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The Maryland gubernatorial election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018. The date included the election of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and all members of the Maryland General Assembly. Incumbent Governor Larry Hogan and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, both Republicans, were eligible to run for a second term in office and pursued a successful re-election against former NAACP CEO Ben Jealous and his running mate Susan Turnbull. Hogan and Rutherford became the first Republican gubernatorial ticket in Maryland to win reelection since 1954. [1]
The governor of the State of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of the State of Maryland, and is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. The governor is the highest-ranking official in the state and has a broad range of appointive powers in both the state and local governments, as specified by the Maryland Constitution. Because of the extent of these constitutional powers, the governor of Maryland has been ranked as being among the most powerful governors in the United States.
The Lieutenant Governor of Maryland is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the state government of Maryland in the United States. He or she is elected on the same ticket as the Governor of Maryland and must meet the same qualifications.
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis. It is a bicameral body: the upper chamber, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives. Members of both houses serve four-year terms. Each house elects its own officers, judges the qualifications and election of its own members, establishes rules for the conduct of its business, and may punish or expel its own members.
At the presidential level, Maryland is a staunchly Democratic state due to the large amount of Democratic voters in the Washington metropolitan area and Baltimore City. Maryland has not seen a Republican presidential candidate win its votes since 1988; Hillary Clinton won the state by 26 points over Donald Trump (60% to 34%) in 2016, Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 26 points in 2012 (62% to 36%), and Obama defeated John McCain by 25 points in 2008 (62% to 37%).
The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The area includes all of the federal district and parts of the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia, along with a small portion of West Virginia. While not a part of the Washington metropolitan area, St. Mary's County is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, the first woman nominated by a major party.
Donald John Trump is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
Hogan was elected governor in 2014, defeating then-lieutenant governor Anthony G. Brown by a margin of 52–47; the result was considered one of the biggest election upsets that year. [2] Prior to Hogan's victory, Bob Ehrlich, elected in 2002, had been the only Republican elected as Governor of Maryland since Spiro Agnew. However, Ehrlich was defeated for reelection in 2006 by Martin O'Malley and defeated again in 2010, when he faced O'Malley in a rematch.
Anthony Gregory Brown is an American lawyer and politician, who is serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district. He previously served two terms as the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. He was elected as lieutenant governor in 2006 on the Democratic ticket with Governor Martin O'Malley, and both were re-elected in 2010. In 2014 Brown ran unsuccessfully for governor, losing to Republican Larry Hogan.
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, he was first elected after defeating Democratic opponent Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in the 2002 election. Prior to serving as governor, Ehrlich represented Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before that he served in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Currently, Hogan has a 68% approval rating, the second highest approval of any governor in the country, only behind Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, who has a 71% approval rating. [3] Despite the state's Democratic leaning, he has a high approval rating among all partisan groups (65% approval from Democrats, 64% of Independents, and 81% of Republicans). [4]
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Harford County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 244,826. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area.
Anne Arundel County, also notated as AA or A.A. County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 537,656, a population increase of just under 10% since 2000. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state. The county is named for Lady Anne Arundell (1615–1649), a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England, and the wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), founder and first Lord Proprietor of the colony Province of Maryland.
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Melvin A. Steinberg is an American politician who served as the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995 under Governor William Donald Schaefer. He was also President of the Maryland State Senate from January 1983 to 1987, and a member of the State Senate from 1967 until his election to the position of Lieutenant Governor. Steinberg graduated from the University of Baltimore with an A.A. degree in 1952 and with a J.D. degree in 1955.
