Civic tools for a stronger local democracy.
VoteMoCo is an independent, nonpartisan effort to help Montgomery County residents engage with the decisions that shape our county. Explore the 2026 primary matching tool, help set the agenda for future community polling, and join the push to open Maryland’s primaries so everyone can vote when it counts.
Candidate matching & slate builder
Answer a few questions and see transparent, rule-based candidate matches for the 2026 Montgomery County primary. Preserved as a public reference now that the election has passed.
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Join the effortHow the matching tool did
Over 29 days live — May 26, 2026 through election day on June 23, 2026 — VoteMoCo reached thousands of Montgomery County residents and surfaced transparent, rule-based candidate matches. No tracking, no login, no LLM picking for you. Here is how the suggestions lined up with what voters actually chose.
Top-pick accuracy by race
How often the engine’s #1 suggestion matched the candidate the voter slated, across the contested races with real volume.
A fair read on the marquee race
In the three-way County Executive Democratic primary, picks clustered closely — the sign of a tool that surfaces each candidate’s real constituency instead of railroading one slate.
Times each candidate was added to a personal slate.
Across every race and the full run, the engine’s top suggestion matched the voter’s pick 56% of the time (2,256 of 4,054 picks), climbing to 60% on election day. The tool — and the full methodology — remain open for anyone to inspect.