<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0IR9GX_1Gvh9UlU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0IR9GX_1Gvh9UlU00" width="2000" height="915" >CHESTERTOWN — With about 350 votes separating the first and last of the six candidates for three seats on the Kent County Commission, the outcome of that race will not be determined until the count of provisional and mail-in ballots later this week.Democrat Sam Shoge is the front-runner with 3,915 votes [17.69%].He moved up from fourth after receiving 771 votes in the first post-election mail-in canvass on Thursday, Nov. 5.Republican incumbents John Price [3,712] and Albert Nickerson [3,676] are currently second and third with 16.77% and 16.61% of the votes, respectively.Democrat John Carroll [3,639] is fourth with 16.44%, followed by Democrat Thad Bench [3,606] and Republican incumbent Ron Fithian [3,559] at 16.29% and 16.08%, respectively.According to the Kent County Board of Elections, there are about 400 ballots still to be counted.Provisional ballots will be counted on Thursday, Nov. 12.The second and final mail-in canvass is Friday, Nov. 13.All canvass activities will be done at 10 a.m. at the Board of Elections office at 135 Dixon Drive, Chestertown.About 1,100 ballots were counted in the first mail-in canvass on Nov. 5, favoring the three Democratic challengers — Shoge with 771 votes, Carroll with 750 and Bench with 739.Mail-in votes for the Republican incumbents — Price [302], Fithian [280] and Nickerson [266] — totaled 848.Early voting also favored the challengers, with Shoge [1,565] holding a modest advantage over Bench [1,456] and Carroll [1,437].The strong turnout of Republicans on Election Day, Nov. 3, however, flipped the script with Price and Nickerson tying for the lead with a total of 3,410 votes apiece, followed by Fithian with 3,279.Then came Shoge in fourth with 3,144, Carroll with 2,889 and Bench with 2,867.In the only other contested race, Republican challenger Matt Crouch has received 53.18% of the vote [4,328] after the first mail-in canvass in what appears to be an upset of two-term incumbent Bryan DiGregory with 46.81% [3,810].Trish McGee has been elected to a fourth term on the Kent County Board of Education with 43.32% of the vote [5,839] after the first mail-in canvass.First-time candidates Cameron Brooks [3,444, 25.5%] and Zeke Falcon [3,198, 23.73%] also have won seats on the five-member board.As a mid-September entry, current board member Frank Rhodes ran as an official write-in candidate.To date, a total of 998 write-in votes have been counted.As required by law, all board of education races in Maryland are nonpartisan.Also locally, Sheriff Dennis Hickman, Clerk of the Circuit Court Sherise Kennard and Register of Wills Kristi Osborn — all incumbents — faced no opposition in the general election.According to the Maryland Board of Elections, as of Oct. 18 there were 14,362 eligible active voters in Kent County for the 2026 gubernatorial general election. They include 5,557 Democrats, 5,561 Republicans and 3,013 unaffiliated.Kent County Board of Education candidate Trish McGee is the owner and publisher of The Evening Enterprise.</div></body>

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CHESTERTOWN — With about 350 votes separating the first and last of the six candidates for three seats on the Kent County Commission, the outcome of that race will not be determined until the count of provisional and mail-in ballots later this week. Democrat Sam Shoge is the front-runner...

Mail-in votes will determine county commissioners’ race in Kent

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CHESTERTOWN — With about 350 votes separating the first and last of the six candidates for three seats on the Kent County Commission, the outcome of that r

Mail-in votes will determine county commissioners’ race in Kent

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