Overview
- Incumbent Sheriff Sam Cogen conceded the Democratic primary on Thursday and sent an open letter offering a full, cooperative transition to Sabrina Tapp-Harper.
- Maryland State Board of Elections results reported Tapp-Harper won about 56% of the vote to Cogen’s 44%, a lead of 4,947 votes and an 11.10% margin.
- Tapp-Harper led across early voting, Election Day ballots and mail-in ballots, giving her a consistent advantage in every voting mode.
- Because no Republican is running in the November general election, the primary result effectively secures Tapp-Harper the sheriff’s office pending the formal transition and swearing-in.
- Tapp-Harper is a retired Baltimore Police major and former assistant sheriff who ran on public-safety priorities and won the mayor’s endorsement, and her victory breaks a pattern in an office created in 1845 that has never before been held by a woman.