1982 Maryland Senate election

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1982 Maryland Senate election
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All 47 seats of the Maryland Senate
24 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Leader James Clark Jr. Edward J. Mason (lost renomination)
Party Democratic Republican
Leader sinceJanuary 19791975
Leader's seat 11th district 9th district
Last election416
Seats won425
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1
President before election

James Clark Jr.
Democratic

President

Melvin Steinberg
Democratic

The 1982 Maryland Senate elections were held on November 2, 1982, as part of the 1982 United States elections, including the 1982 Maryland gubernatorial election. All 47 of Maryland's state senators were up for reelection.

Contents

Leading up to the 1982 elections, Republicans were hopeful to gain seats in the legislature, citing Lawrence Hogan and Robert A. Pascal leading the party's ticket in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial elections, and Ronald Reagan's strong performance in the state during the 1980 United States presidential election and subsequent legislative accomplishments. However, the elections provided to be a major setback for the party as Democrats were able to gain one seat from the Republicans in the state Senate, and Hogan and Pascal lost their elections in landslides. [1]

Summary

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. State Senate district 16, 1.73%
  2. State Senate district 9, 4.36%
  3. State Senate district 30, 4.47%
  4. State Senate district 15, 8.59%

Retiring incumbents

Democrats

  1. District 22: Richard A. Palumbo retired to run for the Maryland House of Delegates. [2]
  2. District 24: Mary A. Conroy retired. [3]
  3. District 32: H. Erle Schafer retired to run for Harford County Executive. [4]
  4. District 37: Harry J. McGuirk retired to run for governor of Maryland. [5]
  5. District 43: J. Joseph Curran Jr. retired to run for lieutenant governor of Maryland alongside Harry Hughes. [6]
  6. District 44: Louise G. Murphy retired. [7]

Republicans

  1. District 11: Robert E. Stroble retired. [8]

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Democrats

  1. District 7: Patrick T. Welsh lost renomination to Norman R. Stone Jr. [9]
  2. District 12: Timothy R. Hickman lost renomination to John C. Coolahan. [9]
  3. District 34: Art Helton lost renomination to Catherine Riley. [10]
  4. District 40: Verda Welcome lost renomination to Troy Brailey. [11]
  5. District 45: Robert Douglass lost renomination to Nathan Irby. [12]
  6. District 45: Cornell N. Dypski lost renomination to Joseph S. Bonvegna. [13]

Republicans

  1. District 1: Edward J. Mason lost renomination to John N. Bambacus. [12]

Detailed results

District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 8 • District 9 • District 10 • District 11 • District 12 • District 13 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 18 • District 19 • District 20 • District 21 • District 22 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25 • District 26 • District 27 • District 28 • District 29 • District 30 • District 31 • District 32 • District 33 • District 34 • District 35 • District 36 • District 37 • District 38 • District 39 • District 40 • District 41 • District 42 • District 43 • District 44 • District 45 • District 46 • District 47

All election results are from the 1983-1984 edition of the Maryland Manual. [14]

District 1

Maryland Senate District 1 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican John N. Bambacus 19,173 74.2
Democratic Holmes R. Atkinson6,66725.8
Republican hold

District 2

Maryland Senate District 2 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Victor Cushwa (incumbent) 13,769 63.2
Republican Terrance Bache8,02636.8
Democratic hold

District 3

Maryland Senate District 3 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Edward P. Thomas (incumbent) 14,914 64.0
Democratic Raymond W. Kline8,40136.0
Republican hold

District 4

Maryland Senate District 4 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Charles H. Smelser (incumbent) 12,945 100.0
Democratic hold

District 5

Maryland Senate District 5 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Raymond E. Beck 13,567 57.1
Democratic Roger L. Mann10,19342.9
Republican gain from Democratic

District 6

Maryland Senate District 6 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Dennis F. Rasmussen (incumbent) 15,438 100.0
Democratic hold

District 7

Maryland Senate District 7 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Norman R. Stone Jr. (incumbent) 20,466 100.0
Democratic hold

District 8

Maryland Senate District 8 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Thomas L. Bromwell 16,483 66.2
Republican John P. Quinn8,43433.8
Democratic hold

District 9

Maryland Senate District 9 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican F. Vernon Boozer (incumbent) 16,128 52.2
Democratic Mark C. Medairy Jr.14,78147.8
Republican hold

District 10

Maryland Senate District 10 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Francis X. Kelly (incumbent) 16,958 64.0
Republican Kenneth W. Fowler9,52436.0
Democratic hold

District 11

Maryland Senate District 11 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Melvin Steinberg (incumbent) 24,109 100.0
Democratic hold

District 12

Maryland Senate District 12 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic John C. Coolahan 17,948 74.0
Republican John J. Wazniak Jr.6,29026.0
Democratic hold

District 13

Maryland Senate District 13 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Thomas M. Yeager 15,167 100.0
Democratic hold

