---
type: Person
title: "Chris West"
description: "MD Senate District 42 — MD State Senate District 42"
role: "MD Senate District 42"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MD"
district: "MD State Senate District 42"
represents: "us/states/md/districts/senate/42"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-09"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "3f258522-deed-46ed-be22-9a834e068561"
  office: "ff6ece02-160a-43f9-bda6-82f3226cc817"
  tenure: "42850a97-7ea7-4a5c-98c0-e5a012f7c6d5"
  jurisdiction: "bda40f62-c0b1-4540-baa0-6397017988ab"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, md]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Chris West

Current MD Senate District 42 (MD State Senate District 42).

Represents [MD State Senate District 42](/us/states/md/districts/senate/42.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).