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Last updated: Oct. 18, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Maryland within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for one U.S. Senator, eight U.S. Representatives, three Maryland Supreme Court justices, and six Maryland intermediate appellate court judges. Additionally, there is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Maryland. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Maryland
- The elected offices that Maryland voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Maryland that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Maryland will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Maryland's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Maryland
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Maryland
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maryland
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Maryland elections, 2024
Maryland voters will elect one U.S. Senator and eight U.S. Representatives. Four incumbents, including Sen. Ben Cardin (D), did not run for re-election.
Three seats on the Maryland Supreme Court and six on the Maryland Court of Appeals are up for retention.
There are 25 seats across six school boards up for election in Maryland. The districts these boards represent are part of the 475 school districts included in Ballotpedia's coverage of school board elections, which includes the nation's largest school districts and all school districts in the nation's largest cities.
Municipal elections will be held in Baltimore for mayor, comptroller, city council, and circuit court judges. Ballotpedia's coverage scope for local elections includes the nation's largest cities and state capitals.
There is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Maryland.
Below is a list of Maryland elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Maryland elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | — | — |
| State House | — | — |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 18, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified one election as a battleground race. Those are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
- United States Senate election in Maryland, 2024: Angela Alsobrooks (D), Larry Hogan (R), and Mike Scott (L) are running for the open seat. As of Oct. 12, 2024, four major election forecasters differed in their ratings for the general election, with one rating it Safe Democratic and three rating it Likely Democratic.
Ballot measures
- See also: Maryland 2024 ballot measures
There is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Maryland.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question 1 | Provide for a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, defined to include abortion |
|
2,199,319 (76%) |
692,219 (24%) |
There were 59 ballot measures on the ballot in Maryland from 1985 to 2022. Voters approved 54 measures and defeated five.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Democrats represent sevendistricts and Republicans represent one district in Maryland's U.S. House delegation. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Maryland's U.S. Senators—Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen—are Democrats. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Democrats have a 34-13 majority in the state Senate and a 102-23 majority with one vacancy in the state House. Democrats have had a majority in the state Senate and state House since at least 1990.
Because the governor is a Democrat, Alaska is one of 17 states with a Democratic trifecta. It has held this status since 2023, when Gov. Wes Moore (D) assumed office.
Maryland's attorney general and secretary of state are also Democrats. This makes Maryland one of 20 states with a Democratic triplex.
Past presidential election results in Maryland
- See also: Presidential election in Maryland, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 64.2% of Marylanders lived in one of the state's six Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 20.5% lived in one of 13 Solid Republican counties. Overall, Maryland was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Maryland following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.[1]
| Maryland county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 6 | 64.2% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 13 | 20.5% | |||||
| Trending Democratic | 1 | 9.5% | |||||
| New Democratic | 3 | 5.3% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 1 | 0.4% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 10 | 79.1% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 14 | 20.9% | |||||
List of candidates
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
| candidate | office | party | status |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Maryland Supreme Court 2nd Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Maryland Supreme Court 3rd Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Maryland Supreme Court 6th Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
Appellate Court of Maryland 1st Appellate Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General | |
 | Appellate Court of Maryland 2nd Appellate Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Appellate Court of Maryland 6th Appellate Circuit (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Appellate Court of Maryland At-large (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Appellate Court of Maryland At-large (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
 | Appellate Court of Maryland At-large (Retention election) | Nonpartisan | Won General |
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
| candidate | office | party | status |
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 Zipporah Miller Incumbent | Nonpartisan | Lost General | |
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 Zeke Cohen Incumbent | Democratic | Won General | |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ This analysis includes Maryland's 23 counties and the independent city of Baltimore.
