Hana O'Looney is the Next SMOB

Wilson Faucette - Garrett Park Estates, Montgomery County, MD - 4-24-2021 - 7:28

Election Results

Montgomery County released the results from the election at 8:00 PM Friday. The election ballot closed at 3:30 PM on Friday. According to Montgomery County Public Schools, 33,000 Middle and High School students voted in the election, which is approximately 37.5% of eligible voters. However, considering that there are still approximately 60% of students remaining virtual, and the election was during the first week of MCPS having all students who wanted to go back, back in the building, this is not a horrible statistic. Hana O'Looney received 78.3 percent of the vote, and Henry Kaye received 21.3 percent of the vote. That means that Hana received about 25,839 votes, while Henry received about 7,029 votes.

Congratulations to All Candidates

The MCPS SMOB is one of the few in the nation that has full voting rights, and only one of two in the state of Maryland. The MCPS SMOB represents all 160,000 MCPS Students at the Board of Education. Both of the SMOB finalists, as well as all of the former candidates from before the Nominating Convention ran excellent campaigns. All candidates should be proud of the work that they put into their campaigns, and will have the opportunity to further their agendas in different ways next year.

What Have the Candidates and Others Been Saying

Hana O'Looney and Henry Kaye have both posted a thank you message on their social media.

Board President, Brenda Wolff also posted a message congratulating Hana O'Looney.

Hana O'Looney will be sworn in on July 1. She will serve for one year on the Board of Education.

Wilson Faucette

Wilson Faucette is a journalist and the Webmaster at Quarantine Today News. He is a 7th Grader at Tilden Middle School.

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