Democrat Kweisi Mfume Wins Special Election in Maryland, Replaces Elijah Cummings

Democrat Kweisi Mfume Wins Special Election in Maryland, Replaces Elijah Cummings
File photo of then-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume addresses the association at its 94th annual convention in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2003. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Democrat Kweisi Mfume won a special congressional election in Maryland on Tuesday and will replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) for the rest of his term in the state’s 7th district.

Cummings, who chaired the House Oversight Committee, died at 68 in October 2019. His office told news outlets that he died due to “complications concerning longstanding health challenges.” Following Cummings’s death, over 30 people—including some two dozen Democrats—announced bids for the seat he had held since 1996.