United States House elections in Maryland, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primaries)
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The 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maryland took place on November 3, 2020. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts. This page focuses on the Democratic primaries that took place in Maryland on June 2, 2020.
Click here for more information about the Republican primaries.
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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 utilizes a closed primary system. Although parties may hold open primaries, parties generally permit only registered party members to vote in their primaries.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Candidates
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District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Allison Galbraith (unofficially withdrew)
- Mia Mason ✔
- Jennifer Pingley
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Dutch Ruppersberger (Incumbent) ✔
- Michael Feldman
- Jake Pretot
District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- John Sarbanes (Incumbent) ✔
- Joseph Ardito
- John Rea
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Anthony G. Brown (Incumbent) ✔
- Shelia Bryant
- Kim Shelton
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Steny Hoyer (Incumbent) ✔
- William Devine III
- Vanessa Marie Hoffman
- Briana Urbina (unofficially withdrew)
- Mckayla Wilkes
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- David Trone (Incumbent) ✔
- Maxwell Bero
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Kweisi Mfume (Incumbent) ✔
- T. Dan Baker
- Alicia Brown
- Jill Carter
- Matko Lee Chullin III
- Jermyn Michael Davidson
- Darryl Gonzalez
- Mark Gosnell
- Dan Hiegel
- Michael Howard Jr.
- Jay Jalisi
- Adrian Petrus
- Saafir Rabb
- Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
- Gary Schuman
- Charles Smith
- Harry Spikes
- Charles Stokes
- Jeffrey Woodard
Did not make the ballot:
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Jamie Raskin (Incumbent) ✔
- Marcia Morgan
- Utam Paul
- Lih Young
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.[3]
See also
- United States House elections in Maryland, 2020 (June 2 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2020
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2020
- United States House elections in Maryland (June 26, 2018 Republican primaries)
- United States House elections in Maryland (June 26, 2018 Democratic primaries)
Footnotes