District 14

Maryland Senate District 14 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic James Clark Jr. (incumbent) 20,809 100.0
Democratic hold

District 15

Maryland Senate District 15 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Laurence Levitan (incumbent) 15,170 51.9
Republican Allan C. Levey12,66143.3
Write-in 1,3864.7
Democratic hold

District 16

Maryland Senate District 16 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Howard A. Denis (incumbent) 17,502 50.9
Democratic Brian Frosh 16,90649.1
Republican hold

District 17

Maryland Senate District 18 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic S. Frank Shore (incumbent)
Republican Phyllis B. Fordham
Democratic hold

District 18

Maryland Senate District 18 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Margaret Schweinhaut (incumbent) 20,283 73.8
Republican Donald H. Dalton7,19226.2
Democratic hold

District 19

Maryland Senate District 19 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Sidney Kramer (incumbent) 21,812 100.0
Democratic hold

District 20

Maryland Senate District 20 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Stewart W. Bainum Jr. 18,561 71.3
Republican Stephen R. Leventhal7,46628.7
Democratic hold

District 21

Maryland Senate District 21 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Arthur Dorman (incumbent) 14,042 100.0
Democratic hold

District 22

Maryland Senate District 22 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Thomas Patrick O'Reilly (incumbent) 13,331 100.0
Democratic hold

District 23

Maryland Senate District 23 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Leo E. Green 16,429 70.4
Republican Burton W. Oliver6,91529.6
Democratic hold

District 24

Maryland Senate District 24 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Tommie Broadwater (incumbent) 12,203 100.0
Democratic hold

District 25

Maryland Senate District 25 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic B. W. Mike Donovan (incumbent) 9,951 73.4
Republican James Whitehead2,94821.7
Write-in 6584.9
Democratic hold

District 26

Maryland Senate District 26 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Frank J. Komenda 13,491 80.2
Republican George L. Price3,33019.8
Democratic hold

District 27

Maryland Senate District 27 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Thomas V. Miller Jr. (incumbent) 14,456 100.0
Democratic hold

District 28

Maryland Senate District 28 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic James C. Simpson (incumbent) 14,943 80.7
Republican Saad Kassem3,56719.3
Democratic hold

District 29

Maryland Senate District 29 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Bernie Fowler 14,449 70.3
Republican David M. King (incumbent)6,11429.7
Democratic hold

District 30

Maryland Senate District 30 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gerald W. Winegard 12,972 52.2
Republican P. Tyson Bennett11,86147.8
Democratic gain from Republican

District 31

Maryland Senate District 31 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jerome F. Connell Sr. (incumbent) 14,505 61.9
Republican Thomas J. Harden III8,91338.1
Democratic hold

District 32

Maryland Senate District 32 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Michael J. Wagner 13,546 100.0
Democratic hold

District 33

Maryland Senate District 33 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican John A. Cade (incumbent) 12,803 100.0
Republican hold

District 34

Maryland Senate District 34 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Catherine Riley 16,818 78.9
Republican Dorothy A. Wilson4,50821.1
Democratic hold

District 35

Maryland Senate District 35 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic William H. Amoss 18,682 100.0
Democratic hold

District 36

Maryland Senate District 36 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Walter M. Baker (incumbent) 12,459 58.9
Republican Bernard M. Hopkins8,70341.1
Democratic hold

District 37

Maryland Senate District 37 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Frederick Malkus (incumbent) 16,101 70.3
Republican Rose Marie Spanagel6,81029.7
Democratic hold

District 38

Maryland Senate District 38 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Joseph J. Long Sr. (incumbent) 18,575 100.0
Democratic hold

District 39

Maryland Senate District 39 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Clarence Mitchell III (incumbent) 13,973 91.3
Republican Leana B. Thomas1,3288.7
Democratic hold

District 40

Maryland Senate District 40 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Troy Brailey 15,278 100.0
Democratic hold

District 41

Maryland Senate District 41 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Clarence W. Blount (incumbent) 18,250 94.7
Republican Otis E. Lee Sr.1,0275.3
Democratic hold

District 42

Maryland Senate District 42 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Rosalie Silber Abrams (incumbent) 19,673 100.0
Democratic hold

District 43

Maryland Senate District 43 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic John A. Pica Jr. 17,025 68.0
Republican Richard D. Bennett7,99532.0
Democratic hold

District 44

Maryland Senate District 44 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Julian L. Lapides (incumbent) 17,827 87.7
Republican John T. Smith2,49112.3
Democratic hold

District 45

Maryland Senate District 45 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Nathan Irby 14,756 93.9
Republican James D. David9516.1
Democratic hold

District 46

Maryland Senate District 46 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Joseph S. Bonvegna (incumbent) 18,066 100.0
Democratic hold

District 47

Maryland Senate District 47 election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic George W. Della Jr. 12,321 100.0
Democratic hold

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