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United States House elections in Maryland, 2022 (July 19 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maryland were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for July 19, 2022. The filing deadline was April 15, 2022.
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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 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.
This page focuses on Maryland's Democratic primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Republican primaries and the general election, see the following pages:
- United States House elections in Maryland, 2022 (July 19 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Dutch Ruppersberger (Incumbent) ✔
- George Croom
- Marques Dent
- Liri Fusha
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- John Sarbanes (Incumbent) ✔
- Ben Beardsley
- Jake Pretot
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Tammy Allison
- Angela Angel
- James Curtis
- Donna Edwards
- Matthew Fogg
- Greg Holmes
- Glenn Ivey ✔
- Robert McGhee
- Kim Shelton
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Steny Hoyer (Incumbent) ✔
- Keith Washington
- Mckayla Wilkes
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- David Trone (Incumbent) ✔
- George Gluck
- Ben Smilowitz
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Kweisi Mfume (Incumbent) ✔
- Tashi Davis
- Elihu Eli El
- Wayne McNeal
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District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Jamie Raskin (Incumbent) ✔
- Andalib Odulate
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maryland.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Maryland in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 16, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Sixty-five candidates filed to run for Maryland's eight U.S. House districts, including 31 Democrats and 34 Republicans. That's 8.12 candidates per district, less than the 9.87 candidates per district in 2020 and more than the 6.87 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Maryland was apportioned eight districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
Rep. Anthony Brown (D) filed to run for attorney general of Maryland, making the 4th district the only open seat this year and only the fourth U.S. House seat to open up in Maryland since 2012.
Twelve candidates — nine Democrats and three Republicans — ran to replace Brown, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year. There were 15 contested primaries, eight Democratic and seven Republican. That’s one less than in 2020, and one more than in 2018.
Rep. Andrew Harris (R), the incumbent in the 1st district, was the only incumbent not to face a primary challenger this year. That’s one more than in 2020, when all eight incumbents faced primary challengers, and the same as in 2018. Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all eight districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Maryland, 2022 (July 19 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
