Candidate · November 3, 2026

April McClain Delaney

On the ballot for U.S. House · Maryland's 6th District

DemocraticIncumbent
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$13M
cash on hand
$122K
issues with public statements
31
outside spending for or against
$559K

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · Maryland's 6th District1,2,3
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2,3
StatusIncumbent — Currently represents Maryland's 6th District in the U.S. House.4
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Her official House website says she earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from Georgetown University.5 Her campaign website says she has worked for more than three decades in communications law, regulatory affairs and public advocacy.6 It says she was Washington, D.C. director and a board member of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on how media and technology affect children, and then Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications in the Department of Commerce.5,6 She was elected to Congress in 2024 and represents Maryland's 6th District.5

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says she wants Maryland families to have an advocate in Congress on issues such as rising costs, health care and equal, high-quality education for children, and that she wants to rebuild trust in democracy.7

Service in Congress since 2023

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Abortion and Reproductive Health

Her campaign website says she supports codifying Roe v. Wade into law and would cosponsor the Women's Health Protection Act, which it says would protect and re-establish abortion rights.10

  1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
  2. Leave abortion law to each state
  3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she supports codifying Roe v. Wade into law.10

  1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
  2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
  3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
  4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
  5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Guns

Her campaign website says she supports universal background checks.11

  1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
  2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
  3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she supports limitations on assault weapons.11

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

Her campaign website says that on day one in Congress she would sign onto the Equality Act and champion its passage.12

  1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
  2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
  3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she strongly supports the John Lewis Act, which it says would restore voting rights.13

  1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
  2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
  3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Family and Social Policy

Her campaign website says she would advocate against initiatives to end marriage equality.12

  1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
  2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
  3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she supports tax relief for the middle class, including efforts to raise the Child Tax Credit for working families.14

Health Care

Her campaign website says she would advocate against initiatives to ban gender-affirming care.12

Her campaign website says health care coverage should be a right, that she will defend the Affordable Care Act, and that the eventual goal should be universal health care.15

Elections and Government Reform

Her campaign website says she backs measures such as the For the People Act to widen access to voting and change how campaigns are financed.13

Social Security and Medicare

Her campaign website says President Biden lowered costs by capping insulin and allowing the government to negotiate drug prices, that she will build on that work, and that she will work to strengthen Medicare by lowering prescription drug costs.15,16

Her campaign website says she opposes cuts to Social Security and efforts to privatize it.16

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Her campaign website says a minimum wage increase is long overdue and that she supports raising it with an added index for inflation.14,17

Her campaign website describes her as a strong supporter of the labor movement and a pro-worker, pro-labor Democrat.17

Her campaign website lists limiting hidden credit card fees and junk fees among her priorities.14

  1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
  4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Taxes and Budget

Her campaign website says she opposes tax breaks for the wealthy and well-connected and will support tax relief for the middle class.17

Education

Her campaign website says she will support and advance legislation to make community college free and lower college tuition.18

  1. No free tuition program
  2. Free tuition at community colleges
  3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she supports the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which it says increases funding for public schools and expands access to pre-K, and that she will work with state leaders to ensure it is fully funded.18

  1. Increase state funding for public schools
  2. Hold funding near current levels
  3. Reduce state school funding or slow its growth
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Energy and Climate

Her campaign website says Congress should price carbon, along with increasing basic climate science research, creating new incentives to decarbonize industries and addressing regulatory gaps.19

  1. No tax, fee or cap-and-trade on carbon emissions
  2. A fee only on imports made with more emissions than similar US goods
  3. A price on emissions from US companies, through a tax, fee or cap-and-trade
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Environment and Public Lands

Her campaign website says she would work to protect the Clean Air Act.19

Foreign Policy and Defense

Her campaign website says she believes in U.S. leadership of important alliances such as NATO.20

Her campaign website says she supports the bipartisan Senate bill that would send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.20

  1. Send more US-funded weapons and money to Ukraine
  2. Keep supplying weapons, with European allies paying for most of them
  3. End US weapons and aid for Ukraine, including weapons paid for by allies
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she firmly supports Israel's right to defend itself, and that she supported the bipartisan bill then before the Senate to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.20

Her campaign website says she believes in a post-World War II model of global engagement that includes foreign aid, alliances such as NATO and a strong military.20

Immigration

Her campaign website says she supports the bipartisan border agreement announced in the Senate, which it says secures the border with supplemental border security funding and new technology to detect fentanyl and other contraband.21

Technology, Privacy and AI

Her campaign website says privacy laws need to be strengthened.22

Her campaign website says online protections for children must keep improving so their health and well-being are not harmed.22

Her campaign website says that at the Commerce Department she oversaw plans to widen broadband access nationwide and led the rollout of rural broadband grants.7,17

Infrastructure and Transportation

Her campaign website says she will work to expand public transit and widen I-270.17

Housing

Her campaign website says the Biden administration's housing blueprint recommends a mortgage relief credit, down payment help for first-generation buyers, tax credits for building more housing and relief for renters, and that tackling housing costs is one of her plans.14

§4Popular bills that never got a vote

Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.

While April McClain Delaney served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. April McClain Delaney sponsored or cosponsored 23 of the 26. How bills die without a vote.

See all 26

§5Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.49

Raised$12,535,128
Spent$12,426,168
Cash on hand$121,839
Debts owed by the campaign$14,873,000

Where the money came from

Individual donors$969K · 8%
PACs and other political committees$497K · 4%
Political party committees$1,053 · 0%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$11M · 88%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$55K · 0%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$14K · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $516,368 supporting and $42,387 opposing April McClain Delaney this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through June 19, 2026.50

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
Protect Progress$516,368—
COMMON SENSE MARYLAND—$42,387

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§6Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.