaign themes

2024

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2022

Marques Dent did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Marques Dent did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2014

Dent's website highlighted the following campaign themes:

• Growing a stronger economy

Excerpt: "Marques will fight to pass laws to provide more incentives in place for small, minority owned businesses, and nonprofit organizations for hiring local residents. In-source is the key to a boost in the economy."

• Community resources, quality education and safer learning environments

Excerpt: "Marques will continue to press lawmakers to ensure that high-quality affordable Child Care subsidy payments are adequate and available for working families as well as less fortunate families; fight for more funding to be available to properly staff after-school programs, provide a light snack for the children, and quality learning facilities, programs, and community centers."

• Safer streets

Excerpt: "Marques will continue to be an advocate for safer communities. He will urge lawmakers to listen to the concerns of safety by the residents, and work with law enforcement to bridge the gap in communication, and build strong relationships with the community leaders, so that the residents can once again feel safe within their communities, and criminals are brought to justice."

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