Democratic Party primaries in Maryland, 2024
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| May 14, 2024 |
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This page focuses on the Democratic primaries that took place in Maryland on May 14, 2024.
A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Maryland law stipulates that political parties can determine for themselves who may participate in their primary elections. As of October 2025, both the Democratic and Republican parties operated a closed primary where only a voter affiliated with the party may vote in a party's primary.[1]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Federal elections
U.S. Senate
A Democratic Party primary took place on May 14, 2024, in Maryland to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the state's general election on November 5, 2024.
Heading into the election, the incumbent was Ben Cardin (Democrat), who was first elected in 2006.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Maryland on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Angela Alsobrooks | 53.4 | 357,052 |
 | David Trone | 42.8 | 286,381 | |
 | Joseph Perez | 0.7 | 4,688 | |
 | Michael Cobb Sr. | 0.7 | 4,524 | |
 | Brian Frydenborg  | 0.5 | 3,635 | |
 | Scottie Griffin | 0.5 | 3,579 | |
 | Marcellus Crews | 0.5 | 3,379 | |
 | Andrew Wildman | 0.3 | 2,198 | |
 | Robert Houton | 0.3 | 1,946 | |
 | Steven Seuferer | 0.2 | 1,664 | |
| Total votes: 669,046 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Juan Dominguez (D)
- William Jawando (D)
U.S. House
District 1
Democratic primary candidates = candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 2
Democratic primary candidates- Harry Bhandari
- Sia Kyriakakos
- John Olszewski Jr. ✔
- Sharron Reed-Burns
- Jessica Sjoberg
- Clint Spellman Jr.
- Dutch Ruppersberger (Incumbent)
- Bryan Moore
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 3
Democratic primary candidates- Mark S. Chang
- Michael Coburn
- Malcolm Colombo
- Abigail Diehl
- Juan Dominguez
- Lindsay Donahue
- Harry Dunn
- Sarah Elfreth ✔
- Mark Gosnell
- Terri L. Hill
- Aisha Khan
- Clarence Lam
- Matt Libber
- Kristin Lyman Nabors
- John Morse
- Jake Pretot
- Don Quinn
- Mike Rogers
- Dan Rupli
- Gary Schuman
- Stewart Silver
- Jeffrey Woodard
- John Sarbanes (Incumbent)
- Vanessa Atterbeary
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 4
Democratic primary candidates- Glenn Ivey (Incumbent) ✔
- Joseph Gomes
- Emmett Johnson
- Gabriel Njinimbot
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 5
Democratic primary candidates- Steny Hoyer (Incumbent) ✔
- Quincy Bareebe
- Andrea Crooms
- Mckayla Wilkes
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 6
Democratic primary candidates- Peter Choharis
- George Gluck
- Geoffrey Grammer
- Ashwani Jain
- Lesley Lopez
- Tekesha Martinez
- April McClain-Delaney ✔
- Stephen McDow
- Mohammad Mozumder
- Adrian Petrus
- Joel Rubin
- Laurie-Anne Sayles
- Joe Vogel
- Destiny West
- Kiambo White
- Altimont Wilks
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 7
Democratic primary candidates- Kweisi Mfume (Incumbent) ✔
- Tashi Davis
District 8
Democratic primary candidates- Jamie Raskin (Incumbent) ✔
- Eric Felber
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maryland
Context of the 2024 elections
Maryland Party Control: 1992-2025
Twenty-two years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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State party overview
Democratic Party of Maryland
- See also: Democratic Party of Maryland
State political party revenue
State political parties typically deposit revenue in separate state and federal accounts in order to comply with state and federal campaign finance laws.
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party maintain state affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and select U.S. territories. The following map displays total state political party revenue per capita for the Democratic state party affiliates.
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
There are no Pivot Counties in Maryland. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won Maryland with 60.3 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 33.9 percent. In presidential elections between 1789 and 2016, Maryland voted Democratic 52 percent of the time and Republican 21 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Maryland voted Democratic all five times.[2]
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
