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A general election will be held in the U.S. state of Maryland on November 5, 2024. In addition to the U.S. presidential race, Maryland voters will elect all of its seats in the United States House of Representatives, and one of its U.S. senators. Various municipal elections, including in Cecil County, Baltimore, and the city of Hagerstown, will also be held.
Maryland is represented by 10 electors in the electoral college.
Incumbent three-term Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was reelected in 2018 with 64.9% of the vote. On May 1, 2023, he announced that he would not be seeking reelection to a fourth term in office. [2] Democratic candidates for the office include Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks [3] and U.S. Representative David Trone, [4] while Republican candidates include former governor Larry Hogan [5] and perennial candidate Robin Ficker. [6]
All eight of Maryland's seats in the United States House of Representatives are up for election in 2024, of which three are open seats. [4] [7] [8]
| Proposition | Description |
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| Abortion referendum | Enshrines the right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution. [9] |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Yes | No | Other | Undecided |
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| OpinionWorks | October 20–23, 2022 | 982 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 71% | 19% | – | 11% |
| University of Maryland | September 22–27, 2022 | 810 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 78% | 16% | – | 5% |
Incumbent Brandon Scott was first elected in 2020 with 70.5% of the vote and is running for re-election to a second term. [10] He faces primary challenges from former mayor Sheila Dixon [11] and perennial candidate Thiru Vignarajah. [12] Vignarajah withdrew from the race and endorsed Dixon on May 1, 2024, [13] but will still appear on the primary election ballot and have votes cast by mail for him counted. [14]
| District | Incumbent | Candidates [15] | |||
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| Location | Member | Party | First elected | Status | |
| President | Nick Mosby | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent lost renomination [16] |
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| 1 | Zeke Cohen | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent retired to run for City Council President [17] |
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| 2 | Danielle McCray | Democratic | 2019 (appointed) | Incumbent renominated | |
| 3 | Ryan Dorsey | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 4 | Mark Conway | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 5 | Yitzy Schleifer | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 6 | Sharon Green Middleton | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 7 | James Torrence | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent renominated | |
| 8 | Kristerfer Burnett | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent retired [18] | |
| 9 | John Bullock | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 10 | Phylicia Porter | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent renominated |
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| 11 | Eric Costello | Democratic | 2014 (appointed) | Incumbent running | |
| 12 | Robert Stokes | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent running | |
| 13 | Antonio Glover | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent renominated | |
| 14 | Odette Ramos | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent renominated |
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| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Sheila Dixon | Brandon Scott | Thiru Vignarajah | Bob Wallace | Other | Undecided |
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| OpinionWorks [upper-alpha 1] | April 7–11, 2024 | 508 (LV) | ± 4.3% | 35% | 38% | 10% | 4% | 5% [lower-alpha 2] | 7% |
| Goucher College | April 3–7, 2024 | 440 (RV) | ± 4.7% | 32% | 40% | 11% | 3% | 3% [lower-alpha 3] | 10% |
| Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group [upper-alpha 2] | February 24–26, 2024 | 400 (LV) | ± 5% | 40% | 37% | 10% | 6% | – | 8% |
| Lake Research Partners | October 16–22, 2023 | 800 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 39% | 31% | – | 10% | – | 15% |
| Goucher College | September 19–23, 2023 | 537 (RV) | ± 4.2% | 39% | 27% | – | – | 23% [lower-alpha 4] | 8% |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Eric Costello | Sheila Dixon | Bill Henry | Jayne Miller | Brandon Scott | Thiru Vignarajah | Undecided |
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| Lake Research Partners [upper-alpha 3] | Late March 2023 | 500 (LV) | ± 4.4% | 3% | 18% | 6% | 7% | 21% | 11% | 34% |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Zeke Cohen | Nick Mosby | Shannon Sneed | Other | Undecided |
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| OpinionWorks [upper-alpha 4] | April 7–11, 2024 | 508 (LV) | ± 4.3% | 40% | 21% | 17% | 3% | 19% |
| Goucher College [upper-alpha 5] | April 3–7, 2024 | 508 (LV) | ± 4.3% | 27% | 23% | 17% | 14% | 20% |
| Global Strategy Group [upper-alpha 6] | February 15–20, 2024 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.3% | 31% | 22% | 18% | 5% | 24% |
| Shannon Sneed enters the race | ||||||||
| Goucher College [upper-alpha 5] | September 19–23, 2023 | 537 (RV) | ± 4.2% | 30% | 17% | – | 34% | 18% |
| Global Strategy Group [upper-alpha 6] | May 31 – June 1, 2023 | 702 (LV) | ± 3.7% | 40% | 24% | – | – | 18% |
In Cecil County, voters will elect the County Executive as well as two seats in the County Council, in Districts 1 and 5.
