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United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maryland were on November 5, 2024. 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 May 14, 2024. The filing deadline was February 9, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Maryland -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 7 | 7 | |
| Republican Party | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 8 | 8 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Andrew Harris (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Blane Miller III (Democratic Party)
- Joshua O'Brien (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Christen Johnson (Unaffiliated)
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Andrew Harris (Incumbent) ✔
- Christopher Bruneau
- Michael Lemon
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
General election candidates
- John Olszewski Jr. (Democratic Party) ✔
- Kim Klacik (Republican Party)
- Jasen Wunder (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Harry Bhandari
- Sia Kyriakakos
- John Olszewski Jr. ✔
- Sharron Reed-Burns
- Jessica Sjoberg
- Clint Spellman Jr.
Did not make the ballot:
- Dutch Ruppersberger (Incumbent)
- Bryan Moore
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District 3
General election candidates
- Sarah Elfreth (Democratic Party) ✔
- Rob Steinberger (Republican Party)
- Miguel Barajas (Libertarian Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
- Mark S. Chang
- Michael Coburn
- Malcolm Colombo
- Abigail Diehl
- Juan Dominguez
- Lindsay Donahue
- Harry Dunn
- Sarah Elfreth ✔
- Mark Gosnell
- Terri L. Hill
- Aisha Khan
- Clarence Lam
- Matt Libber
- Kristin Lyman Nabors
- John Morse
- Jake Pretot
- Don Quinn
- Mike Rogers
- Dan Rupli
- Gary Schuman
- Stewart Silver
- Jeffrey Woodard
Did not make the ballot:
- John Sarbanes (Incumbent)
- Vanessa Atterbeary
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- Arthur Baker Jr.
- Ray Bly
- Bernard Flowers
- Thomas Harris
- Jordan Mayo
- Naveed Mian
- Joshua Morales
- John Rea
- Rob Steinberger ✔
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District 4
General election candidates
- Glenn Ivey (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- George McDermott (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Glenn Ivey (Incumbent) ✔
- Joseph Gomes
- Emmett Johnson
- Gabriel Njinimbot
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Steny Hoyer (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Michelle Talkington (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Steny Hoyer (Incumbent) ✔
- Quincy Bareebe
- Andrea Crooms
- Mckayla Wilkes
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
General election candidates
- April McClain-Delaney (Democratic Party) ✔
- Neil Parrott (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Moshe Landman (Green Party)
- Jason Johnson (Unaffiliated)
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- Peter Choharis
- George Gluck
- Geoffrey Grammer
- Ashwani Jain
- Lesley Lopez
- Tekesha Martinez
- April McClain-Delaney ✔
- Stephen McDow
- Mohammad Mozumder
- Adrian Petrus
- Joel Rubin
- Laurie-Anne Sayles
- Joe Vogel
- Destiny West
- Kiambo White
- Altimont Wilks
Did not make the ballot:
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Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
General election candidates
- Kweisi Mfume (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Scott Collier (Republican Party)
- Ronald Owens-Bey (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Michael Scott (People's Party)
- Michael Sigmon (Progressive Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Kweisi Mfume (Incumbent) ✔
- Tashi Davis
Republican primary candidates
District 8
General election candidates
- Jamie Raskin (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Cheryl Riley (Republican Party)
- Nancy Wallace (Green Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Jamie Raskin (Incumbent) ✔
- Eric Felber
Republican primary candidates
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Maryland
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Maryland's 1st Congressional District
- Maryland's 2nd Congressional District
- Maryland's 3rd Congressional District
- Maryland's 4th Congressional District
- Maryland's 5th Congressional District
- Maryland's 6th Congressional District
- Maryland's 7th Congressional District
- Maryland's 8th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Maryland in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Maryland, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Maryland | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | $100.00 | 2/9/2024 | Source |
| Maryland | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1% of the eligible voters for the district | $100.00 | 8/5/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maryland.
| Maryland U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 87 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 87.5% | 5 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 65 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 93.8% | 6 | 85.7% | ||||
| 2020 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 79 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 8 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 55 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 87.5% | 6 | 85.7% | ||||
| 2016 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 60 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 93.8% | 5 | 83.3% | ||||
| 2014 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 35 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 75.0% | 6 | 75.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Maryland in 2024. Information below was calculated on March 19, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Eighty-seven candidates ran for Maryland’s eight U.S. House districts, including 58 Democrats and 29 Republicans. That’s 10.88 candidates per district, more than in the previous three election cycles. There were 8.12 candidates per district in 2022, 9.87 candidates per district in 2020, and 6.87 in 2018.
The total number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 is also higher than any other year this decade.
Three districts—the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 6th—were open, meaning no incumbents ran. That’s the most open districts in an election cycle this decade.
Rep. David Trone (D-6th) did not run for re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate, while Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2nd) and John Sarbanes (D-3rd) retired from public office.
Thirty-one candidates—22 Democrats and nine Republicans—ran for the open 3rd Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a district in 2024.
Fourteen primaries—eight Democratic and six Republican—were contested in 2024. Fifteen primaries were contested in 2022, 16 primaries were contested in 2020, and 14 were in 2018.
Five incumbents—four Democrats and one Republican—faced primary challengers in 2024. That's fewer than in 2022, when six incumbents faced challengers, in 2020 when eight incumbents faced challengers, and in 2018, when six did.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Maryland, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Maryland's 1st | Andrew Harris |  Republican |
R+11 |
| Maryland's 2nd | Dutch Ruppersberger |  Democratic |
D+7 |
| Maryland's 3rd | John Sarbanes | Democratic |
D+10 |
| Maryland's 4th | Glenn Ivey | Democratic |
D+40 |
| Maryland's 5th | Steny Hoyer | Democratic |
D+15 |
| Maryland's 6th | David Trone | Democratic |
D+2 |
| Maryland's 7th | Kweisi Mfume | Democratic |
D+30 |
| Maryland's 8th | Jamie Raskin | Democratic |
D+29 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Maryland[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
|
Donald Trump
| ||
| Maryland's 1st | 41.7% | 56.3% | ||
| Maryland's 2nd | 59.4% | 38.6% | ||
| Maryland's 3rd | 61.7% | 36.2% | ||
| Maryland's 4th | 89.6% | 8.7% | ||
| Maryland's 5th | 67.4% | 30.9% | ||
| Maryland's 6th | 53.9% | 44.1% | ||
| Maryland's 7th | 81.0% | 17.5% | ||
| Maryland's 8th | 80.5% | 17.9% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Maryland's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Maryland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Republican | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 8 | 10 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Maryland's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Maryland, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Wes Moore
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| Lieutenant Governor | Aruna Miller
|
| Secretary of State | Susan Lee
|
| Attorney General | Anthony G. Brown
|
State legislature
Maryland State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 34 | |
| Republican Party | 13 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 47 | |
Maryland House of Delegates
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 102 | |
| Republican Party | 39 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 141 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Maryland Party Control: 1992-2024
Twenty-one years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
