Scott Collier (Maryland)

Scott Collier (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Maryland's 7th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Collier graduated from Dundalk High School in 1981. His professional experience includes working as a structural steel painter, as a home improvement specialist, and as a media entrepreneur (DundalkTV).^[1]

Elections

2024

Maryland's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 14 Republican primary)

Maryland's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 14 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Incumbent Kweisi Mfume defeated Scott Collier and Ronald Owens-Bey in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kweisi Mfume (D)	80.3	232,849
		Scott Collier (R)	17.2	49,799
	Submit photo	Ronald Owens-Bey (L)	2.4	6,840
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	649

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 290,137
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Michael Sigmon (Progressive Party)
Michael Scott (People's Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Incumbent Kweisi Mfume defeated Tashi Davis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on May 14, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kweisi Mfume	88.4	88,727
	Tashi Davis	11.6	11,640

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 100,367
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Scott Collier defeated Wayne McNeal and Lorrie Sigley in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on May 14, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Scott Collier	47.4	4,289
		Wayne McNeal	31.0	2,804
	Submit photo	Lorrie Sigley	21.6	1,951

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 9,044
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Endorsements

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2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Incumbent Kweisi Mfume defeated Scott Collier in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kweisi Mfume (D)	82.1	151,640
	Scott Collier (R)	17.7	32,737
	Other/Write-in votes	0.2	424

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 184,801
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Incumbent Kweisi Mfume defeated Tashi Davis, Wayne McNeal, and Elihu Eli El in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kweisi Mfume	85.2	80,118
		Tashi Davis	7.6	7,141
		Wayne McNeal	5.2	4,890
	Submit photo	Elihu Eli El	2.0	1,885

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 94,034
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Scott Collier defeated Lorrie Sigley, Michael Pearson, and Ray Bly in the Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7 on July 19, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Scott Collier	34.6	2,873
	Submit photo	Lorrie Sigley	27.1	2,245
	Submit photo	Michael Pearson	23.0	1,906
		Ray Bly	15.3	1,271

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,295
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2020

Maryland's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)

Maryland's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Incumbent Dutch Ruppersberger defeated Johnny Ray Salling in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 2 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Dutch Ruppersberger (D)	67.7	224,836
	Johnny Ray Salling (R)	32.0	106,355
	Other/Write-in votes	0.3	835

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 332,026
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jeff Northcott (Unaffiliated)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Incumbent Dutch Ruppersberger defeated Michael Feldman and Jake Pretot in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dutch Ruppersberger	73.3	82,167
	Submit photo	Michael Feldman	18.0	20,222
		Jake Pretot	8.7	9,780

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 112,169
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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 June 2, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Johnny Ray Salling	19.1	5,942
	Genevieve Morris	16.5	5,134
	Tim Fazenbaker	16.4	5,123
	Rick Impallaria	16.2	5,061
	Jim Simpson	15.3	4,764
	Scott Collier	11.4	3,564
	Blaine Taylor	5.0	1,562

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 31,150
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Carl Magee Jr. (R)

2018

See also: Maryland State Senate elections, 2018

General election

General election for Maryland State Senate District 6

Incumbent Johnny Ray Salling defeated Buddy Staigerwald and Scott Collier in the general election for Maryland State Senate District 6 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Johnny Ray Salling (R)	55.3	19,511
	Submit photo	Buddy Staigerwald (D)	40.0	14,108
		Scott Collier (Unaffiliated)	4.6	1,631
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	23

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 35,273 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 6

Buddy Staigerwald defeated Russ Mirabile in the Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 6 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Buddy Staigerwald	53.5	3,103
	Submit photo	Russ Mirabile	46.5	2,701

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 5,804
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 6

Incumbent Johnny Ray Salling defeated Janice Dymowski in the Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 6 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Johnny Ray Salling	75.1	3,247
	Submit photo	Janice Dymowski	24.9	1,075

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 4,322
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2014

See also: Maryland State Senate elections, 2014

Elections for the Maryland State Senate 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. John Olszewski, Jr. defeated Russ Mirabile in the Democratic primary, while Johnny Ray Salling was unopposed in the Republican primary. Salling defeated Olszewski and Scott M. Collier (I) in the general election.^[2]^[3]^[4]

**Maryland State Senate District 6, General Election, 2014**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Johnny Ray Salling	47.7%	14,916
	Democratic	John Olszewski, Jr.	45%	14,065
	Independent	Scott M. Collier	7.3%	2,285
Total Votes				31,266

**Maryland State Senate, District 6 Democratic Primary, 2014**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
John Olszewski, Jr.	62.1%	5,259
Russ Mirabile	37.9%	3,215
Total Votes		8,474

Campaign themes

2024

2018

Biographical submission

Collier submitted the following campaign themes through Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form:

“

What is your political philosophy?

I would like to give the power back to the people. I believe in working together for real solutions to the problems society is facing.^[5]

”

—Scott M. Collier^[1]

Campaign finance summary

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Scott Collier campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Maryland District 7	Lost general	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. House Maryland District 7	Lost general	$0	N/A**
2020	U.S. House Maryland District 2	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2018	Maryland State Senate District 6	Lost general	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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U.S. House Maryland District 7

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Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on September 7, 2018.
↑ Maryland Secretary of State, "Official primary election candidate list," accessed March 3, 2014
↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for State Senate," accessed December 5, 2014
↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, "2014 Official General Election Results," accessed April 30, 2015
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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Maryland's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Angela Alsobrooks (D)

Chris Hollen (D)

Representatives

District 1

Andrew Harris (R)

District 2

John Olszewski (D)

District 3

Sarah Elfreth (D)

District 4

Glenn Ivey (D)

District 5

Steny Hoyer (D)

District 6

April McClain-Delaney (D)

District 7

Kweisi Mfume (D)

District 8

Jamie Raskin (D)

Democratic Party (9)

Republican Party (1)

[bio-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on September 7, 2018.

[md-2] Maryland Secretary of State, "Official primary election candidate list," accessed March 3, 2014

[3] Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for State Senate," accessed December 5, 2014

[4] Maryland State Board of Elections, "2014 Official General Election Results," accessed April 30, 2015

[quotedisclaimer-5] Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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Scott Collier (Maryland)

Biography

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Endorsements

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 7

2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Maryland District 2

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2018

General election

General election for Maryland State Senate District 6

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 6

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 6

2014

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

2022

2020

2018

Biographical submission

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