2016 United States Senate election in Maryland

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2016 United States Senate election in Maryland
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Nominee Chris Van Hollen Kathy Szeliga
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote1,659,907972,557
Percentage60.89%35.67%
2016 United States Senate election in Maryland results map by county.svg
2016 United States Senate election in Maryland by congressional district.svg
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Van Hollen:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Szeliga:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     40–50%     50%     No votes
U.S. senator before election

Barbara Mikulski
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Chris Van Hollen
Democratic

The 2016 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maryland, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Contents

Incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski decided to retire after five terms in the Senate. [1] Primary elections were held April 26, 2016, in which Chris Van Hollen and Kathy Szeliga were chosen as the Democratic and Republican party nominees, respectively. In addition, the Green Party chose Margaret Flowers and the Libertarian Party chose Arvin Vohra as their respective nominees.

Van Hollen was heavily favored to win the election. He ultimately won with over 60% of the vote. As typically occurs with the state's elections, most support for the Democratic nominee, Van Hollen, came from the densely populated Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area in central Maryland, while the Republican nominee, Szeliga, did well in the more sparsely populated areas on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland, and narrowly won Anne Arundel County, home to the state capital Annapolis, as well as exurban Frederick County.

This election was the first time since 1980 that a man won the Class 3 Senate seat in Maryland.

Background

Mikulski first ran for the U.S. Senate in 1974, losing to Republican incumbent Charles Mathias. Mikulski then served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, succeeding the retiring Mathias. She was re-elected by large margins in 1992, 1998, 2004 and 2010. Shortly after being sworn in for her fifth term in 2011, she succeeded Margaret Chase Smith as the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history, [2] and on March 17, 2012, she became the longest-serving female member of Congress in U.S. history, surpassing Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, who served from 1925 to 1960. [3] On March 2, 2015, Mikulski announced that she would not run for re-election to a sixth term in office. [1]

In August 2013, Abby Livingston of Roll Call had predicted that a potential retirement by Mikulski would create "chaos" and "blow open Maryland's political bottleneck" because "the state's teeming political Democratic Party talent is backed up in lower offices." [4] Among the ten Democrats who ran in the primary, only two had previously been elected to an office.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Debates

DatesLocationVan HollenEdwardsLink
March 25, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland ParticipantParticipant [39]

Endorsements

Donna Edwards

Federal politicians

Statewide politicians

Other individuals

Organizations

Chris Van Hollen

Federal politicians

Governors

Statewide politicians

Other individuals

Newspapers

Organizations

Declined to endorse

Federal politicians

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Donna
Edwards		Chris
Van Hollen		OtherUndecided
Monmouth University [78] April 18–20, 2016300± 5.7%36%52%1%11%
Public Policy Polling [79] April 15–17, 2016492± 4.4%33%42%—25%
Marist College [80] April 5–9, 2016775± 3.5%38%44%—18%
Washington Post/University of Maryland [81] March 30 – April 3, 2016539± 4.5%44%40%—16%
Garin-Hart-Yang Research [82] March 28–30, 2016604± 4.9%40%45%—15%
University of Baltimore [83] March 4–9, 2016400± 4.9%34%28%—31%
Gonzales Research [84] February 29 – March 4, 2016411± 5.0%41%42%—17%
Goucher College [85] February 13–18, 2016307± 5.6%39%37%—24%
Gonzales Research [86] January 11–16, 2016402± 5%36%38%—24%
University of Baltimore [87] November 13–17, 2015419± 4.8%19%28%40% [13] 13%
31%45%—24%
Washington Post/University of Maryland [88] October 8–11, 20151,006± 3.5%20%20%33% [13] 27%
Global Strategy Group (D-Edwards) [89] August 3–9, 2015600± 4%42%37%—21%
Mellman Group (D-Cummings) [90] March 19–22, 2015700± 3.7%23%22%29% [13] 27%

