Maryland judicial election recap, 2012
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Maryland judges participate in nonpartisan elections for the trial court level, and retention elections for the appellate court level. In the 2012 elections there were 33 candidates in all, 27 of which were for the trial courts and six of which were for the appellate courts (three each for the Court of Special Appeals and the Court of Appeals).
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Only one race in the state was opposed this year, and though the challenger was competitive he was not able to garner enough votes to win the seat from the incumbent. This race was for the St. Mary's County seat on the Maryland Seventh Circuit court. The incumbent, David Wylie Densford, earned 52% of the vote to challenger Joseph Michael Stanalonis' 47.8%. Though all incumbents were successful in the elections, and only one race garnered any challengers, over half of the judges up for election this year were quite new to the court systems, having been appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley between late 2010 and earlier in 2012.
Maryland judges and justices serve long terms, 15 years for trial court judges and 10 years for appellate court judges, so the candidates seen in this year's election will not be reviewed again by voters for some time unless they move to a new position within the court system.
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