Candidates for Carroll County commissioner District 1 include five Republicans

All five candidates running for the District 1 seat on the Carroll Board of County Commissioners are Republicans. Commissioner Stephen Wantz of Westminster currently represents District 1, which stretches across the northern part of the county and includes the towns of Taneytown and New Windsor. Wantz, a Republican, was first elected as commissioner in 2014 and will finish his second term of office this year; he is a candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates to represent District 5.