United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2014

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	2014 U.S. Senate Elections

The 2014 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maryland took place on November 4, 2014. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's eight congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
February 25, 2014	June 24, 2014	November 4, 2014

Primary: 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.

Voter registration: To vote in the primary, voters had to register by June 3, 2014. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 14, 2014.^[3]

See also: Maryland elections, 2014

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 4 election, the Democratic Party held seven of the eight congressional seats from Maryland.

Members of the U.S. House from Maryland -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2014	After the 2014 Election
	Democratic Party	7	7
	Republican Party	1	1
Total		8	8

Incumbents

Heading into the 2014 election, the incumbents for the eight congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Andrew Harris	Republican	1
Dutch Ruppersberger	Democratic	2
John Sarbanes	Democratic	3
Donna Edwards	Democratic	4
Steny Hoyer	Democratic	5
John Delaney	Democratic	6
Elijah Cummings	Democratic	7
Chris Van Hollen	Democratic	8

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 8 seats up for election in 2014 in Maryland. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the two candidates who received the most votes. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100%.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
District 1	Andrew Harris	41%	250,185	Bill Tilghman
District 2	C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger	25.5%	196,354	David Banach
District 3	John Sarbanes	19.3%	215,623	Charles Long
District 4	Donna Edwards	41.9%	191,837	Nancy Hoyt
District 5	Steny Hoyer	28.3%	226,040	Chris Chaffee
District 6	John Delaney	1.5%	190,536	Dan Bongino
District 7	Elijah Cummings	42.9%	206,809	Corrogan Vaughn
District 8	Chris Van Hollen	20.6%	211,487	Dave Wallace