Results

Results by county: Map legend .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} Van Hollen--70-80% Van Hollen--60-70% Van Hollen--50-60% Van Hollen--40-50% Van Hollen--30-40% Edwards--60-70% Edwards--50-60% 2016 United States Senate election in Maryland Democratic Primary results map by county.svg
Results by county:
Map legend
  •   Van Hollen—70–80%
  •   Van Hollen—60–70%
  •   Van Hollen—50–60%
  •   Van Hollen—40–50%
  •   Van Hollen—30–40%
  •   Edwards—60–70%
  •   Edwards—50–60%
Democratic primary results, April 26 [91]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Chris Van Hollen 470,320 53.2%
Democratic Donna Edwards343,62038.9%
Democratic Freddie Dickson14,8561.7%
Democratic Theresa Scaldaferri13,1781.5%
Democratic Violet Staley10,2441.2%
Democratic Lih Young8,5611.0%
Democratic Charles Smith7,9120.9%
Democratic Ralph Jaffe7,1610.8%
Democratic Blaine Taylor5,9320.7%
Democratic Ed Tinus2,5600.3%
Total votes884,344 100.0%

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Chrys Kefalas

Newspapers

Kathy Szeliga

U.S. Senators (current and former)

U.S. Representatives (current and former)

Individuals

Statewide politicians

Organizations

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Kathy
Szeliga		Richard
Douglas		Barry
Glassman		Chrys
Kefalas		Anthony
Seda		Undecided
Marist College [127] April 5–9, 2016368± 5.1%20%13%–9%–57%
Washington Post/University of Maryland [81] March 30 – April 3, 2016283± 7.5%15%9%–11%–46%
University of Baltimore [128] March 4–8, 2016400± 4.9%6%1%–2%<1%79%
University of Baltimore [129] November 13–17, 2015307± 5.6%15%9%8%5%4%59%

Results

Primary results by county Szeliga 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% Chafee 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 2016 United States Senate Republican primary in Maryland results map by county.svg
Primary results by county
  Szeliga
  •   20–30%
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  Chafee
  •   20–30%
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50-60%
Republican primary results [91]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Kathy Szeliga 135,337 35.6%
Republican Chris Chaffee52,06613.7%
Republican Chrys Kefalas36,3409.6%
Republican Richard Douglas29,0077.6%
Republican Dave Wallace23,2266.1%
Republican Sean Connor21,7275.7%
Republican Lynn Richardson20,7925.5%
Republican John Graziani16,7224.4%
Republican Greg Holmes16,1484.3%
Republican Mark McNicholas9,9882.6%
Republican Joe Hooe8,2822.2%
Republican Anthony Seda3,8731.0%
Republican Richard Shawver3,1550.8%
Republican Garry Yarrington2,9880.8%
Total votes379,651 100.0%

Szeliga won the April 26, 2016, primary in Baltimore City and each of Maryland's counties except Calvert, St. Mary's, Charles, and Prince George's, in which Chris Chaffee received more votes. [130]

Third party and independent candidates

Green Party

Results

Green Party primary results [135]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Green Margaret Flowers 125 98.0%
Green None of the above32.0%
Total votes128 100.0%

Independents

Libertarian Party

General election

Candidates

Debates

DatesLocationVan HollenSzeligaLink
October 26, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland ParticipantParticipant [137]

Endorsements

Chris Van Hollen

Federal politicians

Statewide politicians

Other individuals

Newspapers

Organizations

Kathy Szeliga

Governors

U.S. Senators (current and former)

U.S. Representatives (current and former)

Individuals

Statewide politicians

Newspapers

Organizations

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [152] Safe DNovember 2, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball [153] Safe DNovember 7, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report [154] Safe DNovember 3, 2016
Daily Kos [155] Safe DNovember 8, 2016
Real Clear Politics [156] Safe DNovember 7, 2016

