| Election Name: | 2022 Maryland elections |
| Country: | Maryland |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2020 Maryland elections |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Maryland elections |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Maryland on November 8, 2022. All of Maryland's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Maryland's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives, one of its U.S. senators, and the state legislature. Primaries were held on July 19, 2022. Polls were open from 7 AM to 8 PM EST.[1]
The Democratic Party swept every statewide election, flipping the governorship and lieutenant governorship from the Republican Party, while maintaining supermajorities in the state's congressional delegation and the state legislature. As such, the party won full control of Maryland state government for the first time since 2014.
See main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Maryland. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen was first elected in 2016 with 60.9% of the vote, and was running for a second term.[2] Ten Republican candidates filed to run in the election.[3]
Van Hollen won reelection with 65.7% of the votes.[4]
See main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland. Maryland has eight seats to the United States House of Representatives, which are currently held by seven Democrats and one Republican. This split was maintained after the election.
See main article: 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election. Incumbent Republican governor Larry Hogan was term-limited by the Maryland Constitution and could not run for re-election. He was re-elected in 2018 with 55.4% of the vote.
The Democratic ticket of author Wes Moore and former State Delegate Aruna Miller defeated the Republican ticket of State Delegate Dan Cox and lawyer Gordana Schifanelli, receiving 64.5% of the votes. This was the highest margin of victory by any gubernatorial candidate in Maryland since William Donald Schaefer in 1986.
See main article: 2022 Maryland Comptroller election. Incumbent Comptroller Peter Franchot was eligible to run for a fifth term, but instead ran for Governor of Maryland.[5] Democratic candidates Bowie mayor Tim Adams and state delegate Brooke Lierman,[6] [7] and Republican Harford County executive Barry Glassman,[8] filed to run in the primary election.
Lierman defeated Glassman, receiving 61.56% of the vote.
See main article: 2022 Maryland Attorney General election. Incumbent attorney general Brian Frosh was eligible to run for a third term, but announced on October 21, 2021, that he would be retiring at the end of his term in early 2023.[9] Democratic candidates included U.S. representative and former lieutenant governor Anthony Brown[10] and retired judge and former First Lady of Maryland Katie O'Malley.[11] Republican candidates included former Montgomery County Board of Elections chairman Jim Shalleck[12] and former Anne Arundel County councilmember and 2004 Constitution Party candidate for president Michael Peroutka.[13]
Brown defeated Peroutka by a margin of over 30 percentage points.
See main article: 2022 Maryland Senate election and 2022 Maryland House of Delegates election. All 47 seats in the Maryland Senate and 141 seats in the Maryland House of Delegates are up for election in 2022. Prior to the election, Democrats held a veto-proof majority in both chambers. They retained this majority, gaining seats in both houses.
| Party | Before | After | Change | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 32 | 34 | 2 | ||
| Republican | 15 | 13 | 2 | ||
| Total | 47 | 47 | 47 | ||
| Party | Before | After | Change | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 99 | 102 | 3 | ||
| Republican | 42 | 39 | 3 | ||
| Total | 141 | 141 | |||
See main article: 2022 Maryland county executive elections.
Elections for county executives in eight of Maryland's 23 counties and numerous local elections also took place in 2022. Democratic candidates won county executive elections in Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Howard County, and Anne Arundel County, while Republicans won in Harford County and Wicomico County.
| Description | Result | Yes | No | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| Question 1 | Changes the names of the Maryland Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals to the Appellate Court of Maryland.[14] | Yes | 1,340,952 | 75.0 | 447,252 | 25.0 | |
| Question 2 | Requires state legislative candidates to live in the district in which they are running, effective January 1, 2024.[15] | Yes | 1,684,519 | 90.2 | 183,099 | 9.8 | |
| Question 3 | Raises the state's jury trial threshold from $15,000 to $25,000.[16] | Yes | 1,132,822 | 62.5 | 679,451 | 37.5 | |
| Question 4 | Legalizes and taxes cannabis for adult use, effective July 1, 2023.[17] | Yes | 1,302,161 | 67.2 | 635,572 | 32.8 | |
| Question 5 | Requires Howard County Circuit Court judges to serve as orphans' court judges and removes the election requirement of three orphans' court judges.[18] | Yes | 1,062,187 | 66.8 | 528,000 | 33.2 | |
On Question 4
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Yes | No | Other | Undecided | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpinionWorks[19] | October 20–23, 2022 | 989 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 63% | 25% | – | 12% | |
| University of Maryland[20] | September 22–27, 2022 | 810 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 73% | 23% | – | 4% | |
| Victoria Research[21] | September 11–19, 2022 | 762 (RV) | ± 3.7% | 69% | 20% | 2% | 8% | |
| Goucher College[22] | September 8–12, 2022 | 748 (LV) | ± 3.6% | 59% | 34% | – | 7% |
On whether recreational marijuana should be legal
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Yes | No | Other | Undecided | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goucher College[23] | March 1–6, 2022 | 635 (A) | ± 3.9% | 62% | 34% | 1% | 3% | |
| Goucher College[24] | October 14–20, 2021 | 700 (A) | ± 3.7% | 60% | 33% | 3% | 4% | |
| Gonzales Research (D)[25] | May 17–22, 2021 | 301 (LV) | ± 5.8% | 69% | 24% | 7% | – | |
| Goucher College[26] | February 23–28, 2021 | 725 (A) | ± 3.6% | 67% | 28% | 1% | 4% |
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