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The incumbent county executive is Republican Danielle Hornberger, who was elected with 63.4% of the vote in 2020. [19] She ran for a second term in 2024, but was defeated in the Republican primary election by Adam Streight. [20]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Adam Streight | |||
| Republican | Danielle Hornberger (incumbent) | |||
| Total votes | 100.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Bill Kilby | |||
| Total votes | 100.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Adam Streight | |||
| Democratic | Bill Kilby | |||
| Total votes | 100.0 | |||
| District | Incumbent | Candidates [22] | |||
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| Location | Member | Party | First elected | Status | |
| 1 | Bob Meffley | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent renominated | |
| 5 | Jackie Gregory | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent running | |
The 2024 Hagerstown mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2024. Incumbent mayor Tekesha Martinez became the city's mayor and the city's first Black mayor on February 7, 2023, after Emily Keller resigned following Governor Wes Moore naming her to serve as Special Secretary of Opioid Response in his administration. [24] On July 12, 2023, she announced that she would run for Congress in Maryland's 6th congressional district, opting against re-election as mayor. [25]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Bill McIntire | |||
| Stephen S. Schutte | |||
| Total votes | 100.0 | ||
Members of the Hagerstown City Council are elected in an at-large nonpartisan election, where the top ten candidates from the primary will move on to the general election, where the top five candidates will be elected.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Kristin Aleshire | |||
| Caroline Anderson | |||
| Erika Bell | |||
| Mark Bell | |||
| Tiara Burnett | |||
| Sean Flaherty | |||
| Journie Martinez | |||
| Stacy Michael | |||
| Rich Owens | |||
| Peter Perini | |||
| Matthew Schindler | |||
| Total votes | 100.0 | ||
Sheila Ann Dixon is an American politician who served as the 48th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, after mayor Martin O'Malley was sworn in as governor on January 17, 2007. Dixon, then president of the Baltimore City Council, served out the remaining year of her term and won the mayoral election in November 2007. Dixon was the first African-American woman to serve as president of the City Council, Baltimore's first female mayor, and Baltimore's third black mayor.
The 2007 Baltimore mayoral election was held on November 6, 2007. Because Baltimore's electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic, Sheila Dixon's victory in the Democratic primary on September 11 all but assured her of victory in the general election; she defeated Republican candidate Elbert Henderson in the general election by an overwhelming majority. Dixon, who as president of the Baltimore City Council became mayor in January 2007 when Martin O'Malley resigned to become Governor of Maryland, was the first woman to be elected to the office.
The 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic governor Martin O'Malley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term.
The 1994 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994. Incumbent Democratic Governor William Donald Schaefer was ineligible for re-election. Prince George's County Executive Parris Glendening emerged victorious from the Democratic primary after defeating several candidates. Maryland House minority leader Ellen Sauerbrey, who would also be the 1998 Republican nominee for Governor, won her party's nomination.
The 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018. The date included the election of the governor, lieutenant governor, and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, both Republicans, were re-elected to a second term against Democrat Ben Jealous, the former NAACP CEO, and his running mate Susan Turnbull. This was one of eight Republican-held governorships up for election in states carried by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Thiruvendran "Thiru" Vignarajah is an American lawyer and politician. He previously was Deputy Attorney General of Maryland. He is a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Baltimore. He has also been the lead attorney for the State of Maryland in the post-conviction appeals of Adnan Syed, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in the high-profile 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee. He is a four-time candidate for Baltimore State's Attorney and mayor of Baltimore, having run for both positions twice and being defeated in the primary each time.
Terri Lynn Hill is an American politician who serves as a member to the Maryland House of Delegates since 2015, first representing the 12th district from 2015 to 2023 and then district 12A since 2023.
Bernard C. "Jack" Young is an American politician and former mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, Young was elected to the Baltimore City Council in 1996, representing Baltimore's second district. In 2010, Young became City Council President following Stephanie Rawlings-Blake taking over as mayor due to the indictment of Sheila Dixon. On April 2, 2019, Young was named acting mayor during the leave of absence by Mayor Catherine Pugh. Following Pugh's resignation on May 2, 2019, Young was fully vested as mayor of the city. In October 2019, Young announced that he was running to retain his position as Mayor in the 2020 election. He lost the Democratic nomination for mayor, despite raising more money than the other candidates. Instead, Brandon Scott won the nomination for mayor in the 2020 general election, which he went on to win.
Sharon Green Middleton is an American politician who has been a member of the Baltimore City Council since 2007 and its vice president since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, she briefly served as acting president of the Baltimore City Council following Bernard C. Young's ascension to mayor following the resignation of Catherine Pugh.
Brandon Maurice Scott is an American politician serving as the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, since 2020. The city of Baltimore uses a strong mayor-council structure for their government, meaning Scott holds strong mayoral powers. He is the former president of the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate for lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2018, as well as a representative for Baltimore's second district. On May 6, 2019, Scott was elected to replace Jack Young as council president after Young succeeded Mayor Catherine Pugh. In September 2019, Scott announced his candidacy for mayor and won the June 2020 Democratic primary. Scott won the November 3 general election and took office on December 8, 2020.
The 2020 Baltimore mayoral election was held on November 3, 2020, concurrent with the general election. Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott, the Democratic Party nominee, won a sizable victory over independent candidate Bob Wallace, Republican Party nominee Shannon Wright, and Working Class Party nominee David Harding.
Shaneka Tarae Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 30A since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as an alderwoman on the Annapolis City Council from 2017 to 2019.
The 2024 United States Senate election in Maryland will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Maryland. The Democratic and Republican primary elections took place on May 14, 2024.
The 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the next governor of Maryland. Incumbent governor Larry Hogan was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term. This was the first Gubernatorial election where both parties nominees for Lieutenant Governor were both women.
The Maryland county executive elections of 2022 were held on November 8, 2022. Democratic and Republican primaries were held on July 19, 2022.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Maryland on November 8, 2022. All of Maryland's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Maryland's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives, one of its U.S. senators, and the state legislature. Primaries were held on July 19, 2022. Polls were open from 7 AM to 8 PM EST.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the eight U.S. representatives from the state of Maryland, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The Democratic and Republican primary elections will be held on May 14, 2024.
Cheryl E. Pasteur is an American politician. She is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 11A in Baltimore County. She previously served on the Baltimore County School Board from 2018 to 2022.
The 2024 Baltimore mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland.