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Chris
Van Hollen (D)		Kathy
Szeliga (R)		OtherUndecided
SurveyMonkey [157] November 1–7, 20161,216± 4.6%64%33%—3%
SurveyMonkey [158] October 31 – November 6, 20161,056± 4.6%64%33%—3%
SurveyMonkey [159] October 28 – November 3, 2016851± 4.6%66%32%—2%
SurveyMonkey [160] October 27 – November 2, 2016772± 4.6%67%31%—2%
SurveyMonkey [161] October 26 – November 1, 2016695± 4.6%66%31%—3%
SurveyMonkey [162] October 25–31, 2016740± 4.6%66%31%—3%
University of Maryland/Washington Post [163] September 27–30, 2016706± 4.0%58%29%5%6%
Goucher College [164] September 17–20, 2016514± 4.3%54%24%2%19%
OpinionWorks [165] August 18–30, 2016754± 3.6%55%26%1%19%
Public Policy Polling [79] April 15–17, 2016879± 3.3%53%25%—22%

Results

United States Senate election in Maryland, 2016 [166]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Chris Van Hollen 1,659,907 60.89% −1.30%
Republican Kathy Szeliga 972,55735.67%−0.08%
Green Margaret Flowers 89,9703.30%+2.17%
Write-in 3,7360.14%+0.03%
Total votes2,726,170 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

By county

[167]

CountyChris Van Hollen

Democratic

Kathy Szeliga

Republican

Margaret Flowers

Green

Write-in

Write-in

MarginTotal

votes

cast

#%#%#%#%#%
Allegany 8,54932.1%16,99363.8%1,1134.2%320.1%-8444-31.7%26687
Anne Arundel 116,42247.8%119,76049.2%7,3743.0%3050.1%-3338-1.4%243556
Baltimore (County) 189,04156.4%135,84640.5%10,2123.0%5110.2%5319515.9%335099
Baltimore (City) 171,31882.7%26,35312.7%9,5504.6%4630.2%14496570.0%207684
Calvert 17,09440.1%23,86756.0%1,6914.0%760.2%-6773-15.9%42654
Caroline 4,30632.6%8,56064.9%3272.5%110.1%-4254-32.3%13193
Carroll 25,41529.9%57,54067.6%2,1492.5%800.1%-32125-37.7%85184
Cecil 13,86433.4%26,14363.0%1,5173.7%580.1%-12279-29.6%41478
Charles 45,83463.6%24,03833.4%2,1593.0%1050.1%2179630.2%72041
Dorchester 6,12744.4%7,35153.3%3212.3%150.1%-1224-8.9%13814
Frederick 52,65146.0%57,43250.2%4,3823.8%1630.1%-4781-4.2%114628
Garrett 2,40219.3%9,65577.7%3713.0%180.1%-7253-58.4%12446
Harford 44,75835.9%76,56361.4%3,4312.8%1480.1%-31805-25.5%124900
Howard 89,62260.9%52,57735.8%4,8543.3%2240.2%3704525.1%147277
Kent 4,32047.1%4,64150.6%2052.2%40.04%-321-3.5%9170
Montgomery 307,89274.9%91,96622.4%11,1212.7%5700.1%21592652.5%410979
Prince George's 305,99288.1%30,4518.8%10,9613.2%6520.2%27554179.3%347056
Queen Anne's 7,83431.9%16,17865.8%5762.3%190.1%-8344-33.9%24607
Somerset 3,61041.6%4,89456.4%1661.9%100.1%-1284-14.8%8670
St. Mary's 16,33836.7%26,39559.4%1,7303.9%650.1%-10057-22.7%44428
Talbot 8,20843.6%10,21254.3%3912.1%180.1%-2004-10.7%18829
Washington 21,42236.3%35,31259.8%2,2983.9%890.2%-13890-23.5%59121
Wicomico 16,69243.3%20,71353.7%1,1633.0%560.1%-4021-10.4%38568
Worcester 9,13436.1%15,46261.1%6902.7%260.1%-6328-25.0%25312
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

Van Hollen 7 of 8 congressional districts. [168]

DistrictVan HollenSzeligaRepresentative
1st 35%62% Andy Harris
2nd 61%36% Dutch Ruppersberger
3rd 62%35% John Sarbanes
4th 76%21% Donna Edwards
Anthony Brown
5th 64%33% Steny Hoyer
6th 57%39% John Delaney
7th 72%24% Elijah Cummings
8th 64%33% Chris Van Hollen
Jamie Raskin

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