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Republican | Larry Hogan (incumbent) | 210,935 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 210,935 | 100.00% |
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Rushern Baker | Valerie Ervin | Ben Jealous | Kevin Kamenetz† | Richard Madaleno | Jim Shea | Krish Vignarajah | Other | Undecided |
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Gonzales Research | June 4–10, 2018 | 505 | ± 4.5% | 25% | 7% | 23% | – | 9% | 6% | 5% | 2% [109] | 22% |
OpinionWorks | May 29 – June 6, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 16% | 5% | 16% | – | 4% | 4% | 4% | 7% [110] | 44% |
University of Maryland | May 29 – June 3, 2018 | 532 | ± 6.0% | 16% | 8% | 21% | – | 6% | 4% | 4% | 2% [111] | 39% |
Mason-Dixon | February 20–24, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.5% | 26% | – | 14% | 15% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 3% [112] | 32% |
Goucher College | February 12–18, 2018 | 409 | ± 4.8% | 19% | – | 10% | 12% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 6% [113] | 47% |
Gonzales Research | December 27, 2017 – January 5, 2018 | 501 | ± 4.5% | 24% | – | 14% | 14% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 8% [114] | 33% |
Mason-Dixon | September 27–30, 2017 | 400 | ± 5.0% | 28% | – | 10% | 11% | 3% | <1% | 1% | 1% [115] | 46% |
Goucher College | September 14–18, 2017 | 324 | ± 5.4% | 13% | – | 6% | 8% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 22% [116] | 44% |
† Deceased candidate
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Ben Jealous | 231,895 | 39.6% | |
Democratic | Rushern Baker | 171,696 | 29.3% | |
Democratic | Jim Shea | 48,647 | 8.3% | |
Democratic | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah | 48,041 | 8.2% | |
Democratic | Rich Madaleno | 34,184 | 5.8% | |
Democratic | Kevin Kamentez/Valerie Ervin | 18,851 | 3.2% | |
Democratic | Alec Ross | 13,780 | 2.4% | |
Democratic | Ralph Jaffe | 9,405 | 1.6% | |
Democratic | James Jones | 9,188 | 1.6% | |
Total votes | 585,687 | 100.0% |
Following the Maryland Green Party's nominating procedure, the delegates of the Coordinating Council, which is the party's State Central Committee, made the decision to nominate the gubernatorial ticket as no other candidate had filed by the party's March 30, 2018 deadline. More than one ticket seeking the nomination would have required the party to conduct a primary, an obligation not mandated by the State Board of Elections for non-principal parties. [119]
Green State Central Committee Designation [119] April 20 - April 25 | |||
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Candidate | Delegates in favor | Delegates against | Delegates not voting |
Ian Schlakman / Annie Chambers | 15 | 0 | 5 |
Candidate | Votes in favor | Votes against | Not voting |
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Shawn Quinn / Christina Smith | 32 | 1 | 0 |
More than 74,000 potentially voters were affected during the primaries, when the Motor Vehicle Administration was not able to convey information to voters due to problems with ByteGrid. This is a company that provides key services for Maryland elections, and was bought days before the 2018 primary elections by AltPoint Capital Partners, whose manager is Vladimir Potanin, a person who is close to Russian president, Vladimir Putin. This failure made voters unable to be registered and vote and where forced to fill provisional ballots. [121] No changes were announced for the 2018 gubernatorial election. [122] [123]
Larry Hogan and Ben Jealous met for their one and only scheduled debate on September 24. The debate was livestreamed in the evening by the Maryland Public Television. [124]
Source | Ranking | As of |
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FiveThirtyEight [125] | Solid R | October 17, 2018 |
The Washington Post [126] | Likely R | October 16, 2018 |
Fox News [127] [lower-alpha 1] | Likely R | October 9, 2018 |
Politico [128] | Likely R | October 9, 2018 |
The Cook Political Report [129] | Likely R | September 14, 2018 |
Governing [130] | Likely R | September 14, 2018 |
Real Clear Politics [131] | Likely R | September 14, 2018 |
Daily Kos [132] | Likely R | September 5, 2018 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [133] | Likely R | September 5, 2018 |
Rothenberg Political Report [134] | Likely R | August 31, 2018 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Larry Hogan (R) | Ben Jealous (D) | Other | Undecided |
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University of Maryland | October 4–7, 2018 | 648 LV | ± 4.5% | 58% | 38% | 0% | 3% |
814 RV | ± 4.0% | 56% | 36% | 0% | 2% | ||
Gonzales Research | October 1–6, 2018 | 806 | ± 3.5% | 54% | 36% | 2% [117] | 9% |
Mason-Dixon | September 24–26, 2018 | 625 | ± 4.0% | 52% | 37% | 2% [117] | 9% |
Goucher College | September 11–16, 2018 | 472 | ± 4.5% | 54% | 32% | 2% [117] | 9% |
Gonzales Research | August 1–8, 2018 | 831 | ± 3.5% | 52% | 36% | 1% [135] | 11% |
Garin-Hart-Yang (D-Jealous) | July 10–14, 2018 | 601 | ± 4.0% | 49% | 40% | – | 11% |
Gonzales Research | June 4–10, 2018 | 800 | ± 3.5% | 51% | 34% | – | 14% |
University of Maryland | May 29 – June 3, 2018 | 968 | ± 4.5% | 51% | 39% | – | 10% |
Goucher College | April 14–19, 2018 | 617 | ± 3.9% | 44% | 31% | – | 22% |
Mason-Dixon | February 20–22, 2018 | 625 | ± 4.0% | 50% | 33% | – | 17% |
Gonzales Research | December 27, 2017 – January 5, 2018 | 823 | ± 3.5% | 49% | 36% | – | 15% |
Mason-Dixon | September 27–30, 2017 | 625 | ± 4.0% | 49% | 33% | – | 18% |
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Republican | Larry Hogan / Boyd Rutherford (incumbent) | 1,275,734 | 55.35% | +4.32% | |
Democratic | Ben Jealous / Susan Turnbull | 1,002,729 | 43.50% | -3.75% | |
Libertarian | Shawn Quinn / Christina Smith | 13,286 | 0.58% | -0.88% | |
Green | Ian Schlakman / Annie Chambers | 11,265 | 0.49% | N/A | |
n/a | Write-ins | 1,858 | 0.08% | -0.18% | |
Total votes | 2,304,872 | 100.00% | N/A | ||
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